Avatars can be exported from : - Studio Max ( the Bi-Ped Characters ) - Poser 4 ( with serious flaws ? ) - Spazz3d and animated interactively on the Web, and with Java3d. | I have a simple model created in 3D Studio Max. | I want to output VRML and manipulate the various | components of the model under user control in an | application. ... | "Michael B" wrote http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa? A2=ind0102&L=java3d-interest&O=D&P=3251 Yes ... I'm running VRML from Studio Max with Java3d and Java 1 (on the web), and can control VRML / H-Anim avatars with Java 1.1 & Java3d. This __ REALLY __ IMPORTANT, Networked Web3d has arrived: "Distributed Virtual Worlds:... Using Vrml, Java, and Corba" --------------------------------------------------------- | everyone connected to the Internet can directly | enter a virtual world __ without __ installing | a new kind of software. The VRML technology offers ... | interactive three-dimensional ... [ coming March 31, 2001 ] | | Stephan Diehl, author & General Chair of __ Web3D __ 2001 __ | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540676244/ Meet the Author ( Web3D : Paderborn, 19-22 Feb 2001 ) ---------------- he presents a paper about Web3d / Java3d " Component Based Model ... Presentation Using Java3D " | http://www.c-lab.de/web3d/program/program.html To prove the point & let you try it ... here are the links : " Studio Max Bi-Ped --(export)--> VRML ---> Web 3D Animation ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/seamless_avatars.html -- it _ WORKS _ ...no problem ... ** ANY BROWSER ** with Java - Studio Max BiPed Figure Animated with VRML and Java - rotate & zoom on the walking figure (zoom with the Control key down) - Wait for it to load then double click on _" Studio Max BiPed "_ VRML File: http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/shout3d/models/StudioMax_Biped.wrl If _ YOU _ are having with a "scaling problem" _ please _ be very specific, provide the relevant data files, and a description of the problem. Multiple animations can combined ... they can be started, stopped, and switched under control of a program by the user. You can make " Nancy " Run, Walk, and Jump - Works in / with Cosmo, Java3d, and Shout3d ( Java 1.1 ) - Works on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh, Be, EPOC with Java 1.1 | [ We use ] Poser and after it, 3D Studio Max, | we created two animations for an humanoid (start and run). | ... converted it to VRML. We intend to use the animation run | repeatedly ... Is there any way to convert the animation | from Coordinate Interpolator to keyframe animation. | Antonio Diogo wrote http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/h-anim/hypermail/2001/0026.html Yes, it can be to animated and controlled, but I think keyframes are a Studio Max thing and not VRML thing, with VRML you start and stop various animations, and they can loop. Are you exporting as VRML & H-Anim ? Has that been fixed ? " YOU Pose Poser 4 Exported H-Anim Avatar " ------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/HAnimPoser.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/Avatars/pat.wrl - "pat.wrl" is the Poser 4 figure, to see "pat.wrl" double click on "pat.wrl" in the "avatars" list (you may have to scroll down) NOTE : Pat falls apart like she was a Chain Saw Massacre victim. This is an old export, the exports were buggy (Poser's error.) *** _ IF _ you have newer, better samples please provide them. ( You can try them yourself, enter the URL in the URL field ). Rick Goldberg of Sun Microsystems wrote the VRML loaders, he is a scholar and a gentleman and his loaders have worked wonderfully, I've been using versions of them since 1999. VRML-97 is morphing into something newer and better -- and something much more complicated -- it's getting XML. Unfortunately support for the old open source loaders has disappeared and I'm not sure of the status of the new loaders. I hope, and most humbly request, that those developing the open source VRML-200x / J3d / X3d Loaders would give us status report on their progress including : - what the old loaders do - what the new loader currently do - when the new loader will be fully ready. Please post this information to the following: - the VRML, H-Anim, & Java3D Interest mailing lists - the comp.lang.vrml & comp.lang.java3d newsgroups. I thank the people who have worked on the VRML / X3D Loaders for their good work. Web3d has the open source VRML Loaders for Java3d : Xj3D Loader: Install, Plan, archive, VRML-97 Loader (old) ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.web3D.org/TaskGroups/x3d/Xj3D/HowToInstall.html http://www.web3D.org/TaskGroups/x3d/X3dStrategicPlan.html http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/source/hypermail/2000/ http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sun/x3d.zip " VRML for Web Pages & Java3D & Games " --------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html " Studio Max Bi-Ped --> VRML --> Web 3d & Java 3d : It works " ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/h-anim/hypermail/2000/0133.html " Human Animation with Java3d coming to the Feb. 15, 2001 " ------------------------------------------------------------ http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa? A2=ind0102&L=java3d-interest&O=D&P=6375 H-Anim Avatars will be used in MPEG-4 streamed animations multi-player networked games, and multi-client chat programs ... the streams going through a server often -- perhaps best -- with Linux - Apache - Java on the server : coming soon. -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
