Projects Wish List

Do you want to get involved? Here's how. There are many interesting projects with potentially broad impact that are looking for energetic developers. Many activities are support the rapid evolution and development of the X3Dv4 specification.

Motivated individuals with software development skills and Web authoring experience are welcome to start, or help develop, any of these candidate projects. Diverse talents are needed... maybe you too? There are excellent opportunities here!

All contributors are welcome to use the x3d-public mailing list for planning and design discussions. We are currently reviewing and improving this page each week as part of X3D Working Group.

Available Projects

1. Blender X3D Support - Much work has progressed and efforts are well developed, has achievable goals.
   • Support for X3D4 in Blender 
     • ​Web3D Consortium's Blender X3D Support page githup is public and a great way to get involved!
     • Blender import/export is performed using Python.
     • Here are original announcement, email thread and Blender task.
2. 3D Tiles Cesium X3D4 Support - An easy to use tool to improve workflow to support OGC 3D Tiles 1.1  and X3D4 together, both open standards. The Open source engine X3DOM is a mature and highly-cited Javascript software that runs with WebGL and WebXR.
3. Large X3D models(data sets) optimization (~100GB)
   • Improve rendering performance 
   • Light weight streaming 
   • Progressive streaming 
4. X3DOM has node and component support that lacks
   • Prototypes
   • NURBS
   • Scripts
   • Event Utilities
   • ViewpointGroup
5. Unity Game Manager support for X3D exporter and X3D scene loader:
   • Latest effort: UnityX3D
   • project on GitHub (with Web3D 2015 demo images).
   • Initial effort: UnityX3D project
   • on SourceForge (with example conversion).
   • Other game libraries like Unreal?
6. 3D printer and scanner support for X3D:
   • Are equipment surveys for X3D-compatible printers and scanners available, or should we together build them?
   • 3D printing export converters: Stereo Lithography (STL), PLY, Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF) and 3MF model formats.
   • Enabling direct import of content into NIH 3D Print Exchange and other model exchanges for VR and AR applications.
   • Web3D Design Printing and Scanning Working Group continues to address these topics.
7. Support for publishing X3D models
   • WordPress to incude X3D models using X_ITE or X3DOM.
   • ​Develop a  WordPress module to incude X3D models
   • Wikipedia support for X3D models using X_ITE or X3DOM.
8. X3D Conversions capabilities:
   • assimp Open Asset Import Library (open-source C++) discussion email thread.
9. Image support
   • Player support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as X3D ImageTexture, and X3D-SVG-HTML animation examples.
   • X_ITE supports SVG for ImageTexture, see Supported File Formats

Recognition Possibilities

Web3D Consortium wants to help incentivize these efforts. Candidate awards for great work include:

• Consortium announcements on web3d.org website and Twitter giving credit and announcing availability.
• One year's free Professional Membership in Web3D Consortium.
• Bragging rights in some kind of Web3D Developers Hall of Fame.
• Web3D members who really want certain results might offer special rewards.
• Got questions or ideas? Please Contact Us.

Further Improvements to Projects Wish List

Web3D Consortium is happy to add new projects here.

• X3D working group moderates community dialog and development.
• All working groups have opportunity to add and guide projects.
• Board of Directors approves awards and is advised regarding of major new efforts.
• Communications Team publicly reports significant opportunities and progress.

Additional ideas welcome, thanks for considering the possibilities.