Re: 3DeLight

In fact I made this suggestion because I understood that Phil planned 
to make the rib file format the native file format for 3DKit.

If it is not the case, this kind of app is less important to do.

And I was speaking about 3DKit --> save rib file --> 3Delight can use 
it to render it, we need only to have import/export as rib file.

	Gerard

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote:

> 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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