<div><div><div dir="auto">Perhaps Viewpoint should have the trigger and url, to download (filename) or uploading the X3D scene or Texture of the Viewpoint?   Watch recursion though.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See my softbody2 demo for downloading a .glb.  Why not X3D as well?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks all for revealing this node!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One could specify whether one wanted a Texture, GlTF or X3D scene to be captured.</div></div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 12:12 PM Don Brutzman via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div><i>Wow!  </i>Thanks for this interesting proposal Holger (and Michalis, and X3DOM team).  This is an excellent and interesting prospect for X3D 4.1.</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/Architecture.html" target="_blank">X3D Architecture 4.1 draft — ISO/IEC 19775-1:202x — X3D Architecture index page</a></li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/Architecture.html" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/Architecture.html</a></li></ul><div>with list of current v4.1 draft nodes at</div></div><div><ul><li>X3D Architecture draft 4.1, Node, abstract node type, and abstract interface index</li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html</a></li><li><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(224,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">New nodes in X3D 4.1 draft: </span><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html#EnvironmentLight" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center" target="_blank">EnvironmentLight</a><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(224,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html#FontLibrary" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center" target="_blank">FontLibrary</a><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(224,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html#HAnimPose" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center" target="_blank">HAnimPose</a><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(224,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html#InlineGeometry" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center" target="_blank">InlineGeometry</a><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(224,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD/Part01/nodeIndex.html#Tangent" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center" target="_blank">Tangent</a></li><li>also at 

<a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html" target="_blank">X3D Tooltips in English version 4.0 (with X3D version 4.1 draft)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html</a></li></ul></div><div><i>Looking back:</i>  perhaps someone knows if any Web3D Conference papers were written on this topic?  I searched the ACM Digital Library but was not able to narrow the query well enough.</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/conference/web3d" target="_blank">WEB3D Conference - Home</a></li><li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/conference/web3d" target="_blank">https://dl.acm.org/conference/web3d</a></li></ul><div><i>Looking ahead: </i>wondering if we might add an inputOnly field to trigger saving the rendered image to a file, along with a local relative url for saving that file?  Having such functionality might be a powerful way for people to use X3D models as an authoring tool.  The specification would necessarily need to add some security precautions for implementations that will keep end users in charge of permitting such a capability.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Have fun with X3D!  😁 👉 📷 </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">all the best, Don</font></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">-- </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">X3D Graphics, Maritime Robotics, Distributed Simulation</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Relative Motion Consulting  <a href="https://RelativeMotion.info" style="font-family:monospace" target="_blank">https://RelativeMotion.info</a></font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM Holger Seelig via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><div>The latest version of X_ITE now includes the new RenderedTexture node. This node is very close to Castle's and X3DOM's RenderedTexture. Therefore, it makes sense to standardize this node and possibly include it in the new X3D 4.1 standard.</div><div><br></div><div>Description (from Castle)</div><div>RenderedTexture is a texture rendered from a specified viewpoint in the 3D scene. This can be used for a wide range of graphic effects, the most straightforward use is to make something like a "security camera" or a "portal", through which a player can peek what happens at a other place in 3D world, or to make a mirror.</div><div><br></div><div>Documentation for the node in the respective browsers</div><div>X_ITE: <a href="https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/components/texturing/renderedtexture/" target="_blank">https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/components/texturing/renderedtexture/</a></div><div>Castle: <a href="https://castle-engine.io/x3d_implementation_texturing_extensions.php#section_ext_rendered_texture" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/x3d_implementation_texturing_extensions.php#section_ext_rendered_texture</a></div><div>X3D’OM: <a href="https://doc.x3dom.org/author/Texturing/RenderedTexture.html" target="_blank">https://doc.x3dom.org/author/Texturing/RenderedTexture.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Example file in X_ITE Playground</div><div><a href="https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/playground/?url=https://create3000.github.io/media/examples/Texturing/RenderedTexture/RenderedTexture.x3d" target="_blank">https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/playground/?url=https://create3000.github.io/media/examples/Texturing/RenderedTexture/RenderedTexture.x3d</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Holger</div><div><br></div><div>
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