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view3dscene is a browser for VRML (1.0 and 2.0) and X3D, and a viewer for other 3D model formats (3DS, MD3, Wavefront OBJ, and Collada are handled). It supports viewing the scene in the "Examine" mode and walking in the virtual world with features such as collision detection and gravity. Rendering is done using OpenGL. A built-in ray-tracer allows the generation of images with more effects (like shadows and mirrors) and conforming precisely to the VRML 97 lighting specification. The program can also convert files from 3DS, MD3, and other formats to VRML and pretty-print VRML files. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
The main new features are X3D support and an events mechanism. Many new nodes related to events were implemented: four basic sensor nodes, linear interpolation nodes, and X3D event utilities. The implementation of existing features was improved to take events into account: binding nodes, routing events to GLSL shaders, controlling Inline and InlineLoadControl, and prototypes. MovieTexture is handled, with an extension to load image sequences with full alpha channel. Recording movies is possible. Other new features include Extrusion, BlendMode, KambiInline nodes, new X3D triangles/quads primitives, and HAnim nodes.



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