Re: town.flt in town demo

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:08:43 -0700

On Jul 25, 9:05pm, David Chan wrote:
> Subject: town.flt in town demo
> Hi,
> when i using perfly to load town.flt, the other .flt files will
> also loaded in, how it can do that? and when these database loaded in,
> they are placed in a right position, is it any trick for doing such effect?
> or just a function of mutigen when creating model. If Alias|Wavefront are
> used to build 3D model, can same effect be archived?

OpenFlight supports the instancing of models and databases. The town is made
up of hundreds of instances, like the trees and the buildings. There are two
kinds of instancing at work in this database: internal and external. Internal
instances are models within a database file that are referenced one or more
times from within the same database. External instances are references from
one database file to another. In both types of instancing, each instantiation
can be transformed to a new location and/or orientation (and even scale).

Regards.

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