Todd R Pravata (tpravata++at++rts.dseg.ti.com)
Fri, 19 Jan 96 11:11:06 CST
> > And what about that `Inventor writer' facility I once
> > heard of?
>
> Gavin Bell has been working on an Performer-to-Inventor
> converter that would also enable Performer scenes as IV files.
> Neither of our groups has had time to finish the converter up
> since we're both in the final stages of release. When we
> finish it up, we'll put it out for FTP.
>
> Performer 2.0's loader DSO system now supports the notion of
> writing scenes as well as reading them, i.e. you can do
> pfdLoadFile(), pfdStoreFile() or in-memory conversions where
> supported pfdConverTo(), pfdConvertFrom(). In 2.0, the
> Inventor converter DSO only supports pfdLoadFile() and
> pfdConvertFrom(). With the addition of Gavin's stuff, the
> updated version will support all four operations.
>
> -jim helman
>
> Subject: Re: Performer 2.0 questions
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> On Feb 9, 4:14pm, Robert Reif wrote:
> > Subject: Performer 2.0 questions
>
> :3. A way to save a node hierarchy to disk for re-reading later, or preferably
> :to some of the supported input formats to allow editing. You could then use
> :Performer to write a file conversion program.
>
> You can do this now, of course. Several companies have written such
> programs, and at least one has been made available for public FTP.
> The only issue here is more business than technical, in that at least
> one of the loaders provided with IRIS Performer clearly prohibits
> this translation and export step. So you would not want to convert
> files in that format without permission.
>
> This prohibition aside, I imagine that future versions of Performer will
> have integrated support for exporting data in at least four formats:
> OpenInventor, Alias, Wavefront, and a fast-loading Performer format.
> These will not all be available in the next release, though.
>
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