Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] Strings and parameter lists

[Gerard Iglesias]

Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> Well, you could do that, but the beauty IMHO would be to have an API 
> which permits you to render a RIB directly. But I am not sure we want 
> this at all because first, the 3DKit is a scene graph and should thus 
> work this way and not directly via renderer bypassing the scene graph 
> and second, we would then have to make sure to at least understand 
> everything which is in a RIB. 

Sure that it would not be a simple task, RIB file can contains very rich 
things, like animation, and I am not sure that 3DKit would manipulate 
animation natively for example.

But if we can parse rib file to get tree of geometry node il will be a 
good start :)

> But having a render action which does produce a RIB would be cool as 
> you could then process this further using other, already existing 
> tools. As an example you could simply pipe the 3DKit's output into 
> other CLI renderers' input. 


Sure, and I think that it would be not so difficult to do so, a lot 
simpler than parsing a rib file.


I am exploring PCCTS/ANTLR to parse the rib file format, seems to be 
very interesting to use it, any experience ?

Best regards

   Gerard