Re: [Plib-devel] VRML Loader issues

[Chris P. <cj...@lo...>]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:45:22AM -0500, Steve Baker wrote:

> Gil Carter wrote:

> > So what do people think - VRML1 or VRML97 first?

> When Chris sent me the first beta VRML97 loader, I searched high and low
> on the web looking for VRML97 models to test it against - the only ones
> I *ever* found were on the main VRML organisations's pages!

> I conclude that VRML2/97 is a failed standard that hardly anyone actually
> uses.

> Hence - since there are quite a few VRML-1 models around and LOTS of tools
> support it, then we should go with that.  Who knows, we might even get
> an OpenInventor loader out of it 'for free' and with packages like COIN
> floating around, this could become useful.

This is not what I've found.  Almost all the VRML I've found on the web
recently has been VRML2.  And all the VRML I want to use has been VRML2.
However I've yet to find anything that'll convert a VRML2 file into
something I can import into anything.  The only one I found is to the
povray format but I've not found anything to convert from that.

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