Re: Billboards using LoadFlt

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Marcus (Marcus++at++multigenuunet.UU.NET)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:45:47 PST

        Reply to: RE>Billboards using LoadFlt
>Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:21:16 -0400
>From: Jimmie J Rohrer <jrohrer++at++afit.af.mil>
>Message-Id: <199409281621.AA14867++at++stealth.afit.af.mil>
>To: info-performer++at++sgi.com
>Subject: Billboards using LoadFlt
>Cc: jrohrer++at++afit.af.mil
>
> Does anyone happen to have any sample code using flight format
>files as a source for a billboard? We have been unsuccessful in our
>attempts.
>
> We are using LoadFlt and we have tried typecasting that to a
>pfBillboard - that didn't work. We also tried typecasting LoadFlt to
>a pfGeode and then extracting its pfGeoSet and inserting it into a
>pfBillboard, but we couldn't get the pfGeoSet.

Typecasting the return from LoadFlt() like this isn't recommended.

> Any suggestions or examples would be appreciated.
>
> JJ Rohrer and Jim Kestermann

Axial billboards are specified in Flight at the face level.
In MultiGen: model a face about the origin (seen from -Y)
, select modify attributes, check "Template Axis" (same
as axial billboard). To place the billboard off the origin,
insert a [T] matrix in the object or group above the face
and translate from the origin to the desired location.
You don't want to translate the vertices directly.

For more information, please contact MultiGen Product Support
at (408) 261 4110 or multigen!techsupport++at++uunet.UU.NET.

Regards,
Marcus Barnes, Member Technical Staff
MultiGen Inc., 1884 The Alameda, San Jose CA, 95126
PH: (408) 261 4110 FX: (408) 247 4329
EMAIL: multigen!marcus++at++uunet.UU.NET

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