From: John Breedlove (jbreedlo++at++cs.ucf.edu)
Date: 04/17/2003 17:50:53
Sandeep,
Change your texture files to .rgb format and it should be fine (you'll have
to reapply them in 3d studio also). If you don't have a good program to
convert your files, I find that GIMP works well. You can download it at
http://www.gimp.org/win32
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandeep M" <ssm_lists++at++yahoo.com>
To: <info-performer++at++sgi.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:17 PM
Subject: [info-performer] 3ds files with Performer for Windows
> I'm running Performer 3.0.1 under Windows XP. I'm
> having some problems with reading in 3d models that
> are in the 3D studio (.3ds) format. Specifically,
> textures don't load. I get some error about not being
> able to use IL to load the textures. This is rather
> problematic, because most of the models we have for
> the application we're developing are in the 3DS
> format.
>
> What workarounds are there for this problem? I tried
> using pfconv to convert the .3ds file to a .flt file,
> but that didn't change the texture format.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sandeep
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo
> http://search.yahoo.com
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> List Archives, Info, FAQ: http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/
> Open Development Project: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/performer/
> Submissions: info-performer++at++sgi.com
> Admin. requests: info-performer-request++at++sgi.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Apr 17 2003 - 17:55:17 PDT