Re: .poly and Prisms
hirota++at++trl.ibm.co.jp
Sat, 04 Jun 1994 00:19:49 +0900
> On May 24, 9:45pm, hirota++at++trl.ibm.co.jp wrote:
> > Subject: .poly and Prisms
> :Roughly speaking, Prisms is an animation package like SoftImage or
> :Wavefront, and is developed by a Canadian company, Side Effects
> :Software Inc.
> :
> :The software can save polygon data in an ascii file, whose format is
> :called ".poly".
> :
> :I found in FAQ, that IRIS Performer 1.2 includes a file loader for
> :.poly.
> :
> :Now, is this just coincidence?
>
> Sadly, it is just that. I would never have named my polyhedron
> file format ".poly" if I had realized that Prisims uses ".poly" and
> ".bpoly". I'll rename the "/usr/src/Performer/friends/models/poly"
> datasets to something else (".euclid" ?) for the next release of
> IRIS Performer.
>
> I later recieved information about Prisims and a working loader
> for Prisims files into IRIS Performer does now exist. We will be
> working with Side Effects to get this support released for those
> users who use their modeling tools.
>
> This will be important since Prisims provides such complete
> support for animated characters and that's a big topic now
> in the many companies where IRIS Performer is being used to
> build interactive entertainment applications.
>
> Let me know if you want to help test the Prisims loaders.
>
Of course I want. I have a data set from Veiwpoint in .poly format, so
first of all, I'd like to try it. Prisms itself will be available for
us soon, then more intensive tests will be possible.
Thanks
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Gentaro Hirota
IBM Japan, Ltd.
e-mail : hirota++at++trl.ibm.co.jp
telephone : +81-462-73-4926
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