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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "VRML"

Siggraph 2008 Web3D Tech Talk

Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 23:47:05

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The Web3D Consortium is looking for your best X3D or VRML content and innovation to share to the world at our “Siggraph 2008 Web3D Tech Talk” this summer.

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Blender X3D Importer

Thursday, 22. November 2007, 20:23:56

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Many people aked me about writing a X3D importer for Blender (because i developed the X3D exporter bundled with Blender and the BS Exporter for Blender for Bitmanagement) but i didn't had the time for it.
Now MatMdx at the BlenderArtists.org Forum released a first alpha. Try it out it supports many features yet.
Good work MatMdx!

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BS Exporter for Blender 1.03

Monday, 12. November 2007, 19:38:29

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I updated the feature rich "BS Exporter for Blender" for Bitmanagement to get it work with Blender 2.44 and above. Besides that i fixed two small bugs too:
* Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 release
* Updated for Blender 2.44+ and changed deprecated code
* Bugfix: Creating texture subfolder only if textures available
* Bugfix: Working on Linux and MacOS X now

The exporter supports VRML and X3D (iso standards for web3d) including particle effects, multi texturing and a wide range of animations. A full documentation is available.

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BS Contact VRML/X3D on Linux

Saturday, 10. November 2007, 18:39:31

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Wine was updated to version 0.9.49 and so i tried again running my favorite VRML/ X3D Viewer BS Contact. Guess what - right it seems to work now, just some minor limitations:
* you have to use OpenGL hardware acceleration
* Shaders didn't work
* Only VRML code is working (seems to be a limitation of Wine using the M$ XML parser)
* Antialiasing didn't work too
* There is a termination message on exit

My system is:
* Ubuntu 7.10/ Wine 0.9.49/ BS Contact VRML/X3D 7.039
* Gnome 2.20 Desktop using Compiz
* Nvidia GS 8400 with nvidia-glx-new driver 100.14.19

Thanx to the Wine team, really great work!

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Amazing X3D content: HSV 3D arena

Monday, 5. March 2007, 20:36:21

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This is some real rockin' X3D (X3D is the open standard for realtime 3D and successor of VRML) realtime 3D content, check out the HSV 3D arena - really amazing stuff!

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Web3D Symposium 2007

Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 13:33:56

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The Web3D Symposium 2007 is now open for registration. This year it is held in Perugia, Italy on April 15-18th, 2007. There will also be a X3D Earth WG meeting on April 19th.
The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit, international standards organization that has spearheaded the development of the VRML 1.0 and 2.0 specifications and now the X3D standard too.

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Viewing X3D

Tuesday, 2. January 2007, 10:36:58

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I'm using Blender and the "BS Exporter for Blender" for creating realtime 3D content based on the officical standard X3D (successor of VRML). I was looking around for a native X3D viewer because Contact doesn't work with Wine yet.
So i found the Octaga Player for Linux which runs fine. There where just two things:
  • Octaga Player has some ugly icons
  • the Deb file didn't istall the Firefox plugin correct

The plugin problem of the Deb file where easy to fix just copy the files of
/usr/lib/octagaplayer -> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
After a restart Firefox has a plugin for viewing VRML worlds and X3D scenes.

To fix the ugly icons i changed the default ones the shipped with the Octaga Player and created some based on Tango/ Tangerine icons.

Just download the Octaga Player theme and copy all files as root into
/usr/share/octagaplayer/Resources/Images
Overwrite all existing files - that's it :smile:

I didn't test FreeWRL or OpenVRML yet, but will do this soon.


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