[X3D-Public] got MultiTexture and MultiTextureTransform example scenes?

Dave A dave at realmofconcepts.com
Thu Apr 4 00:15:24 PDT 2013


Don,

Thanks, good to know.

I'm working on an exporter for Unity. I'm not sure if I'm outputting 'to 
spec' as I have no way to test it visually, if I can't find a compliant 
player. Relying on X3D-Edit will assure me that my syntax is right (or 
wrong), but I can't tell if it looks right. And from a previous post, 
using DOT3 or whatever is not really what I would want, or what people 
do these days, anyway.

If everyone is going in different directions, maybe because the world 
has changed since that spec was written (and quite understandably so), 
we should look at revising the spec.

I'm not really an expert at shaders, which seems to be the way the world 
is going. And every shader can have its own set of parameters. This make 
players more likely to support (?) but makes is quite difficult for 
interchange, especially when interchange wants something minimally complete.

I normally like to write to 'immersive' or some such profile, so I can 
see what my file contains, in theory. But I can see now where a 
simplified Interchange multi-texturing and/or shader set of nodes/fields 
might be an option.

That, or as X3DOM and others have done, use a more generic, universal 
shader that can take some common surface types.

I would bet that most materials ever used are diffuse, bump-diffuse, and 
bump-diffuse-specular, perhaps add emissive to that as well. With 
transparency (both in the diffuse bitmap and the main color). More 
exotic surfaces (water, glass, plasma-lava-antigrav polyalloy) would 
require shaders, custom ones.  Kudos for shader support!

Unity has a ShaderLab shader syntax which compiles down to DirectX, 
OpenGL and OpenGLES. Perhaps something like that would be needed for 
true interchange and universal interoperability.

For my purposes, I've given in to using META tags to get my data across. 
Which is 1 - ok for my project, as I'm doing both export and import, and 
2 - sucks for anyone else that wants to import or export to this system.

I'd really like to see the extenstions that Bitmanagement and Fraunhofer 
have done (in IR and X3DOM) given a good deal of consideration. Also 
consider the current direction and likely future of this, and needs of 
'for display' and 'for interchange' taken into account.

I wish I could be more help, but as I said, I'm not really a shader 
expert. I just know I need to get a bumped-diffuse-specular object saved 
and loaded again!

But if you do happen to want my input on this, I will be glad to provide it.

Cheers

Dave A.

On 4/2/2013 7:53 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:
> I was asked:
>> BTW: Do you know of ANY multi-texture examples in XML-based X3D?
>
> We have support for MultiTexture and MultiTextureTransform in 
> X3D-Edit, tooltips, DTD and schema.
>
> However we don't have any in the X3D Basic examples archive.
>
> Does anyone know of candidate examples?  Or perhaps you are willing to 
> create one?  That would be good to add to the archive so that we can 
> encourage consistent support among browsers.
>
> TIA for all pointers or submissions.
>
> all the best, Don




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