Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:46:49 -0800
The loader has never provided a polygon (or vertex) callback because it
couldn't track the geometry in the geosets anyways. It doesn't process morph
vertices.
>We've already started on a two-staged approach were we name the created
>geodes using flt-callbacks, then modify the created geodes so that they
>contain fluxes. We have created our own .flt-loader for retrieving coords,
>color, normals and texture coords, discarding all other data.
You'll find that the standard OpenFlight loader is ready to fetch any morph
vertices. I did some feasibility design on morph LOD support a couple years
ago, hoping to use pfMorph and pfCycleBuffers. From that effort I determined
that better Performer mechanisms were needed. Also the pfdGeoBuilder and
pfdTMesher utilities, that loader relies upon these days, cannot be used.
Equivalent morph builders and meshers ought to be written for all to benefit.
I've received only a half dozen requests for morph LOD support in the past 3
years. Therefore it has been a low priority, complex feature waiting to be
implemented.
Regards.
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