[vtkusers] VRML Reader

[Chris Scharver]

>At 3:15 AM +0000 on 03/21/2003, ramu  chandran wrote:
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>>              I found that vtkVRMLImporter supports VRML Version 2.0. Are there any VRMl readers which support VRML Version 1.0? Kindly suggest.
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>Take a look at the vtkIVWriter class. It writes Inventor v2.0 files. You can then simply change the header from "# Inventor v2.0 ascii" to "VRML v1.0 ascii" and I think it should be fine.

Duh... I just realized that you were asking about the reader, not the writer. That should teach me to respond to mail before I've had my coffee!

As for parsing VRML 1, I don't think there's a current way to do that. I use Coin3d and TGS Inventor to manually read Inventor/VRML1, and then I manually flatten the scene graph before sending it to VTK.

You could also just convert the VRML1 files to VRML2, and that may be the easier route to go.

Chris
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