Dsp Ivloader

This isn't my plugin, so I have little to say about it. I'm not sure from whom it came, but it's a loader for OpenInventor files. It works fine for models, as long as the models don't have any textures. Material information, such as shininess or specular rgb values will work ok, but it'll hang when trying to process any texture.

Here's the loader. Enjoy!

Attach:dsp_ivloader.so
Attach:libInventor.so
Attach:libInventorXt.so

And, once you have all the plugins that you need, maybe you'd like to have something useful, like a chute model, or a plume model. Here's a bunch of models that you can play with.
Attach:chutemainfull.iv
Attach:chuteroguefull.iv
Attach:RcsPlume.iv

If you want some other chute models, just let me know. Note that these chutes can have textures, but the plugin doesn't currently support them. Once it does, the chutes will look much better than they do now. I can, upon request, upload the textures.

You can view the models above by using ivview, part of the OpenInventor toolkit. You can find the toolkit at its sgi home: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/.

NOTE to author (02/21/2007): I used this plugin and it works great… however, it is trying to load every model that is passed to it, instead of checking to see if the model is in fact an inventor model. If it isn't, the plugin should "pass-the-buck" on it so that DOUG knows to pass it to the next loader. —FG