Re: [info-performer] vrml loader

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From: Alexandre Naaman (naaman++at++laplace.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 05/07/2002 13:37:28


On Mon, 6 May 2002, Ive Akkermans wrote:

> I know of a way to load VRML files into Performer... Actually, they're
> not very different from IV (Open Inventor) files, so if you have the
> libs installed, things work just fine. Rename your .wrl files to .iv
> and change the header of each ex-wrl file (with any text editor) to:
> #Inventor V2.1 ascii
>
> This works fine for me, hope it helps you out...
>
> greetings,
>
> ive.
>
> ps: i'm not sure, but I think it may only work with vrml 1.0 or 2.0
> files, don't know which one anymore... my guess is 2.0, not 100%
> confident though...

vrml 1.0 is a subset of Inventor (minus a few additional nodes which
rarely get used) whereas vrml 2.0 is a completely different beast and so
using this approach won't work for files that comply to the 2.0 version of
the spec.

A+,

Alex.


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