> Michael, I'd like to try to do an exporter to RIB for use in the free
> 3Delight engine. Any docs you can throw my way?

Do you mean docs for the RIB format, or do you mean docs for doing a MoI exporter?

There aren't any docs for the latter right now, because MoI doesn't yet have a pluggable system for doing exporters yet.


> Or would you suggest trying to read the 3DM file format instead and converting that to RIB?

At some point in the future when MoI does have a plug-in system for doing exporters (not really sure when this will happen), I was thinking of exposing the NURBS data to plugins in the 3DM/OpenNURBS format.

So that would be pretty much equivalent to doing a standalone 3dm2rib.exe type converter anyway, so that would probably work well as a first step.

The OpenNURBS toolkit is pretty straightforward for reading .3dm files - you can get the toolkit here: http://opennurbs.org/, and there should be an example_read sample that would be a good starting point.

I should be able to help you over any difficult spots, just let me know.

- Michael