Re: [Plib-users] Problem loading VRML files using ssg

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Rahul Choudhury wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I downloaded few VRML files from the net and
> was trying to load them using SSG. When I opened the
> VRML files in text editor, they looked normal. But ssg
> failed to load them and gave exception (probably
> because of some null pointer some where). Did any one
> of you guys face this problem ?

Yes - sorry, the VRML loader that comes with PLIB certainly
doesn't work - I should probably take it out of the distribution.

There have been many efforts to come up with a good VRML-1 loader
capability - but so far none of them have been really sucessful.

There is a VRML-97 loader out there that seems to work for
some VRML-97 (aka VRML-2) files - but it won't load VRML-1
and IMHO it's a pain to install so it's not included in the
distro.

Since PLIB is now being used with the Pretty Poly modeller,
there has been renewed interest in getting a good VRML loader
working - I don't know the exact timescale - but if you monitor
the plib-announce or plib-devel mailing lists, you'll get a
better heads-up on that one.

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