Re: Perplexed in Providence

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Rob Jenkins (robj++at++quid)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:33:42 -0700

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On Oct 3, 7:23am, msitech wrote:
> Subject: Perplexed in Providence
> Hello fellow artists!
>
> I've been following your continued attempts with "Inventor" and its
> compatibility with
>
> performer and perfly.....so I tried it myself and I examined a .iv file
> running in Perfly.
>
> My question is: can a ".iv" file and its attributes be converted into a
> ".flt" file??
>

There are a couple of IvTo.. utilities, I don't think SGI has done IvToFlt,
Multigen ( or someone ) might have....

The ones I know of are:
IvToRib (1) - convert an Open Inventor 2.0 file to a Renderman .rib file
ivToVRML (1) - convert Inventor files to VRML

One note, the Performer utility pfconv will read any of the formats supported
by Performer and can write to:

         dwb Coryphaeus Software Designer's Workbench format
         medit Medit productions modeler format
         pfa IRIS Performer ASCII file format
         pfb IRIS Performer high-speed binary file format

Which might help you if you want to make all your data the same format.

> 2. Where can I get a copy of "Inventor", is it Showcase that I already
> have??
>

No, Showcase just uses Inventor. Inventor is an API in it's own right, the .iv
format is just it's file format. You would have inventor_eoe installed, the
development libraries are a seperate SGI product.

For more Inventor info look at: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Inventor.html

Cheers
Rob

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