While I’m at it, here’s a link to a tool for creating and testing x3d files, from the Web3D Consortium. It’s free.
Click the logo at the left to go to the page about it.
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X3D-Edit
February 11, 2008
x3d
February 11, 2008
It appears that iClone2 doesn’t export to x3d. Rats! I could be wrong, though. I’ll look more closely. But first, what exactly is x3d? I’m doing a Web search on the subject now.
Wolfram Mathematica’s page says x3d is:
Web3D geometry format
Used for distributing 3D models on the web and in media applications.
XML format.
Can store multiple geometries.
Introduced [...]
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Maya
February 11, 2008
OK, so I’m a sucker for a good deal. I just signed up for Autodesk’s Maya PLE (Personal Learning Edition) and it’s downloading as we speak. The system requirements are:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2 or higher)
Apple® Mac OS® X 10.4.8
No Linux version, and I don’t have XP Pro, so I’m getting the Mac version [...]
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Tying it together
February 11, 2008
Going back to the Reallusion® iClone2 software, I need to check the specifications for formats it can export. Project Wonderland presently requires x3d format, which they know can be exported by Autodesk Maya, but may be available from other applications, too. Oh, cool, Maya has a free version, as well as their very pricey [...]
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Wonderland by night
February 11, 2008
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist that headline. I’ve just signed up for a developer account in Sun Microsystems’ lg3d Project Wonderland, which their website describes as a “multi-user virtual environment … to provide an environment that is robust enough in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and functionality that organizations can rely on it as a [...]
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First Post
February 10, 2008
Welcome to new media on the go. Exactly what that means will be developed as we go (which is part of the self-referential meaning in itself), but for now I want to talk more about the new media aspect than the on the go part.
I just received a couple of new products from Reallusion® for [...]
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