[x3d-public] HAnim examples

[Joseph D Williams]

➢ Perhaps a separate section on implementation notes could have ...

Yes, I would think a small set that shows protos in case the browser you are using does not do native hanim.
Tha is the reason we had protos originally, there were only one or two tools that knew about hanim. 
Of course we also need example protos for displacer and skin but those require scripts. Boxman sort of protos for the skin and I did see a script for displacer once, I think. Really, the hanim is just too complex for scripted protos
I just think we ought to publish a current xml version rather than classic and especially rather than v1 vrml.
Thanks,
Joe

From: Andreas Plesch
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 1:58 PM
To: John Carlson
Cc: X3D Graphics public mailing list
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] HAnim examples

Thanks.

To me it looks like the Protos in the document are only there to
reinforce the signatures of the group/transform like HAnim nodes, and
perhaps as a fallback if these nodes are not supported natively by a
browser. Not sure if it is a good idea to have the Protos in the
example. Perhaps a separate section on implementation notes could have
those instead.

The reason why these examples are given in VRML encoding is perhaps
that the Protos could be just omitted and the main Humanoid node would
still work. In XML encoding, the Protos would be only useful if there
are corresponding ProtoInstances, eg. without the Protos the XML of
the main Humanoid starts to look different. Also, VRML is less verbose
and little easier to look at.

Cheers, -Andreas

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