[x3d-public] X3D-Edit release announcement: launching external X3D players includes White Dune

[Don Brutzman]

X3D-Edit is a free, open-source Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics authoring tool for simple high-quality editing, authoring and validation of X3D scenes.

        https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit

Download and auto-update instructions:

        https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#Downloads

This release includes more helpful improvements, especially for authors who want to use multiple tools:

a. "About X3D-Edit" popup panel for standalone application reports initial installation build date.
    Subsequent updates are automatic (with user approval) at weekly intervals or when starting up.
    https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/X3D-Edit.html#Updates
    https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/images/NetbeansPluginRefreshDetected.png

b. External authoring tool launch menu to enable further work on X3D scenes by other authoring tools,
    now includes the updated White Dune!  8)
    project: http://wdune.ourproject.org
    docs:    http://wdune.ourproject.org/docs

c. External player launch menu to enable further work on X3D scenes by other authoring tools,
    now launches Xj3D as an external standalone application which reveals a number of helpful menus.

d. Refactored the X3D-Edit Preferences panel to better group external file categories for
    - X3D players (now includes built-in support for installing, autolaunching 10 different players),
    - X3D-capable authoring tools (now includes support for installing 8 different tools),
    -  Audio tools: Audacity and MuseScore,
    - HTML/XML/text tools: Amaya, svg-edit and UltraEdit,
    - Video tools: vlc video player,
    - Image tools: GIMP, Fiji, ImageJ, ImageMagick,
    - Volume authoring and image-slicing tools: Fiji, ImageJ, ITK-SNAP, Seg3D, and 3D Slicer.
    As before, authors can also add a local link to any other preferred tool in each category.
    Current images attached, online at https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#Preferences

e. Improvements to IndexedFaceSet (IFS) and IndexedLineSet (ILS) panels to better keep track of
    the various arrays of index values.

f. For standalone installations, Windows-launch batch files now include both 64-bit and 32-bit support
    (requires reinstallation of .zip distribution).https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/X3D-Edit3.3.zip

Steady work on Xj3D improvements also continues.  Latest greatest is checked into SourceForge trunk, details at
        https://sourceforge.net/projects/xj3d
        https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/developers.html#Xj3D

Request: is anyone out their testing on Debian or other Linux variants?  If so please advise so we can keep the documentation fully up to date.

Questions, corrections and suggestions are always welcome.

Have fun with X3D-Edit and Xj3D!

all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
Watkins 270,  MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA   +1.831.656.2149
X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman

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