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which 3D-API to use?

Post by Oliver Bau » Sat, 08 Dec 2001 18:25:27



Hi!

I'm working on my diploma thesis and am looking for a 3D-API with this
features:

- Open Source
- C++
- VRML97-import
- scene graph architecture
- extensibility (designing/defining new nodes)
- runs under Win32 (MS Visual C++)
- runs in MFC-applications

I already worked with TGS OpenInventor at my university and it fulfils
many (in fact almost all) of the above criteria, but it is not Open
Source :-(.

Coin3D looks quite good, but the SoWin-Classes are in alpha-state and it
does not (yet) support VRML97. Version 2 including this is announced for
Q2 2002, what is too late for me.

OpenSG needs the Intel Compiler and does not run with the MS
VisualC++-Compiler.

OpenVRML? What about extensibility there?

Any further ideas?

Thx 4 Ur help!

        -oli-
(student electrical engineering
  / electronic media technology

 
 
 
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which 3D-API to use?

Post by » Sat, 08 Dec 2001 19:43:13



> Coin3D looks quite good, but the SoWin-Classes are in alpha-state and it
> does not (yet) support VRML97.

Is there a converter from VRML-2 to VRML-1 that one can use to preprocess
files for loading in Coin?


 
 
 
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which 3D-API to use?

Post by Oliver Bau » Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:26:33



> Is there a converter from VRML-2 to VRML-1 that one can use to preprocess
> files for loading in Coin?

No, this is no solution for me. I need the support for VRML97-nodes in
the API itself - similar to TGS OpenInventor.

Besides that, "new nodes" in the VRML-file (i.e. nodes NOT being in the
VRML-specification) have to be imported, too. These "new nodes" should
correspond to (C++)classes in my program.

Any other ideas? What about OpenVRML?

Thx,

        -oli-

 
 
 
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which 3D-API to use?

Post by Zsolt Mar » Sun, 09 Dec 2001 08:21:51


Quote:>I'm working on my diploma thesis and am looking for a 3D-API with this
>features:
>Any further ideas?

Try
http://www.vrsource.org/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=26&mode=&orde...

They had a survey their about scenegraphs, followed by quite an
interesting discussion.

Zsolti

 
 
 
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