Light ROM 4/Light ROM 4 - Disc 1.iso/text/net_news/1995/010895.doc/text0126.txt

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In article <3evsri$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Daniel J. McCoy) says:
>I suppose this path translation type of thing would be done with a plug-in.
>Would the translations also be done to the object files themselves that may
>contain surface image maps?

Not necessarily a plug-in, although any LW scene-reading plug-in may
need to perform a similar translation.  Obviously, this functionality
needs to be in LightWave itself, when it reads Amiga-created scenes
that have been moved to the PC or SGI, as well as in tools like
InterChange that also process LW scene files.

>With all the scene and object files I've downloaded or gotten off of various
>CDs, I've been thinking of doing a standalone thing that would scan both
>scene files and object files to correct the paths.  All objects and image
>maps that weren't in the directory they were specified to be then be looked
>for in the directory the scene file is in.  If not there, it'd scan
>pre-determined paths for objects or images with that same name.  The scene
>files are easy to correct.  The object files require IFF parsing, something
>I haven't fiddled with yet.  :)

Yes, perhaps this should be handled by a standalone utility.  I think
any "guessing" approach will have bugs, and will be confounded by
user errors.  I'm quite familiar with the problems that existing Toaster
users have with moving files between platforms, and I think they're
going to be compounded with the move to other platforms.  For Amiga
users, perhaps the answer is a tool for the Amiga side that wraps
together all the necessary files for a project and moves them safely
into a Zip file for extraction on the PC side.