5 VRML 2 Tutorials

5.1 Indexes, General & Basic

5.1.1 General Tutorials in Slide Format

• Local copy of David R. Nadeau's SIGGraph'98 VRML Tutorial. (The originals are at SDSC). Recommended, it's the standard "slides" tutorial (useful for teaching VRML also)

5.1.2 General Tutorials

• Le Tecfa VRML Primer (a few years old). Quality is not great (since I was learning VRML) but I used it to teach my classes :=). Some of the results are here in loose form.
• Index of Webreference Tutorials/Articles on 3D
• Creating Integrated Web Content with VRML 2.0 by David Frerichs.

5.1.3 General Advice on how to do a VRML project

• VRML That'll Rock Your .wrl by John Shiple and Gabriella Marks ( In Hotwired's WebMonkey)

5.2 Dynamic VRML and Scripting

5.2.1 Javascript Scripting with the Script node

• See also: The Javascript Scripting Reference
• Markus Roskothen's Tutorial Introduction to routing and scripting.

5.2.2 JAVA and VRML - Setting it up - General Issues

• Starting with Netscape 4 you may run into tricky security problems, e.g. if you want to load classes on the client side (e.g. for VermelGen, for Networking). See Communicator Preferences.
• Bob Crispen's hints on how to set up you PC for several clients.
• Tutoriel VRML-JAVA (y compris comment installer les logiciels), locally produced.
• SEE also Dealing with Netscape Securtiy by Justin Couch if you dream writing e.g. applets run locally with Netscape.
• The Virtual Reality Modeling Language and Java by Don Brutzman (PDF article)

5.2.3 JAVA Scripting with the Script node

• See also: The Java Scripting Reference Specification.
• See the VRMLSite Feb/March 97 issues for a JAVA + VRML Tutorial ( part 1 and part 2 by Rodger Lea and Advanced VRML: Special Effects and Concurrency.

5.2.4 VRML Scripting/Generation with the external JAVA/EAI API

• See also: EAI Authoring Interface Working Group and SGI's External Authoring Interface Proposal (EAI). For a conceptual overview, read the "VRML Is - Java Does - And the EAI Can Help" article from which this picture has been stolen.. The reason why it's here: It's a nice example on how to express a concept with a picture. Note that some day the internal and external Java interfaces might be merged.
• Integrating VRML2.0 with Java using Netscape's Live Connect (by Kimbro Staken)
• Tutoriel VRML-JAVA (y compris comment installer les logiciels), locally produced.
• VRML generation A posting to the sony-cp mailing list by Justin Couch.
• VRML 2.0 EAI FAQ (external Java Interface). In case this link is dead, we have a copy (good version I hope).
• SEE also: the general section on JAVA and VRML just above !!
• Creating A Javascript Interface For The Cosmoplayer Vrml Plugin Netscape Tech Note.

5.3 Other & unclassified

5.3.1 VRML generation with CGI

• ASL Finger-spelling in VRML Cool Site, visit.
• See also: Grafman's VR World Examples show what you could do (but source is not available ?).

5.3.2 Multi-user Worlds

• All dead now (2004) ???