Ada C. Dong (dong++at++Oakland.edu)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:12:07 -0400 (EDT)
If you want to do something by your own, Dave Pape's "Performer by
Example" will be a good start point. Just add an special Performer class
to handle your lighting operations, then add its instance to the suitable
place of your scene graph.
Dave, could you give us some of your insights on this topic? What is the
current status of the Performer/lighting problem? Is the earth-sky problem
in CAVE related? How about light source? What is the current status of the
CAVERN software related to lighting?
Also, could someone from VRCO give us your insights?
-- Ada Dong
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Joan McLain-Kark wrote:
> John,
>
> What I would be most interested in is how lighting comes into the CAVE with
> this tgs software. So far, we have been pleased with how textures and
> geometry come in but lighting has been pretty bad for interiors work. We
> have a choice of walls being dark and horizontal surfaces lit, everything
> bright and washed out, or diagonal streaks. We have settled for everything
> bright. It works better for dark interiors but textures and colors are not
> perceived correctly.
>
> I also like the idea of user-friendly by placing lights interactively
> rather than doing code--that sounds great for designers.
>
> At 07:43 PM 6/26/98 -0700, 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
> >
> >
>
> Joan McLain-Kark
> Interior Design Program
> Dept. of Near Environments
> Virginia Tech
> Blacksburg, VA 24061-0410
>
>
>
>
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