Re: Interesting WebSpace funcitonality

Chris Schoeneman ([email protected])
Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:11:52 -0700


> Brian, you mentioned that you used WebSpace to check out VirtualVegas.
> Could you please do me (and many others) a really big favor? I'd give
> anything to see as many screen shots of any VRML sites as I can. I want
> to see what others are doing and since I don't have access to an SGI, I'm
> outta luck for a few weeks and that's a heckuva long time to wait for
> something as great as this! :) So could you (or anybody else) make some
> screen shots of various VRML worlds available for the rest of us?
> Thanks!!

You can check out http://www.lightscape.com. It has both jpeg and
vrml of a few models (the hall, operating room, and chamber), plus
other models with images or vrml only. The models are all radiosity
solutions and are really big. Some images may have been ray traced;
the ray tracing adds _only_ reflection and refraction effects -- all
other lighting is computed by the radiosity solution and is included
in the vrml models.

For those of you use WebSpace...
There are no light sources in these vrml files. All lighting is
precomputed and stored on the surfaces. The WebSpace viewer uses
the surface color directly, without lighting it, so the headlight
has no effect.

Cheers,
-chris