Re: [info-performer] pfa format documentation

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: Donald Tidrow (dtidrow++at++patriot.net)
Date: 08/11/2003 22:49:49


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Dennen, Kevin M Mr. ERC wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Can anyone point me to documentation on the pfa format? I would really like
> to know what all these fields are and how they control the behavior of the
> model.
>

Realistically, pfa is not really human-readable or -editable. However,
it does somtimes come in handy when you just want to tweak a few
parameters in a material or texture definition. The only real source of
documentation is, literally, the source -
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpfpfb.

The .pfa format is really just an ASCII version of .pfb, and both the .pfa
and .pfb loader code is contained in pfpfb.[ch]. It's not exactly the
easiest code to read, but it's not hard to figure out what's going on.
Start with the function pfdLoadFile_pfa(filename).

Don

---
In October 1997, three computer lab staffers 
disappeared from the server room while debugging
a mysterious router problem.

One year later, their packet logs were found...

The Blair Switch Project

-------------------- | Don Tidrow | | Vis-Sim Geek | --------------------


Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Aug 11 2003 - 22:51:42 PDT