Saturday, 7. June 2008, 15:15:02
gedit, X3D, blender, typo3
...
After my talk "Website Requirements Today" at the
TYPO3 Security Day here in Berlin is over its time for me to relax a little bit. Then i will start update/ finish a lot of my scripts (
Nautilus Thumbnailer,
gEdit Language Reference plugin) and my new one
Supor Killor.
At
area42 we started to complete a new version of the
BS Exporter for Blender X3D/VRML. This version will add amazing new features and will support the new partcile engine of
Blender 2.46 too.
Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 23:47:05
X3D, VRML, Web3D, event
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.
Thursday, 22. November 2007, 20:23:56
realtime, X3D, VRML, Web3D
...
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!
Monday, 12. November 2007, 19:38:29
realtime, X3D, VRML, Web3D
...
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.
Saturday, 10. November 2007, 18:39:31
bs, X3D, VRML, wine
...
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!
Saturday, 5. May 2007, 23:31:17
standard, 3d, realtime, X3D
...
At the Web3D Consortium sitew you can read about the last Web3D Symposium about the open ISO 3D standard X3D that took place in Italy.
Monday, 5. March 2007, 20:36:21
3d, realtime, X3D, VRML
...
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!
Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 13:33:56
3d, X3D, VRML, event
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.
Tuesday, 16. January 2007, 17:31:00
3d, realtime, X3D, web
...
HP has posted
an article about X3D - the official realtime 3D standard.
The article ends with "X3D represents a solid push toward rational science and away from the posited "what if" of speculative fiction. With X3D, you can get directly involved in where the Web can go."
Tuesday, 2. January 2007, 10:36:58
VRML, X3D, Web3D, Tangerine
...
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
I didn't test
FreeWRL or
OpenVRML yet, but will do this soon.
(53%)
WIDGETIZE