[x3d-public] Background static image and dds

[Andreas Plesch]

Hi John,

x3dom supports the standard Background node features as well. I would not
expect other, standalone browsers to support these additional features,
although x3dom tends to follow instant. view3dscene may have dds support ?

-Andreas

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:10 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm. My cubemaps with 6 separate images work well on both X3DOM and X_ITE.
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> I’d have to try one of the standalone browsers.
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> Hmm Hmm.
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> John
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> *From: *Andreas Plesch <andreasplesch at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, August 5, 2019 9:19 AM
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> *Subject: *[x3d-public] Background static image and dds
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> X3DOM currently has two useful but not spec. compliant features for its
> Background node.
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> A) support for static, single image background
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> If only a backUrl image is provided, it is used as static backdrop which
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> The same effect can be achieved with web page css styling, although
> sometimes it is advantageous to have a static background rendered with gl.
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> B) support for cubemaps in dds format
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> dds is a popular texture format which is well defined by MS:
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> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddds/dx-graphics-dds
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> dds has built in support for cubemaps and is compact and portable.
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> x3dom understands dds format for an image provided for a cube map.
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> Support for additional texture formats may be out of scope for X3D. There
> may be other Mantis reports on texture formats.
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> Would it make sense to consider these features for specification ?
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> -Andreas
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> Andreas Plesch
> Waltham, MA 02453
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Andreas Plesch
Waltham, MA 02453
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