Re: SEC:U Help with finding a node with findnode

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Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:23:52 -0500


Tim,

I think your best bet is the bead callback that Multigen loader supports
to learn more read
/usr/share/Performer/src/lib/libpfdb/libpfflt/README.FLT.R15_3, note if
you have newer or older version of the flight loader the the file name
may be slightly different.

Brian

Tim Fagan wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I'm doing something I would have thought would be
> a walk in the park but I must be missing
> something. I have a little display program that
> shows where pilots are looking in a cockpit - this
> loads fine but I need to find some particular
> polygons for intersection testing. In Multigen I
> have tried naming these as nodes and groups but
> when I load the file with pfdLoad and subsequently
> perform a pfFindNode with the names entered in
> multigen nothing is returned. I have tried using
> the demo 'writeascii' and it doesn't print any of
> the names either . Where have they gone? Do the
> names given in the flt files get removed if the
> geometry is very simple i.e. one polygon?
> Is there some default node name remover I haven't
> disabled or something. Please help as this is
> driving me nuts - the intersection testing works -
> thats where I expected trouble not in the findnode
> routine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
>
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