Re: SCS Nodes in OpenFlt
Princess Interactive (Princess-Support++at++t-online.de)
Wed, 28 Jan 98 13:51 +0100
Marcus Barnes schrieb:
> On Jan 27, 6:36pm, princess support wrote:
> >I have a model which was converted from a different file format to OpenFlight
> >14.2. The model includes some externals. All of these externals do have
> matrix
> >operations applied to them. What does the OpenFlt loader do with these nodes.
>
> for untransformed external references it creates a pfGroup. for transformed
> external references it creates a pfSCS. by default the loader calls pfFlatten
> which would apply the SCS leaving it with an identity matrix. also by default,
> the loader will clean the scene graph of unneccesary pfNodes. any identity
> pfSCS's will be deleted.
>
> >Is there any possibility to tell the loader or even perfly to do that.
>
> # performer 2.x environment
> # tell perfly and loader not to optimize the scene graph too much
> # you will see all pfSCS nodes created by the loader
> perfly -Q0 -y flt,1,0 -y flt,2,0 file.flt
>
> Regards.
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Thanks a lot for the quick answer.
Now I have another question concerning this issue.
Is it possible, for example with "pfdConverterMode" within your Performer
application, to tell the loader not to flatten the database tree. Exactly what I
did with your command line.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Christoph.
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