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[x3d-public] Re: [www-vrml] Migrating ROL to X3D: Nyet.



Flux Studio is good, the plugin is an incomplete unstable
mess with a lot of vrml/x3d content.

So the glass is half-full and becoming more full. I also have some great examples of some simple stuff that gets Flux flailing, but look at all the amazing contributions that are working. Best Regards, Joe

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Aslin" <fabricatorgeneral@yahoo.com>
To: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>; "'seamless3d'" <thyme@seamless3d.com>; "'Joe D Williams'" <joedwil@earthlink.net>; <www-vrml@web3d.org>; <x3d-public@web3d.org>
Cc: "'Rita Turkowski'" <rita.turkowski@web3d.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [www-vrml] Migrating ROL to X3D: Nyet.




Ditch Flux Viewer.

Flux Studio is good, the plugin is an incomplete unstable
mess with a lot of vrml/x3d content. Except of course
anything made with Flux Studio itself. The developers are
working on the plugin slowly, but its also opensourse if
people want to have a go fixing something.

99% of what comes out of Flux Studio either works in BS
Contact, or works with minor changes.


--- Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net> wrote:

I hate to say it:  I tried the editor and browser being
recommended (FS) to
move to standards compliance. This is a complete disaster
for the ROL
project.  From rendering to speed to support for external
files, nothing
worked as well as it does using vanilla VRML97 and the
browser I started
with.  It can't load the ROL world as-built and the
individual models load
with odd differences that are too numerous to get into
here.

We have a ways to go in cross-platform compatibility.

So my paranoia about changing tools and standards in the
middle of a project
is proven correct.   I'm not dissing Flux or Flux Studio.
 I think if one
starts a project with these tools, one gets fine results
from what I could
see by inspection of the native models at the site.  But
upward
compatibility from pre-existing models is still a 70%
kind of affair and
with the amount of work that last 30% is spread across a
complex world, it
is unacceptable at this time.

ROL remains firmly VRML97 and BS Contact 7.0.

Rats!

len




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