It’s a good point. I find it is the cheap Youth hockey tournaments guide！…

Hey, have you ever done a “save entire webpage” from the Firefox FILE pulldown… when viewing a o3d? It spews all the JS includes into separate files in the sub-directory of the saved webpage… kind of weird. But, it WON’T go get the o3dtgz file if there was one used in the o3d scene… and it won’t create an assets directory either. (Many of the Google o3d demos pull o3dtgz’s from an assets/ directory… but its certainly no requirement, as we all know).

What’s your opinion of o3d, Bill? I think its pretty nice stuff. That darned teapot is doing something close to raytracing in real time, eh? I see a horizon with clouds… in the teapot’s reflection. Now I’m no coder or 3D modeler, but, from the little time I spent using 3D Max… raytracing was a pretty cpu-heavy phenomena… and its sure good to see it working as nicely as it seems-to… in the teapot demo.

I’ve always seem to gravitate toward dynamics and particle emitting… and, ideally, a mixture of both. In Max, I used to fire up particle emitters (polygon sprayers) and then link them to blowers, gravity, explosions, tornadoes, you name it. FUN, though, again CPU-heavy, especially if you sprayed anything more vertex-heavy than simple primitives or faces… and if you sprayed heavy amounts.

Have ya seen THIS 5-pack of demos?

http://o3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/box2d-3d/box2d-3d.html

Left click on those demos, and polygons come flying out of your mouse arrow, and they have weight/gravity… so they tumble and rumble around with the animated o3d objects. Its TOTALLY fun. Especially, the piston. Change which demo… by right clicking. All 5 of the included dynamics demos… allow the left-click polygon emitting. I really got a bit addited and drooling when I played with them.

Ok, I’ll be around, Bill… nice to meet you. Hello to other readers… don’t be afraid to fill Bill’s blog with words… especially about o3d. :) I’m a bit over 50 years old… so I wndt through the VRML phase, and it was plenty fun. But CosmoPlayer never did shadows or chrome… so its a whole new world for me. Now what the hell is a matrix transform again? I forget. :)

Be good!
Wingnut
Anti-Capitalism-ist/Tech Idiot

I’m not using it as a file/media server at the moment but that would be handy now that you mention it.

* Backup server (I have a rsync script syncing my home folder to my server – anytime, anywhere)

* File/Media server (Attach your usb drive to the server and share it through SMB/AFP/WebDav)