Re: Question on Vega

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Nicolas Gauvin (nicolas++at++cae.ca)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:56:49 -0400

Sathyamoorthi Krishnamurthy <ksathya++at++cec.wustl.edu> wrote
>
>Based on the evaluation I did I found Vega and Lynx system work fine with
>Multigen FLT file formats. But they dont perform so good with other file
>formats and even in certain 3ds files I built they produced wrong shapes."

Vega must be using the 3ds loader that comes with Performer. This loader
is not perfect. The a3ds2flt converter from Multigen is not perfect either.
Its seems that writing a full fledge 3ds loader/converter is not a trivial
task. The best results I got came from using the 3dsToIv converter available at
 http://www.sgi.com/Works/translators.html.

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