Looking for Linux based VRML tools

Ana Sofia Almeida ([email protected])
Sat, 8 Apr 1995 18:40:57 +0200 (MET DST)


Hi All!!

I've been lurking on this mailing list for a long time (although I've
never post anything..'cause my interest is essentially as a final
VRML' worlds user). I hope VRML will provide me with facilities to
create MY OWN world and "interface" to cyberspace. I'd like to be
able to create/design/whatever my own VIEW over the information space
I've before me...

But for now, I'm just trying to visualize a scene made with VRML, so I'm
looking for the following:

(1) VRML browser software that will run on my Linux Box or DOS/Windows.

(2) 3DS-2-VRML converter.
I'm willing to be a beta tester for VRML browser or for the converter.

(3) Some info:
- Does VRML (and VRML worlds) support any kind of Interaction?
- Can I change other person's "worlds"? Can others change the world I made
available? (in real-time, meaning when they are accessing it?) How?
- How can I visualize a scene using NCSA's browser or Netscape? (or I can't?)
- Can I atach behavior to the "objects" represented on the scene? How? (or
they are just plain simple and static? with no action atached (like, .e.g.
a search mechanism?)
- Am I still making sense? Are these stupid questions?

Well..at this stage..even flames are welcome:-))

Thanks in advance. Bye for now..
Kisses

Ana