Svend Tang-Petersen (svend++at++rex.copen.sgi.com)
Sun, 5 May 1996 11:33:10 +0200
>
> I have read that SGI Explorer can be used with Inventor to create an
> Inventor file which Performer can read - does anyone know how to go about
> doing this?
>
Yes this is possible and in fact simple. The geometry that is being fed into
the render module is Inventor since this is Explorers internal format.
What you have to do is to feed a copy of the geometry into a 'write geometry'
module.
If you are using the 'displace lattice' module you'll have to change sign on
the displacement parameter (if I remember correctly).
PLEASE NOTICE: this is not the best way to visualize large terrains in
Performer
since you'll get a vertex for each pixel in your image, and there no LOD
(level of detail) generated in Explorer. (Escape to something like MultiGen).
--Regards Svend
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