At 09:11 AM 4/15/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It uses the Performer loaders
>to read the file and produces "100% VRML 97 compliant output". It will also
>optionally convert all the texture files to PNG or JPG and claims to produce
>efficient VRML.
> I can imagine that writing a J3d loader for .flt format would be difficult
>since the Performer loaders are likely to only be available under IRIX
There are standalone translators for Windows such as Viewpoint Interchange
<http://www.viewpoint.com/> that will read Flight and convert to many
formats including VRML 97. The Open Flight format is documented, so in
theory someone could write a Java loader or saver. I wrote the
Flight translator in Interchange. The spec is tricky because there are
a number of historicisms in the Flight format. It's evolved over
a long period of time. I think I was the first person to write a
Flight translator from scratch as opposed to using the Performer
loader or other sample code. I submitted a number of corrections to
the docs.
- John
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