From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 07/14/2003 22:33:13
Hi Gregory,
Gregory Little wrote:
> I am, for now, using the free download version of Performer for Windows,
> 3.02; Windows XPPro.
> I cannot load any *.iv files into perfly, I know I have loaded inventor
> files in irix and I think linux versions.
Yep; this is vaguely complicated so I'll explain -- the Inventor loader
in Performer actually uses the Inventor library itself to load/parse the
iv file, and then does a traversal through the scene graph (using
Inventor functions) to tesselate everything and put it into the pfdBuilder.
So to get this working you must have a copy of the Inventor DSOs (or
DLLs) loaded on your system. IRIX ships that way by default; on Linux,
if you install the Inventor DSOs I think everything works out; but on
Windows there are just some missing bits that make the picture incomplete.
It's one of our many loader-update to-do items, that we do intend to
take care of; however (!!) if there are any folks out there with spare
time and a desire for the everlasting honor and glory of doing so :-),
everything you (or we) will need to put this all together is included in ..
- The open-source version of Inventor (http://oss.sgi.com/)
- Performer's Inventor loader (also http://oss.sgi.com/)
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com Engr. Manager, Core Rendering 1-650-933-2160 Silicon Graphics http://www.sgi.com
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