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From: Marvin Landis <marvinl@amber.rc.arizona.edu>
Subject: Lightwave to Inventor converter for SGI owners
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For those of you SGI owners who are anxiously awaiting the release of SGI
Lightwave, here's something that might help keep you occupied for a couple
days. I have written a simple Lightwave to Open Inventor 3D object converter,
and it can be found at tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu:/pub/LW/utils/lwtoiv.tar.Z (it
should also appear soon in the converters directory at avalon). I wrote it so
that I can preview Lightwave objects on the SGI here at work, before I take
them home to my trusty old Amiga. Here is an excerpt from the Readme file,
maybe some of you other SGI'ers will find it useful.
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This directory contains a fairly simplistic 3D object conversion program to
convert from the Lightwave 3D object file format into Open Inventor 2.0 files.
It was developed on an SGI, and the source will only compile on a machine with
C++ and the Open Inventor developer's option installed. For those people
without C++ or the Open Inventor developer's option, I have included an
executable that should run on any SGI machine running IRIX 5.3 that supports
OpenGL and Open Inventor.
USAGE
The Lightwave object file name is read from the command line, and the
Open Inventor file is output to stdout.
So to create an ascii Open Inventor object from an existing Lightwave file,
just type something like:
lwtoiv lightwave_file >inventor_file
I created this converter so I could use my SGI at work to preview many of
the lightwave objects I download from various ftp sites on the internet. So
to quickly preview a Lightwave object, try this:
lwtoiv lightwave_file | ivview
or
lwtoiv lightwave_file | /usr/demos/Inventor/gview
--
Marvin Landis
marvinl@amber.rc.arizona.edu
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