Re: [openvrml-develop] Considering OpenVRML for my project - Some questions

[Reed H. <re...@ze...>]

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On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 08:14 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:

>
>> Eventually I want to support Script
>> nodes (which would affect my object structure).
>
> Aha... Now this is a whole 'nuther ball of wax. What kind of Script node
> support are you looking for? If you mean *complete* Script node support,
> then you need a whole VRML runtime engine, and OpenVRML definitely fits
> the bill there.

Yeah, pretty complete. ROUTEs too.   What is the interface to Routes and 
Script nodes?  I ran doxygen (by hand, after modifyiing Doxyfile.in -- 
configure could not find my GL libs and aborted) but only noticed the 
abstract ScriptObject parent class...

> JavaScript is adequate, but incomplete. Check the task list. Java is
> there, but nascent.

Yeah, JavaScript.

>> Can I build OpenVRML without any OpenGL rendering features and just use
>> it's parsing and scripting features?
>
> Yes.

An option to configure?

> It would be interesting to see a bridge between OpenVRML and some other
> 3D runtime system. Such a project would definitely be helpful in
> discovering what needs to be exposed in our API.

I won't have much time for this until the summer, but I'll be working on 
it heavily then.  The VOS 3D stuff is informed  by VRML, but not really 
based on it at all... so it will be a bit irritating bridging them :).  
(It's not a scene graph per se, though the transformations are 
hierarchical; we only have a few primatives and material 
characteristics, but will be adding more.  And of course, it's always 
the little things, right?)

Also, I primarily work in Mac OSX.  Any work with OpenVRML on that 
platform yet?  (One irritating thing is the weird places it puts some 
libraries, such as OpenGL and GLUT :) It's really easy to "port" stuff 
from Unix-ish platforms though, so I can do that pretty easily.

thanks for the info!

reed

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