Geometric Primitives Editor Panel

This window is the GUI to the OpenGL "aux" library which is used by MSV for its internal geometric primitives.

The first type-in allows to specify a name for the object. MSV always suggests the primitive's name as a default. Underscore will be prepended by MSV according to the number of ancestors of this object and a numeric extension may be added to make the name unique.
The Parent object cannot be specified by typing a name but is the current object. To select another parent for the object to be created simply pick on it in the scene or select it in the object browser.
The Shape pull-down menu allows to select among the following 11 geometric primitives: Sphere, Cube, Box, Torus, Cylinder, Icosahedron, Octahedron, Tetrahedron, Dodecahedron, Cone and Tea Pot. The size of these primitives is defined by the parameters. For a given primitive, the corresponding number of parameters boxes will active (pink background).
By pushing the Accept button the object will be created, provided that all parameters have been specified.

Michel Sanner
March 31 12:00 PDT 1997
sanner@scripps.edu