Re: [info-performer] These damn propritory file formats!

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From: Paolo Farinelli (paolo++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/21/2003 11:43:48

Hi,

you may want to check out polytrans from www.okino.com.
I believe it should be able to convert your .3ds models to .flt.

Regards,
Paolo

Tone Milazzo wrote:

>Getting Performer to read graphics databases has been a Sisyphean ordeal
>for me.
>
>Goal: I have .3ds objects, with textures, that I want to use in Performer
>under linux. Does anyone know how to do this?
>
>Performer 2.5.2 under linux
>
>This is what I've tried so far:
>
>I started with 3ds (3d Studio Max) objects, but I have no idea how to load
>the textures along with the objects and the objects I use appear solid
>white.
>
>The other api I'm using is Diguy from Boston Dynamics which uses
>OpenFlight objects for it's graphics so I looked into converting .3ds to
>.flt. I heard that Maya (from Alias) makes that conversion and the San
>Diego Supercomputer Center here on campus has SGI Octanes running Maya.
>After jumping through the appropriate hoops I was able to get on one of
>these system only to discover that you need a plugin to load .3ds files.
>And that plugin isn't available for Maya 4.5 on Irix.
>
>Then I tried converting the .3ds files to .wrl vrml files. Well I used a
>program called ac3d (www.ac3d.org) to make the conversion into vrml and
>something is funny along the way. I installed the sgi-open Inventor rpms
>that it says it needs to open vrml files but they still aren't loading.
>But ac3d can't seem to open .wrl files that it just made so I'm not very
>confident that ac3d is converting to vrml correctly.
>
>-tone
>
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Paolo Farinelli                                           paolo++at++sgi.com
Member of Technical Staff, OpenGL Performer              1-650-933-1808
Silicon Graphics        1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043

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