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News. X3D-Edit 3.3 is now available. It is a complete rewrite, replacing the X3D-Edit 3.1 tool described on this page.

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AutoInstaller |Purpose |Status |Internationalization (i18n) |Installation Setup |Download Updates |Features |Details |Usage |Compact Form |Developers |Bugfixes

Purpose

X3D-Edit 3.1 is a graphics file editor for Extensible 3D (X3D) that enables simple error-free editing, authoring and validation of X3D or VRML scene-graph files. Context-sensitive tooltips provide concise summaries of each VRML node and attribute. These tooltips simplify authoring and improve understanding for novice and expert users alike.

X3D-Edit Auto Installer is available online for various operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris and other Unix).

X3D-Edit 3.1 uses the X3D 3.1 tagset defined by the X3D 3.1 Document Type Definition (DTD) in combination with Sun's Java, IBM's Xeena XML editor, and editor profile configuration files.

See X3D Help for further X3D resources.

Status

X3D-Edit 3.1 implements the Extensible 3D (X3D) tagset for the next-generation Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML 200x). X3D-Edit also exercises various X3D graphics rendering and translation implementations.

Latest updates of software and examples: see build.date.X3D-Edit.txt.

Version 3.1 matches X3D 3.0 International Specification (Summer 2004) and adding components from X3D Amendment 1 (Winter 2005).

Completed v3.1 components:

• Updated x3d-3.1.dtd
• CAD component
• Programmable shaders component
• Cube map environmental texturing component
• LocalFog and FogCoordinate
• Texture3D component
• Miscellaneous updates

Also ongoing: testing X3D Schema (x3d-3.1.xsd) against several thousand X3D examples using a project file for XML Spy.

Functional improvements:

• Web3D Specifications for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics, Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) and the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML 97) are now included.
• X3D-Edit Authoring Tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics provides a six-page summary of X3D-Edit features and usage. Also available online: Powerpoint slides and html slides. This position paper was presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Production Processes for 3D Computer Graphics Applications, Snowbird Utah, June 2-4 2002.
• VRML Import capability for conversion to X3D, using the NIST Vrml97ToX3d translator.
  • Select File then Import to get a file-dialog box:
  • Select a VRML file (SomeScene.wrl) from the file-dialog box:
  • Select option Clipoard or else New Document:
  • Now, depending on your choice, either paste from clipboard on top of an existing scene X3D node, or else select the newly created document. Pasting into a new document on top of the X3D node is preferred because it has a proper DTD attached.
  • Important final step: Save As a new .x3d scene. Otherwise you may get an obscure console message (java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1). Further editing and VRML/HTML stylesheet outputs will now work.
• Tooltip support: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Work on additional translations is underway to further improve Internationalization (i18n) support for X3D tooltips.
• Three XSLT translation buttons now provided: Internet Explorer VRML, Netscape VRML, Internet Explorer HTML. This makes it easier to test scenes in multiple browsers, and provides better support for DIS Profile which only runs under Netscape security model.
• Added accessType (eventIn/eventOut/field/exposedField) information for all VRML 97 nodes.
• Now bundling the NIST Vrml97ToX3d translator in the x3d/content directory. This distribution now includes Vrml97ToX3d.jar and Vrml97ToX3d.bat. We have integrated this functionality as a VRML Import button in X3D-Edit.
• Updated support for recent improvements for the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) profile.
• Attribute validation is now reported during stylesheet translation from X3D to VRML.
• A large set of detected errors and warnings are displayed in the status window.
• Numerous dependency checks reveal semantic errors with Prototype, Script, field, fieldValue, ROUTE scoping and IS constructs.
• Support for revised LatticeXvl (XvlShell tag).
• HTML output has improved color coding, enabling better readability and manual annotation of ROUTE and IS relationships.

Internationalization (i18n):

• Tooltip pages are now available for Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
• The tooltip translations are recorded using XML configuration files, meaning that our future deliverables for VRML 200x/X3D can contain standards-based internationalization (i18n) support.
• X3d-Edit-Chinese.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Chinese.
• X3d-Edit-French.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in French.
• X3d-Edit-German.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in German.
• X3d-Edit-Italian.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Italian.
• X3d-Edit-Spanish.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Spanish.
• Alternatively, modify your environment variable with SET X3dLanguagePreference=Chinese or SET X3dLanguagePreference=French or SET X3dLanguagePreference=German or SET X3dLanguagePreference=Italian or SET X3dLanguagePreference=Spanish. The regular X3D-Edit icons then execute en Français or en Español etc.
• X3d-Edit-English.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in English (overriding any other preference setting).
• Many thanks to our translators.
  • Chinese tooltips: yiqi meng of Nanjing Art Institute, Nanjing China.
  • French tooltips: Frederic Roussille of Ecole Nationale des Ingenieurs de Tarbes (ENIT), Tarbe France
  • German tooltips: Raimund Dachselt and Johannes Richter of the Multimedia Technology Group, Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
  • Italian tooltips: Roberto Ranon of the L'Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
  • Spanish tooltips: Guadalupe Muñoz Martín of of University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid España.
• Editor profile configuration files:
• Of interest: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internationalization (i18n)
• Candidate translators: please subscribe and advise www-vrml@web3d.org of your intentions so we can avoid duplication of effort. There is plenty of good work to share!
• Translators (and authors) please note that any special characters need to be translated into 'character entities' which are well described in the HTML 4.01 Recommendation, chapter 24 'Character entity references in HTML 4,'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
• Upcoming work: place all tooltips under CVS control for better maintenance.
• Upcoming work: integrate tooltips with X3D Schema.
• Other language translations are welcome. Please contact Don Brutzman (brutzman at nps.navy.mil) for further details about how to volunteer - you'll be in good company.

'How are tools put together' diagram:XML Tool Relationships for X3D.

Education: We're using X3D-Edit to teach a VRML/X3D course. Reducing content bugs and eliminating the syntax idiosyncracies of VRML really helps! Using the beta version January-March 2000, we got through the material in the VRML 2.0 Sourcebook one week faster than in previous versions of this course. We are making similarly excellent progress using the current version of X3D-Edit. X3D versions of sourcebook examples (270 total!) are available on the X3D Examples for Vrml 2.0 Sourcebook site.

Suggestions and improvements regarding X3D-Edit installation/usability are welcome. Discussion of this tool occurs on the www-vrml mail list.

Additional instructions for Mac are available in README.X3D-Edit.Mac.txt thanks to the ever mac-nificent Steve Guynup (guynups@gra.com)

Installation Setup

You will need to be logged in with administrator permissions to perform some of these installations.

Recommended installation: AutoInstaller. X3D-Edit AutoInstaller for various operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix/Solaris).

Once installed, and once you have a VRML plugin (step 1 which follows), you can update to new revisions by skipping ahead to step 7 and simply extracting the updates on top.

If you prefer to install X3D-Edit manually, follow steps 1-6 instead of using the autoinstaller.

1. Install one of these free Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) plugins in your web browsers. These plugins can work with any combination of Netscape and Internet Explorer.
   • Cortona 3.1 by Parallel Graphics
   • CosmoPlayer 2.1.1 (~3MB)
   • Karmanaut mirror site: CosmoPlayer 2.1.1 plugin for Netscape or Internet Explorer. (~3MB)
   • MediaMachines Flux X3D/VRML97 plugin for Internet Explorer. Experimental, now SIGGRAPH 2004 Beta 2 release.
   C:jdk1.3.1, not C:jdk1.3.1bin). You might also find the JRE installed in a directory like C:Program FilesJavaSoftJRE1.3.1_09
2. No 'proxy host' entry is needed, this is for use behind restrictive firewalls.
3. Default values on other entries work fine.
4. Go ahead and view the example 'addressbook' example. If you get an 'Out of environment space' error, see the bugfix below.
5. Once installed, Xeena details can be found on the Help (user guide) page, installation README page, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages.
6. Once installed, test installation by running the Xeena AddressBook DTD Example.
7. If you need an unzip program, get PKZIP (from http://www.pkware.com).
   Make sure your unzip program's preferences install the zip into your top-level directory on C: and preserve all subdirectory folder names (the X3D-Edit code unravels/merges everything into C:www.web3d.orgx3dcontent* )
   You can also unzip a zipfile using Java as follows. Be sure to run this from your topmost (root) subdirectory.
   C:>jar -xvf X3D-Edit.zip
8. For GeoVRML extension support, you may need to also install GeoVRML.
9. For DIS-Java-VRML extension support, you may need to also install DIS-Java-VRML.

Download Updates

10. Download the X3D-Edit distribution (~12 MB) from
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3D-Edit.zip
    
11. Recommended installation: download the X3dExamples distributions
    Unzip from your top-level directory as follows:
    C:>jar -xvf X3D-Examples.zip
    Again, make sure your unzip preferences preserve the subdirectory folder names and install the zip into your top-level directory on C: (it unravels into C:www.web3d.orgx3dcontent* )
    The X3D Examples are also viewable online at
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples and
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Vrml2.0Sourcebook.
    
12. Recommended installation: download the ConformanceNist Examples distribution (~150 MB) from
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/ConformanceNistSuite.zip
    The ConformanceNist Examples are also viewable online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/ConformanceNist.
    Unzip from your top-level directory as follows:
    C:>jar -xvf ConformanceNistExamples.zip
13. All done!
    • Time to run X3D-Edit.
    • See Usage for further X3D-Edit directions.
    • See Bugfixes if you've encountered trouble with X3D-Edit.
    • See X3D/VRML Help for further X3D resources.
    • Feedback welcome!

Features

• Intuitive, powerful user interface
• Always creates well-formed scene graphs: nodes only fit where allowed
• Validates X3D scenes for VRML 97 profile and Core profile
• Automatically translate X3D scene into VRML and launch browser to view results
• A huge set of example X3D scenes
• Tool tips and hints pop up for each element and attribute, helping you learn how VRML/X3D scene graphs really work
• Platform independence using Java
• Extensible Style Sheet for Transformations (XSLT) translation: X3dToVrml97.xslt (backwards compatibility with VRML 97), X3dToXhtml.xslt (tagset pretty printing), and X3dWrap.xsl / X3dUnwrap.xsl (for 'wrapper tag' addition/removal)
• Support for DIS-Java-VRML extension nodes, specified by the DIS-Java-VRML Working Group (http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/vrtp/dis-java-vrml) with ongoing design testing & evaluation.
• Support for editing georeferenced GeoVRML nodes, specified by the GeoVRML 1.0 profile (http://www.geovrml.org/1.0/doc).
• Support for draft H-Anim 2001 Humanoid Animation Specification and editing avatar Humanoid Animation nodes. Also support for H-Anim 1.1 profile (http://ece.uwaterloo.ca:80/~h-anim/spec1.1)
• Support for proposed new nodes KeySensor and StringSensor. However, note that Prototype support is not yet implemented for keyboard nodes.
• Support for proposed Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) Surface extension nodes, proposed by blaxxun interactive with ongoing development & evaluation. However, note that complete Prototype support is not yet implemented for Nurbs nodes.
• Scene graph printing using tags or icons (on some printers, anyway.. this Xeena feature is buggy)

Details

X3D-Edit uses the compact XML tagset defined by the X3D Compact Document Type Definition (DTD)

• more compact tagset: eliminated while attribute containerField denotes default parent-child relationship names, node illegal (employ USE='nameTargetDEF' attribute instead).
• Global 'class' attribute reserved for future use by XML Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), similar to HTML stylesheet use.
• IMPORT/EXPORT experimental support provided for routing values into and out of Inline nodes.
• element no longer allowed, due to lack of type checking on node and attribute values, as well as redundant functionality. Utilize @USE attributes instead, for example

Status

X3D-Edit 3.1 implements the Extensible 3D (X3D) tagset for the next-generation Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML 200x). X3D-Edit also exercises various X3D graphics rendering and translation implementations.

Latest updates of software and examples: see build.date.X3D-Edit.txt.

Version 3.1 matches X3D 3.0 International Specification (Summer 2004) and adding components from X3D Amendment 1 (Winter 2005).

Completed v3.1 components:

• Updated x3d-3.1.dtd
• CAD component
• Programmable shaders component
• Cube map environmental texturing component
• LocalFog and FogCoordinate
• Texture3D component
• Miscellaneous updates

Also ongoing: testing X3D Schema (x3d-3.1.xsd) against several thousand X3D examples using a project file for XML Spy.

Functional improvements:

• Web3D Specifications for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics, Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) and the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML 97) are now included.
• X3D-Edit Authoring Tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics provides a six-page summary of X3D-Edit features and usage. Also available online: Powerpoint slides and html slides. This position paper was presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Production Processes for 3D Computer Graphics Applications, Snowbird Utah, June 2-4 2002.
• VRML Import capability for conversion to X3D, using the NIST Vrml97ToX3d translator.
  • Select File then Import to get a file-dialog box:
  • Select a VRML file (SomeScene.wrl) from the file-dialog box:
  • Select option Clipoard or else New Document:
  • Now, depending on your choice, either paste from clipboard on top of an existing scene X3D node, or else select the newly created document. Pasting into a new document on top of the X3D node is preferred because it has a proper DTD attached.
  • Important final step: Save As a new .x3d scene. Otherwise you may get an obscure console message (java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1). Further editing and VRML/HTML stylesheet outputs will now work.
• Tooltip support: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Work on additional translations is underway to further improve Internationalization (i18n) support for X3D tooltips.
• Three XSLT translation buttons now provided: Internet Explorer VRML, Netscape VRML, Internet Explorer HTML. This makes it easier to test scenes in multiple browsers, and provides better support for DIS Profile which only runs under Netscape security model.
• Added accessType (eventIn/eventOut/field/exposedField) information for all VRML 97 nodes.
• Now bundling the NIST Vrml97ToX3d translator in the x3d/content directory. This distribution now includes Vrml97ToX3d.jar and Vrml97ToX3d.bat. We have integrated this functionality as a VRML Import button in X3D-Edit.
• Updated support for recent improvements for the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) profile.
• Attribute validation is now reported during stylesheet translation from X3D to VRML.
• A large set of detected errors and warnings are displayed in the status window.
• Numerous dependency checks reveal semantic errors with Prototype, Script, field, fieldValue, ROUTE scoping and IS constructs.
• Support for revised LatticeXvl (XvlShell tag).
• HTML output has improved color coding, enabling better readability and manual annotation of ROUTE and IS relationships.

Internationalization (i18n):

• Tooltip pages are now available for Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
• The tooltip translations are recorded using XML configuration files, meaning that our future deliverables for VRML 200x/X3D can contain standards-based internationalization (i18n) support.
• X3d-Edit-Chinese.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Chinese.
• X3d-Edit-French.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in French.
• X3d-Edit-German.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in German.
• X3d-Edit-Italian.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Italian.
• X3d-Edit-Spanish.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in Spanish.
• Alternatively, modify your environment variable with SET X3dLanguagePreference=Chinese or SET X3dLanguagePreference=French or SET X3dLanguagePreference=German or SET X3dLanguagePreference=Italian or SET X3dLanguagePreference=Spanish. The regular X3D-Edit icons then execute en Français or en Español etc.
• X3d-Edit-English.bat launches X3D-Edit using tooltips in English (overriding any other preference setting).
• Many thanks to our translators.
  • Chinese tooltips: yiqi meng of Nanjing Art Institute, Nanjing China.
  • French tooltips: Frederic Roussille of Ecole Nationale des Ingenieurs de Tarbes (ENIT), Tarbe France
  • German tooltips: Raimund Dachselt and Johannes Richter of the Multimedia Technology Group, Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
  • Italian tooltips: Roberto Ranon of the L'Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
  • Spanish tooltips: Guadalupe Muñoz Martín of of University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid España.
• Editor profile configuration files:
• Of interest: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internationalization (i18n)
• Candidate translators: please subscribe and advise www-vrml@web3d.org of your intentions so we can avoid duplication of effort. There is plenty of good work to share!
• Translators (and authors) please note that any special characters need to be translated into 'character entities' which are well described in the HTML 4.01 Recommendation, chapter 24 'Character entity references in HTML 4,'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
• Upcoming work: place all tooltips under CVS control for better maintenance.
• Upcoming work: integrate tooltips with X3D Schema.
• Other language translations are welcome. Please contact Don Brutzman (brutzman at nps.navy.mil) for further details about how to volunteer - you'll be in good company.

'How are tools put together' diagram:XML Tool Relationships for X3D.

Education: We're using X3D-Edit to teach a VRML/X3D course. Reducing content bugs and eliminating the syntax idiosyncracies of VRML really helps! Using the beta version January-March 2000, we got through the material in the VRML 2.0 Sourcebook one week faster than in previous versions of this course. We are making similarly excellent progress using the current version of X3D-Edit. X3D versions of sourcebook examples (270 total!) are available on the X3D Examples for Vrml 2.0 Sourcebook site.

Suggestions and improvements regarding X3D-Edit installation/usability are welcome. Discussion of this tool occurs on the www-vrml mail list.

Additional instructions for Mac are available in README.X3D-Edit.Mac.txt thanks to the ever mac-nificent Steve Guynup (guynups@gra.com)

Installation Setup

You will need to be logged in with administrator permissions to perform some of these installations.

Recommended installation: AutoInstaller. X3D-Edit AutoInstaller for various operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix/Solaris).

Once installed, and once you have a VRML plugin (step 1 which follows), you can update to new revisions by skipping ahead to step 7 and simply extracting the updates on top.

If you prefer to install X3D-Edit manually, follow steps 1-6 instead of using the autoinstaller.

1. Install one of these free Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) plugins in your web browsers. These plugins can work with any combination of Netscape and Internet Explorer.
   • Cortona 3.1 by Parallel Graphics
   • CosmoPlayer 2.1.1 (~3MB)
   • Karmanaut mirror site: CosmoPlayer 2.1.1 plugin for Netscape or Internet Explorer. (~3MB)
   • MediaMachines Flux X3D/VRML97 plugin for Internet Explorer. Experimental, now SIGGRAPH 2004 Beta 2 release.
   C:jdk1.3.1, not C:jdk1.3.1bin). You might also find the JRE installed in a directory like C:Program FilesJavaSoftJRE1.3.1_09
2. No 'proxy host' entry is needed, this is for use behind restrictive firewalls.
3. Default values on other entries work fine.
4. Go ahead and view the example 'addressbook' example. If you get an 'Out of environment space' error, see the bugfix below.
5. Once installed, Xeena details can be found on the Help (user guide) page, installation README page, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages.
6. Once installed, test installation by running the Xeena AddressBook DTD Example.
7. If you need an unzip program, get PKZIP (from http://www.pkware.com).
   Make sure your unzip program's preferences install the zip into your top-level directory on C: and preserve all subdirectory folder names (the X3D-Edit code unravels/merges everything into C:www.web3d.orgx3dcontent* )
   You can also unzip a zipfile using Java as follows. Be sure to run this from your topmost (root) subdirectory.
   C:>jar -xvf X3D-Edit.zip
8. For GeoVRML extension support, you may need to also install GeoVRML.
9. For DIS-Java-VRML extension support, you may need to also install DIS-Java-VRML.

Download Updates

10. Download the X3D-Edit distribution (~12 MB) from
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3D-Edit.zip
    
11. Recommended installation: download the X3dExamples distributions
    Unzip from your top-level directory as follows:
    C:>jar -xvf X3D-Examples.zip
    Again, make sure your unzip preferences preserve the subdirectory folder names and install the zip into your top-level directory on C: (it unravels into C:www.web3d.orgx3dcontent* )
    The X3D Examples are also viewable online at
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples and
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Vrml2.0Sourcebook.
    
12. Recommended installation: download the ConformanceNist Examples distribution (~150 MB) from
    http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/ConformanceNistSuite.zip
    The ConformanceNist Examples are also viewable online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/ConformanceNist.
    Unzip from your top-level directory as follows:
    C:>jar -xvf ConformanceNistExamples.zip
13. All done!
    • Time to run X3D-Edit.
    • See Usage for further X3D-Edit directions.
    • See Bugfixes if you've encountered trouble with X3D-Edit.
    • See X3D/VRML Help for further X3D resources.
    • Feedback welcome!

Features

• Intuitive, powerful user interface
• Always creates well-formed scene graphs: nodes only fit where allowed
• Validates X3D scenes for VRML 97 profile and Core profile
• Automatically translate X3D scene into VRML and launch browser to view results
• A huge set of example X3D scenes
• Tool tips and hints pop up for each element and attribute, helping you learn how VRML/X3D scene graphs really work
• Platform independence using Java
• Extensible Style Sheet for Transformations (XSLT) translation: X3dToVrml97.xslt (backwards compatibility with VRML 97), X3dToXhtml.xslt (tagset pretty printing), and X3dWrap.xsl / X3dUnwrap.xsl (for 'wrapper tag' addition/removal)
• Support for DIS-Java-VRML extension nodes, specified by the DIS-Java-VRML Working Group (http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/vrtp/dis-java-vrml) with ongoing design testing & evaluation.
• Support for editing georeferenced GeoVRML nodes, specified by the GeoVRML 1.0 profile (http://www.geovrml.org/1.0/doc).
• Support for draft H-Anim 2001 Humanoid Animation Specification and editing avatar Humanoid Animation nodes. Also support for H-Anim 1.1 profile (http://ece.uwaterloo.ca:80/~h-anim/spec1.1)
• Support for proposed new nodes KeySensor and StringSensor. However, note that Prototype support is not yet implemented for keyboard nodes.
• Support for proposed Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) Surface extension nodes, proposed by blaxxun interactive with ongoing development & evaluation. However, note that complete Prototype support is not yet implemented for Nurbs nodes.
• Scene graph printing using tags or icons (on some printers, anyway.. this Xeena feature is buggy)

Details

X3D-Edit uses the compact XML tagset defined by the X3D Compact Document Type Definition (DTD)

• more compact tagset: eliminated while attribute containerField denotes default parent-child relationship names, node illegal (employ USE='nameTargetDEF' attribute instead).
• Global 'class' attribute reserved for future use by XML Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), similar to HTML stylesheet use.
• IMPORT/EXPORT experimental support provided for routing values into and out of Inline nodes.
• element no longer allowed, due to lack of type checking on node and attribute values, as well as redundant functionality. Utilize @USE attributes instead, for example

Usage

1. Launch icons for X3D-Edit are placed on the Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 desktops.

   A copy of the X3D-Edit launch icon is also available in the C:www.web3d.orgx3dcontent subdirectory.

2. Windows shell invocation:

3. Unix shell invocation:

4. Xeena details. Good things still worth checking out: local copy of the installation README helps troubleshoot installation problems. You can learn all about the user interface by reading the Help (user guide). Anything else might be found on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Compact Form

This section no longer pertains to the current version of X3D.You can safely ignore it, documentation of the compact and compromise forms is retained for archival purposes only.

You can easily simplify legacy content to remove 'wrapper tags' ( etc.) by using X3dUnwrap.This also lets you upgrade to X3D-Edit version 1.7 from earlier versions.

Select Tools then Process XSL from the top menu. Use the X3dUnwrap.xsl stylesheet as shown to unwrap your scene.Backing up your original file (or saving to a different filename) is a good idea.The Process XSL window can be stretched left-right for easier reading.

The stylesheet also updates the tagset document type definition (DTD) from x3d-compromise.dtdtox3d-compact.dtd.

Example screen snapshots show'before' (compromise wrapper tags, X3D-Edit version 1.6)and'after' (compact unwrapped, X3D-Edit version 1.7)scene graphs.

Developers

Some miniscule detail about this project follows.This is primarily for documentation purposes and is not needed for regular use. Hercules dj control air for mac.

Alternate Usage for Developers

Besides X3D-Edit.bat, example Xeena editor invocations under Windows follow.Edit to match your your locally installed subdirectories as needed.

There are many example invocations and shortcuts in the Makefile.

Alternate Installation Directory

Not recommended (which means 'skip this section'). If you insist on changing the installation directory (!) then you will need to edit the second line (DOCTYPE) of x3d-compromise.dtd, and you will also need to edit the following files: x3d-compromise.profile.X3D-Edit-1.6, x3d-compromise.profile, X3D-Edit-1.6.bat, X3D-Edit.bat and Makefile (if used) to match your local directory structure. You will likely have to edit the examples as well, though if you are connected to the network, Xeena will try to find the website version of the DTD.

XSL Stylesheets and Translation Utilities

• X3D to VRML 97 translation is via XSLT script X3dToVrml97.xslt and batch file X3dToVrml97.bat

• There are several compliant Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) processors available because the W3C XSL Recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt) is stable (November 1999).

• One excellent XSL transformation engine is SAXON at http://saxon.sourceforge.net - this includes 'Instant Saxon,' a 250KB Windows command-line executable.

• X3dToVrml97.bat shows how to invoke saxon and the following tools.

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• X3D to HTML translation is also provided (for pretty printing) via X3dToXhtml.xslt and X3dToXhtml.bat

• Trapezium's vorlon tool for VRML syntax checking is available at http://www.trapezium.com

• Bob Crispen's vpp tool at http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrml for VRML pretty printing. An edited copy of vpp is included in this distribution with bigger MAXBUFSIZE for our big test-file comments. Thanks Bob!

Bugfixes

Many bugs are avoided altogether (especially Windows ME and 98) by using theX3D-Edit Auto Installerfor various operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix/Solaris).

• Windows workaround #1: open X3D scenes one at a time by invoking X3D-Edit via the command line. Example:

  Example console output shows normal X3D-Edit operation. A normal program exit allows the executing batch file to convert the DOCTYPE back to final form.

• Windows workaround #2: open X3D scenes one at a time by clicking on them from Windows Explorer. Configure Windows Explorer to recognize .x3d files via the Tools menu, selecting Folder Options and entering the .x3d file type as follows.

  Tools -> Folder Options -> X3D'/>

• Java-based workaround #3: use the X3dDtdChecker tool to convert DTD references.
• Manual workaround #4: refer to the X3D Scene Authoring Hints and use a text editor to manually change the DOCTYPE.

1. Xeena/X3D-Edit works under JDK 1.4, except for the 'Allowed Nodes' pane.Workarounds: use the other panes,install the X3D-Edit Auto Installer version, or supplement JDK 1.4 withJDK 1.3.1_09 instead.

2. A common installation problem follows.This can occur under Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Millenium (ME).The fix is the same either way.

Alternative for Windows Millenium (ME) from Tom Greenwald, NPS.

You may need to reboot your computer for these changes to take effect.You will also have to repeat this step whenever you update X3D-Edit, so youmay prefer the permanent change above.

To fix this problem: uninstall Xeeena 1.1,installXeena 1.2 EA,and again extract X3D-Edit.zip(to correct the Xeena CLASSPATH bug).Or simply uninstall X3D-Edit and use theautoinstallerinstead.

The following obscure message may appear in the console:

Fix: save the imported scene as a file. This may require renaming your scene if it was originally a read-only file (such as newScene.x3d).The XSL buttons now work.See above for more instructions on using the VRML97 Import capability.

You will need 128MB of RAM or more. Yes, 128.

6. The window goes blank and locks up before displaying a scene.

This is likely a DOCTYPE/DTD problem: Xeena is attempting to retrieve the DOCTYPE/DTD via the network, without success. When using Java 1.3 or earlier, this problem can only be fixed by replacing the DOCTYPE/DTD or else by connecting to the network, thus gaining access to the final DTD url.

Fixes and workarounds:

• upgrade to Java 1.4, 1.5 or later so that X3dDtdChecker.java can fix this problem at launch time (drag/drop or clicking on file icon)
• connect to the network for X3D scenes using the final X3D DOCTYPE/DTD
• manually edit the scene first (in another XML/text editor) to use the X3D Transitional DTD. See the X3D Scene Authoring Hints for further details on DOCTYPE.

The http proxy server feature is for loading a file via the Web. Not a very common setting, but nice to have nevertheless.

You will need to uncomment and update the line in X3D-Edit's modified C:IBMXeenaXeena.batfor set PROXY_SETTINGS. Warning: we've had trouble with this feature under Windows 98.

Make is not necessary to run X3D-Edit, it is only used for X3D-Edit source development.The Makefile is being replaced by an Ant build file.

Make is available via the Cygnus distribution of GNU Utilities for PCs at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin. The Cygwin distribution provides Unix command line and utilities on Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Don't forget to upgrade your PATH with something like C:cygnuscygwin-b20H-i586-cygwin32bin;. Once Make is installed, edit the Makefile filename/directory definitions to match your local installation. There are a bunch of alternate example invocations in the Makefile if you know how to grok Make.

Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the installation directory for Java on your system and X3D-Edit will use Java accordingly.

Install a VRML or X3D plugin in your Web browser.

The following screen snapshots illustrate this problem and 2 solutions.

When the plugin is blocked from showing content, the following warning bar appears near the top of the browser.Right click and select 'Allow blocked content..' then select 'Yes' to confirm.

Correct integration of the plugin then appears:

You can permanently reset this permission by selecting Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options.. -> Advancedand then under Security select 'Allow active content to run in files on My Computer' as follows:

Similar selections can be made for automatically running content from a CD, over the Internet, etc.

Menu shortcuts are provided under windows to easily retrieve updates. Always extract all .zip files to the C: root directory.

13. IBM Haifa was very attentive in responding to bug reports regarding Xeena, the interface tool. Unfortunately, despite the popularity of Xeena, their team is no longer working on this tool. We hope to fix known Xeena bugs someday. Nevertheless it still usually works fine for X3D-Edit.

Revised: 22 December 2007

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Maintained byDon Brutzman(brutzman at nps.navy.mil)

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This page is available online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/README.X3D-Edit.html