[x3d-public] Playback controller

[Jan Danek]

Hello Mike,

We solve this task by the VRPLAY GUI in Simulink 3D Animation:

	http://www.mathworks.com/help/sl3d/vrplay.html

If, by chance, you are a MATLAB user, this should be the most convenient way to go. 
Documentation says that VRPLAY supports only animation files created using the Simulink 3D 
Animation VRML recording functionality, but if you have in your world Position and Orientation 
Interpolators, this is exactly how we animate scenes - your scene should work as well.

Feel free to contact me if you want some more info.

With Best Regards,

Jan

> I have an hour's worth of platform orientation data that I can play back with a TimeSensor. I'd like 
> to give the viewer a slider to be able to "scrub" through the data.
> 
> I can route in a PlaneSensor to control the OrientationInterpolators, but when the PlaneSensor is 
> not active the TimeSensor resumes with its value not being changed.
> 
> What I'd like to do is to route a value into a 'set_fraction' field of TimeSensor, but that is not in the 
> X3D specification.
> 
> Are there any other ideas on how to accomplish this? (I'd think that this would be a common use 
> case: basically a video playback controller for any sort of time dependent data.)
> 
> -Mike
> 
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