Supported 3D formats

TEC format overview:

(unfinished - no information available)


TEC file characteristics:


TEC format references and information:

TEC format information and examples from John Burkardt


TEC support notes inside IVCon source code:

 Author:  John Burkardt
 Change: 08 Mar 2007 Tomasz Lis adjusted to new core
 Change: 31 Mar 2008 Tomasz Lis fixed and described

 A list of supported elements follows. Please modify if you'll enhance something.
 Format support note - reading:
 - No read support
 Format support note - writing:
 - Full vertices support
 - Full faces support, max face order 3 (auto reduced on save)
 - No meshes support, only faces
 - Limited materials support - ambient color only
 - No textures supported
 - No texture UV supported
 - No camera/view support
 - No Environment or lights support
 - No shapes support

Example:

TITLE = "cube.tec created by IVCON."
VARIABLES = "X", "Y", "Z", "R", "G", "B"
ZONE T="TRIANGLES", N=8, E=12, F=FEPOINT, ET=TRIANGLE
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0
0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0
1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
1 4 2
2 4 3
1 5 8
1 2 5
2 6 5
2 3 6
3 7 6
3 4 7
4 8 7
4 1 8
5 6 8
6 7 8

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   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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