Randy Stiles (stiles++at++aic.lockheed.com)
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:08:42 -0700
See below for pfdStoreFile() which works on Inventor
files (*.iv as argument)
Jon Christensen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing around with some of the (very nice) tools in
> webspaceauthor, and would like to use this to interactively work
> with some of our performer scenes (setting LOD fade ranges, etc.)
>
> However, it appears that there isn't a store file routine for iv,
> vrml, or something that webspaceauthor would be able to read.
> (We're using performer 2.0). I did see a note in the man pages
> that the intent was to provide a full complement of converter
> routines in the future.
>
> (We're currently creating our models with either Alias, Softimage
> or DWB; DWB has an inventor export feature, but this doesn't handle
> LOD nodes so that we would have to export each LOD model separately
> and then import).
>
> So, does anyone know if there is a pfdStoreFile_iv() in 2.0.1 or
> 2.1? If so, does anyone have a statically bound pfconvert binary
> they could send me?
There is. Gavin Bell (formerly of Inventor group) wrote one,
Jim Helman updated it for Performer 2.0, and I set it up
to work with pfdStoreFile as a DSO. The Ftp URLs are below:
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/Performer/src/pf2.0/pftoiv1.0.tar.Z
Original by Gavin, Jim Helman.
This builds command line executable pftoiv that loads
anything Performer loads, and saves to Inentor 2.x
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/Performer/src/pf2.0/pftoiv1.1.tar.Z
This builds DSO for Inventor allowing pfdStoreFile for
inventor extension to work. In pfstoreiv.C there
is the commented-out main that would build pftoiv as above.
Bug fixes in here as well.
-Randy
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