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VRML Engine?

Started by dirtbag Mar 30, 2004 at 9:03 PM 2 replies 350+ views

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Mar 30, 2004 at 9:03 PM

I''m not entirely sure whether it would be viable to develop an application using VRML,because i have never used or learned it. Though i recently seen an application(VRML)that was quite impressive.Obviously,i''m not talking about developing the next Doom using VRML

though this application had support for OGL and DirectX.I''m talking about games such as CSI(Crime-Scene Investigation)and the like. The ammount of poly''s in this application and the interactiveness(is that even a word?) was very impressive. Have any or many games like CSI been developed with VRML? What exactly is VRML? any links or articles for game dev related stuff using VRML? opinions please !

M3d10n

Mar 31, 2004 at 7:21 AM

VRML is nothing more extraornidary than a plain 3D file format specficitation. It''s not an API, not an engine.

There are tons VRML players out there, and many 3D modelling packages can export/import it. Such players ususally use OGL/D3D to render the VRML scenes, and some have their own software renderers.

Again, it''s just a *file* format.

flangazor

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flangazor

Mar 31, 2004 at 7:45 AM

If you wanted to come up with an animation format to compete with Macromedia''s Flash swf file format, you might consider VRML. In that sense, you could write an engine that uses VRML files, but that is significantly different from writing an engine using VRML.

On the other hand, I looked into it and decided that W3C couldn''t spec their way out of a brown paper bag. I think they failed on XML and I think they failed on this. [I will hold off on the rant about how S-expressions and certain languages that have lots of irritating parentheses.]

dirtbag

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dirtbag

Mar 31, 2004 at 9:03 AM

arghh...i see now,the demo application i saw impressed me so much i had to find out how it was made.

I understand what VRML is and what''s its not now

Thanks for the replies.

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