Tools exist to convert between X3D and VRML and in good Unix style using simple tools and combining them is a good way to do things so VRML & XML tools can both be used and the files can be converted and displayed creating and viewing the content with whichever tool is best for the task, eg. Java 1.1 engines without Java3d can be used for displaying VRML animations that portable across Windows, Linux, and the Macintosh as you can see at my website.
Attached: VRML file: Navy_SeaLift_Command_pac.wrl Screen capture image: http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0301&L=java3d-interest&P=48821 http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0301&L=java3d-interest&P=2743903&E=2&B=--------------020509000004040106050401&N=sc_navy_slcp_java3d.jpg&T=image/jpeg The VRML is very readable ( excerpt ): DEF nsl_world Transform { translation -0.86374 0.11342 0.0 rotation 1 0 0 1.571 # half pi children [ Transform { translation -2.67167 0.0 0.0 children [ Shape { appearance USE Shiny_White_mat geometry USE Letter_N } ] } Transform { translation -1.94944 0.0 0.0 children [ Shape { appearance USE Shiny_White_mat geometry USE Letter_S } ] } Transform { translation -1.39389 0.0 0.0 children [ Shape { appearance USE Shiny_White_mat geometry USE Letter_L } ] } # --- end excerpt of VRML file ---- It's the Yumetech & U. Penn Folks that swear at and lie about people using the tools that are not the ones they think is best ( The "Couch - Beitler Flame War" ). I'm all for people using whatever tool is best for the task at hand. Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: > > It should be noted that I'm using the XJ3D toolkit > specifically for the XML capabilities. > > In one case, I'm going to be generating the XML via a > stylesheet transformation. In another, I'm going to be > using a high level API like JAXB (Java API for XML Binding) > to programatically create content using it's clean, Schema > generated API (when an X3D schema becomes available). > > I'm commiting heavily to XML in all that I do, > and this valuable toolkit will provide much > needed functionality. > > Mike > http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0301&L=java3d-interest&P=48939 Justin Couch: Do you think this the above ".jpg" image was "stolen" from the U.Penn Group and "photoshoped" instead of the simpler, more logical explanation: Java is simple & works and can render VRML with the Sun VRML Loaders ? Probably not. ;^) I would like to see the Yumetech & U. Penn folks act professionally and honestly and not lie and attach people in our community as Justin Couch, Alan Hudson, and Matthew Beitler have done as recently as this last week. Those guys are supposed to be working to advance web animation of human models with Web3d.org's VRML & X3D and not attack people that are successfull at it. Use what tool works best for the task at hand. The Sun VRML Loaders work and can animate Web3d.org's VRML based H-Anim avatars in a browser without Certificates. VRML Loaders Working -------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/vrml_loaders_working.html -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard"
Navy_SeaLift_Command_Pac.wrl
Description: VRML model
