Re: Loading of Costumized OpenFlight files ...

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:04:13 -0700

On Apr 13, 1:56pm, Rejean Chartrand wrote:
>I would like to know how the OpenFlight loader deals with files that
>contains customized beads.

It skips extension records, just as it skips any other records it doesn't
process.

>I was told that the OpenFlight loader does not use the MultiGen Data API,

Correct. The loader is a separate code base that has been codeveloped and
shared between SGI and MGI since before Performer 1.0.

>so how does it know about new bead types and specially how to interpret them
>(does it throw them out or what) ?

It currently "throws them out" as you say.

Regards.

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