[x3d-public] Need help: Efficient use of X3D for a demo

[Valentin Christoph]

Hi all,

Keeping you posted (as you requested):

1) I found my home city Vienna publishes 1m terrain data in 2.5km x 2.5 km tiles by a Creative Commons license --> perfect

1a) Selected a tile containing the area between Western railway station and Schönbrunn castle

2) BS Contact renders the terrain perfectly, but I cannot use BS Contact for this demo (this is currently being a "black project" and I cannot buy a license without asking somebody)

3) Tried to install Xj3d but I am not a Java/LINUX guru, would need to ask colleagues for help (which I cannot do, because - you know it - this is being a "black project")

4) Installed FreeWrl without problems, but FreeWrl crashed with the demo - obviously the 77 MB texture .jpg was too big - runs clean, if I remove the texture.

5) Next steps: downsize the texture file, get familiar with FreeWRL, implement the rest of the demo. Deadline 2018-01-11

6) The actual amount of staff hours is not really important, as long as it can be "hidden" (black project :-)

7) Bonus information: I am in favor of using the DIS component for this "black project" (as soon as it comes to being multiuser), however this cannot prejudice some official decision that might be taken in a few weeks or months.

8) This project is completely independent of SrrTrains!!!!!!!!!! Both have to be strictly separated.

All the best
Christoph

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Brutzman [mailto:brutzman at nps.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:31 PM
To: Valentin Christoph <Christoph.Valentin at kapsch.net>
Cc: x3d-public at web3d.org; Onic Roman <Roman.Onic at kapsch.net>
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] Need help: Efficient use of X3D for a demo

On 11/15/2017 3:53 AM, Valentin Christoph wrote:
> [...]
> I am thinking of using Eclipse + Xj3d to implement this demo, but when trying to download the Eclipse plugin, www.xj3d.org <http://www.xj3d.org> requests a user name and password from me, which I do not have.

Hi Christoph.  That link on the Developer is on the old Xj3D.org site for Xj3D 2.0.  Not sure it is maintained anymore; certainly the resources there are quite dated and unlikely to work in latest Eclipse.

	http://www.xj3d.org/snapshots.html

NPS maintains Xj3D v2.1 with a number of bugfix improvements (but no Eclipse plugins).

	Xj3D viewer: NPS source
	https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/developers.html#Xj3D

Interestingly on that, we have a draft fix to Extrusion node that is now being tested as we communicate.  More to follow later this week.

As Vince indicated, there is a lot of functionality in X3D-Edit that can help several of your goals.  Running as a Netbeans 8 plugin is recommended approach.  Bug reports are handled and fixed.

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

There are also lots + lots of example scenes.  Suggest you spend one of your hours surveying the landscape, it can help you sketch out your model(s).

	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Examples

Echoing Vince, yes please keep everyone posted.  Good luck with your efforts!

all the best, Don
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