John L. Smith (john++at++g3.net)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:05:58 -0400
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John L. Smith
Digital Artist
G3 Systems, Inc.
1800 Kraft Drive, Suite 100
Blacksburg,VA 24060
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilfred Janssen [mailto:wilfred++at++sara.nl]
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 1998 6:04 AM
> To: David Story
> Cc: kelso++at++vt.edu; cave++at++bleen.sv.vt.edu; john++at++g3.net;
> cavernus++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu; info-performer++at++sgi.com; steve++at++vail.cam.nist.gov
> Subject: Re: [CAVERNUS] Re: VRML2->Inventor, TGS software
>
>
> David Story wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Cosmo Worlds is nice but the last time I checked it, it didn't have the
> possibility to dump out scenes in a file format that can be read by
> Performer. (other than VRML 2.0 off course). And I think this need was
> the origin of this thread. Is that changed now??
>
> Regards,
>
> Wilfred
>
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