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Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight
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Brent Gulanowski |
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Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight |
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Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:38:37 -0500 |
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 05:21 AM, Gerard Iglesias wrote:
Hi,
Maybe we have a good reason to make a usefull application based on
3DKit. This application would be able to read a rib file then render
it with the 3Dkit engine, then allow some kind of modification and
allow also to render it with 3Delight, it is free of charge for non
commercial use, it is very good, don't you think ?
I think there are lots of good reasons to make applications based on
3DKit!
Reading a RIB file will require an import facility, to convert it to
the native 3DKit representation. The design of 3DKit should be able to
handle that easily enough, but someone will have to write the import
plug-in. My understanding is that we will initially use text and binary
serializations of the internal data types for our file formats, similar
to what was in v0.3. Plug-ins for import form/export to other file
formats would also be good.
In order to render using 3Delight, we would need to use RenderMan API
internally, correct? I haven't seen any indication (from Phil) that the
G3DRenderAction (and complementary OpenGL Renderer bundle) included in
RenderKit will use the actual RenderMan API, which means this
application would need to provide a custom render Action to do so.
Again, the design anticipates this, but I doubt it will be present when
the RenderKit is put back into CVS. I think, however, that it would do
great things for 3DKit's reception if a realistic proposal is made to
do what you are suggesting.
Hopefully Phil can enlighten us some more on his intentions. (nudge,
nudge, wink, wink :-)
Brent Gulanowski
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- [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Gerard Iglesias, 2003/01/15
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2003/01/16
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Thorsten Kohnhorst, 2003/01/16
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2003/01/16
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Brent Gulanowski, 2003/01/16
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2003/01/17
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Gerard Iglesias, 2003/01/17
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] 3DeLight, Gerard Iglesias, 2003/01/19