Re: [info-performer] pfTexture

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From: Allan Schaffer (allan++at++sgi.com)
Date: 07/29/2004 18:57:16

Hi Arya,

Arya Iranmanesh wrote:
> Why is PFTEX_RGB_8 not mentioned in the man pages for pfTexture? It
> this format not officially supported?

No reason for it to be missing that I can see - this looks to be an
oversight. I did a quick grep and noticed that a few other tokens aren't
mentioned either. We'll add that to the list for 3.2 (SCR 918817).

> Also, for cubic environment
> mapping, is there any way to set Performer to render to a texture
> (thereby allowing 6 different angles of the scene to be rendered to the
> six face of a cubic texture map and give realistic reflections)?

Have a look at the 'envmap' paper on the Performer website, it describes a
technique for this:
http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/brew/pdfs/envmap.pdf

Enjoy,
Allan 

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Allan Schaffer                                            allan++at++sgi.com
Engr. Dept. Manager, Visual Systems Group                1-650-933-2160
Silicon Graphics                                     http://www.sgi.com

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