Re: getting DCS's created when Performer loads Inventor

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Mario Veraart (rioj7++at++fel.tno.nl)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:53:47 +0200 (MET DST)


Bert VandenBerg wrote:
>
> I'm porting a simple animation program written in inventor (to
> performer). I have a number of (heirarchical) .iv data files, and need
> to selectively animate items in the files (identified with "DEF name
> Separator { ... }".
>
> The inventor loader appears to convert each "Separator {}" into a
> pfGroup node. What I need is to have a DCS created which has as its
> child the pfGroup node, so that I can individually animate the items
> contained in "Separators {}".
>
> Is there a type of inventor node that will result in a DCS being created
> in the Performer scenegraph?
>
> I'd like to avoid modifying the Inventor loader.

If you can find the pfGroups in the scene graph just write some code
that will replace this pfGroup with a pfDCS. Just move all children
from the pfGroup to the pfDCS and detach the pfGroup from all its
parents and attach the pfDCS to these parents.

Mario


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