Re: TOOLS: Home Space Builder, VRML browsers & textures

Mike Heck ([email protected])
Wed, 24 May 95 23:40:51 -0700


James wrote:
> WebSpace supports Textures, and they even work. Assuming that they
> continue to work in the Win 3.1 release, which I don't know why they
> wouldn't, that would seem to answer your question.
>
> Btw, here's a question -- I heard something along the lines that
> WebSpace for the SGI supports rgb and gif textures, but that the Win NT
> release only supports rgb textures. That seems strange, so I put it
> out here for comment -- true?

That's true for now. To support GIF, SGI used a utility library that
only exists on SGI machines. We have to write our own and we haven't
gotten around to it yet (and yes I know several places where we can
find sample code to do it :-).

-Mike
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