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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/14/2016 9:03 PM, John Carlson
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1. I am beginning to see the wisdom of this approach. What
happens when one’s points get large with scripts? I took a
slightly different approach and got good results. Note that I had
to double instance the points to get the spheres to appear at all.
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I am not sure why? Anyone?
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<div class="">2. Don, Cobweb needs to be updated in X3D-Edit.</div>
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<div class="">3. Leonard, can you render this in X3DOM? I’m
curious to know how to do this with Inline’s and not Proto’s.</div>
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Simple answer is No. The PROTOs use Scripts. There are no scripts in
X3DOM.<br>
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That does not mean it cannot be done. You have 4 sphere's randomly
moving in a region. You have connected three of them to a "central"
hub. The most difficult part is maintaining the connection between
the spheres. Using a transform on a cylinder is really messy because
you need to scale, rotate, and translation the center of each
cylinder for each animation frame.<br>
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A better way to go might be to modify the existing IndexedLineSet
node to produce a line with a width. Then you are just transforming
the end points of a 2-point line. Note that if you arrange the
Transforms properly the "hub" sphere is always at the origin of the
hierarchy that contains the 4 spheres and cylinders.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
X3D Co-Chair on Sabbatical<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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