Re: standard units for model/terrain files?

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:33:29 -0800

On Feb 24, 10:52am, Christopher R Volpe wrote:
>
> Followup question: Is there a format-independent interface for obtaining
> such information? (I.e. does Performer specify a loader function that
> specific loaders should comply with so that application developers can
> obtain such information in a format-independent way much like the
> format-independent way in which application can load files?)

Nope. The entire loader api is documented under pfdLoadFile(3). Perhaps
pfdConverterMode(3) could specify some standard tokens for database units, but
not all (most?) source formats have that information.

Regards.

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