Re: Handwriting

David Story ([email protected])
Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:32:20 -0700 (PDT)

Nathan J. Strange writes:
>
:
> I would like to create my worlds by building the objects with an authoring
> tool, and then hand-writing a VRML document to use those objects
> in my world, and to describe the physics of my world...

Although I understand your points, I worry about the difficulty of
good scene composition when faced with hand-authored files.

I believe that scene composition and optimization (LODs, etc..) is
more difficult than it appears at first blush. I think it requires a
good (custom) tool, not a text editor, so we should be leery of
including features in VRML which cater overmuch to this kind of hand-editing.

Cheers,

David Story, [email protected] Inventor 3D Graphics Group
(415) 390-5337 Silicon Graphics Inc.

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