From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 11/20/2003 04:32:08
My experience with the pfdGeoBuilder is that you load the
triangles/polygons and the Builder uses pfdTMesher to make optimized
tristrips.If you have tristrips just load them into the GeoSets.
Brian
John Kelso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a file loader, and one of the primitives I want to load is a
> tristrip. I have code that does this just fine by creating my own geoset
> and sticking it into a geode.
>
> But, I'd like the file loader to use pfdBuilder and pfdGeoBuilder. This
> might be a dumb question, but I don't see how to load a tristrip. I got it
> to work by breaking the tristrip into triangles, and also by converting the
> tristrip into a polygon, just to be sure I was doing the boilerplate
> correctly.
>
> Can someone send me a pointer about how to best load a geoset (with my tristrip
> data) into the pfdGeoBuilder, or better yet, how to use the pfdGeoBuilder
> functions to load a tristrip?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -John
>
>
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