Re: Performer 2.0 and 3DS file

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Gazza (G.Hunt++at++bath.ac.uk)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:16:07 +0100 ()

On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Michael T. Jones wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2:03pm, Gazza wrote:
>
> > Just got our new Max Impact with Performer 2.0. I'm completely new to
> > Performer and I'm not a programmer (yet... that's the next step!).
> > Anyway, I've noticed in this list archive of the last few months that
> > other people have had the same problem loading 3DStudio files into perfly.
> >
> > What I haven't noticed, however, are any answers that are helpful to me,
> > perhaps people have been answering via private email. Anyway, if anyone
> > has any ideas as to how to get it working, I'd be more than pleased to
> > find out, as we have a number of 3ds files that we want to view.
>
> IRIS Performer's 3DStudio loader uses the SGI ImageVision Library (IL)
> to load the 3DS file's textures. Due to this, when we compiled the 3DS
> loader, we specified that it needed the IL libraries (-lil -lcil) at
> runtime. When people have problems with 3DS file, it seems that it's
> due to that fact that they did not load the "il_eoe" subsystem from
> their IRIX CD. Load this subsystem, and you should be fine.
>
> Michael Jones

Michael.

Just checked, and we definately have il_eoe loaded on the system. Not all
of it, but the following: il_eoe.man.il il_eoe.man.relnotes il_eoe.sw.c++
il_eoe.sw.fit il_eoe.sw.gif il_eoe.sw.jfif il_eoe.sw.photocd il_eoe.sw.sgi
il_eoe.sw.tiff

I assume there is some other problem then? THe error message I get is as
follows:

smack:absgh:/usr/share/Performer/data>perfly crater.3ds
PF Warning: pfdFindConverterDSO() - Could not load DSO for extension "3ds"
PF Info: All 1 processors available on this machine.
PF Warning: pfdFindConverterDSO() - Could not load DSO for extension "3ds"
PF Warning: pfdLoadFile() - Unable to load file crater.3ds because of problem finding pfdLoadFile_3ds
PF Notice: WARNING: could not load "crater.3ds"

Now, I have checked, and there are certainly the following files on the
machine:

smack:absgh:/usr/share/Performer/data>find / -name "*3ds*" -mount -print
/usr/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds.so
/usr/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds_igl.so
/usr/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds_ogl.so
/usr/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds_igl.so.2
/usr/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds_ogl.so.2
/usr/lib/Performer/Debug/libpfdb/libpf3ds_igl.so
/usr/lib/Performer/Debug/libpfdb/libpf3ds_ogl.so
/usr/lib/Performer/Debug/libpfdb/libpf3ds_igl.so.2
/usr/lib/Performer/Debug/libpfdb/libpf3ds_ogl.so.2
/usr/share/Performer/data/crater.3ds
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds/3dsftk
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds/3dsftk/3dsftk.a
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds/libpf3ds
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds/libpf3ds/3dsftk.h
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpf3ds/libpf3ds/pf3ds.c

Which have '3ds' somewhere in their name.

So, anything else that has gone hideously wrong?

THanks for any help

Gary

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