browsing a 3D scene 2003-12-08 - By D. Waschow
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Unless you're getting paid a cheese-load of money to design an interface and 3D
browsing environment, I'd recommend the following two options:
1) Use one of the free (or cheap) game engines and load your scene into it.
That way the navigation system, collision detection, etc. is already taken care
of. Of course, this will require a certain amount of work on your part getting
the models, textures, etc. into the game engine and doing other setup.
2) Offer to provide QuickTime VR (or equivalent) files of the different rooms.
The viewer won't be able to move around, per se, but will be able to
dynamically look around each room.
I know a guy here in Indianapolis who makes a living doing what you're trying
to do. Here's his website: http://www.3dx3.com/
Good luck!
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> From: "emmanuel asset" <emmanuel.asset@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:13 PM
> Subject: [TSML] browsing a 3D scene
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> Hi all,
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> I am building a scene for an architect. His client asked for an
> animation but he would also like to get a solution to visit the whole
> scene by himself using an easy-to-use tool.
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> I have to give him a full working "package" with a navigation program
> and the scene at the right format. I was first thinking of VRML but most
> of browsing plugins I know are not very easy to use or even install.
> A standalone software might be better. I tried GLview
> http://home.snafu.de/hg/ <http://home.snafu.de/hg/> but it is quite old
> now, and some objects doesn't shows well when we go close to them.
>
> What other solutions do we have to visit a 3D scene made in tS, using
> DirectX or OpenGL for a smooth navigation, and with a nice UI ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Emmanuel
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Darren L. Waschow
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