Re: VRML2->Inventor, TGS software

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David Story (story++at++bent.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:43:01 -0700 (PDT)

> Hi all,
>
> Dennis Jones and Dennis Cafiero here at Tech have come across a
> potentially wonderful program by a company called TGS- www.tgs.com. They
> are just beginning to check it out, but it seems to offer the ability to
> read in VRML2 files, complete with animation, as well as 3Dstudio and
> other formats, and to interactively place lights, textures, animation and
> then dump them out as inventor files. I just saw an animated inventor
> file moving around in the CAVE, as loaded by pfnav. Neat!
>
> I'll send the list more information as we figure things out. Anyone else
> out there have any experience with the TGS software?

Sure, but you should really check out Cosmo Worlds, written by many of
the folks who wrote Inventor itself. http://cosmosoftware.com/

Cosmo Worlds 2.0 is on store shelves now
(http://cosmosoftware.com/purchase), for the Win95/NT platform, and
has won numerous awards in the last few months.

Dave Story
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