David Story (story++at++bent.engr.sgi.com)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:36:16 -0700 (PDT)
Dave Story
> Cosmo 2.0 does export .iv files, but does not convert all nodes. Such as
> animation, nav info, etc.
>
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> John L. Smith
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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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