Re: OpenFlight

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++bitch.reading.sgi.com)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:45:13 +0100

It'd be simpler and probably more portable to querry the scene graph as loaded,
that way you could support any file format which you have a performer loader
for. You could delete the loaded graph afterwards if you don't need it.

On Apr 29, 10:25am, Gene McKenna wrote:
> Subject: OpenFlight
> I am trying to read a flight file so that I can copy my
> geometry data into my own data format for collision detection,
> but I'm having trouble.
>
> I have a copy of MultiGen's OpenFlight spec, but I find it to
> be somewhat lacking. (One little example couldn't be too hard
> to include, you would think.)
>
> A call to MultiGen proved fruitless. I can't imagine that they
> don't have a simple parsing code, even just a text dump would
> be great. Do they really want this to be an open format?
>
> For the ridiculous price of MultiGen's software, one would think that
> help in using their now "open" file format would be a little easier
> to come by.
>
> OK, enough MultiGen bashing.
>
> Anyone know where I might find a flight parser, or a better written
> spec?
>
> GENE
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Gene McKenna

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Angus Dorbie,
The Reality Centre,
Silicon Graphics Ltd, UK
dorbie++at++reading.sgi.com

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