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Oct 10, 2004

The draft of Amendment 1 to the X3D abstract specification is now available for review and comment by Web3D consortium members. X3D Amendment 1 (AMD-1) defines several enhancements and modifications to the X3D abstract specification, ISO/IEC 19775, as follows:

New components/profiles:

  • CAD Geometry component
  • CAD Interchange profile
  • Programmable shaders component
  • 3D texturing component
  • Cubic environment texturing component

Modifications to the existing specification:

  • New Matrix field types
  • Text improvements
  • Lighting changes - ability to control scoping for all light types
  • NavigationInfo, LOD improvements
  • Fog enhancements - local (vertex-based) fog
  • Various errata corrected

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