Hi Gregory, The j3f file format generated by the Java3D SceneGraphFileReader and Writer classes is not documented in a way which lends itself to writing exporters directly to the file format, especially from another language. The format is opaque.
I'd always envisaged using Java3D and the utility classes themselves as part of any exporter. For example, if I was to write a 3DS Max Exporter Plugin. I'd write the Max plugin in C to actually launch a JVM, I'd then use the 3DS Plugin API to extract the Max scene graph and build a Java3D scene graph within the VM. Once the Java scene graph was complete I'd use the utility API to write the j3f file. Rgds Paul ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul Byrne Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Phone : (650) 786 9926 Visualization Software Group Fax : (650) 786 5852 ---------------------------------------------------------- >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:32:38 -0500 >From: "Pierce, Gregory (TBS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] Exporting to Native Java3D format >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi folks, yeah I'm at it again.This time I'm getting ready to write exporters for the Java3D native file format that's talked about somewhat in SDK1.3. Can anyone point me to some documentation that tells me how to generate that file format? =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
