Subsections

• 8.6.1 Version history
• 8.6.2 Things to do

   
8.6 Useless stuff (Version History / ToDo List)

   
8.6.1 Version history

Very roughly ! Also note that sometimes, contents can change on an hourly basis, bad internal links mean that the document is being processed ... just wait a few minutes and try again.

1.

0.1 - Spring 1996 written in ONE day, i.e. they after I learned a little VRML I so please be careful!,

2.

0.2 - Spring 1996 minor corrections

3.

0.3 - Beg Feb 1997 Conversion to VRML 2

4.

0.4 - Mid Feb 1997 better structuring of contents

5.

0.5 - End Feb 1997 Some interactive VRML, also added appendix (fields and toto list)

6.

0.6 - March 2 1997 Minor corrections and additions

7.

0.7 - March 12 1997 Minor corrections, replaced example theorem macro (badly handled by the HTML translator) with tables. Discovered Intervista's WorldView and fixed Java(vrml)script examples.

8.

0.8 - March 17 1997 Started working on VRML generation

9.

0.9 - April 18 1997 Started cleaning up the section on moving interactive VRML

10.

0.10a - Jan 29 1998 Started a cleaning action again (including moving examples files into different places).

11.

0.10b - Rough draft section on the EAI

12.

0.10c - Draft section intro to the EAI, style sheet for netscape 4 users

13.

1.0 - March 5 98 - First ``official'' version. Means that most stuff should be useful to the audience (not perfect!).

14.

1.1a - March 12 98 - Fixed Tiny3D-2 applets (somewhat). Added Color Demonstration applet. Fixed a few typos. Started a chapter on animation and avatars.

   
8.6.2 Things to do

Just a short list of what you can expect in some nearer future.

Little things:

• Introduction on ``how to use''

• A ``framed'' page with the list of examples to the left and VRML to the right.

• Fix English

• External Protos (!)

• Add a few JavaScript scripting examples that manipulate SF and MF type fields.

Medium things:

• More on color (Build a color tool that shows in operation all the Material node parameters with a few different light sources).

• Lights

• Viewpoint angles and positioning (Build a tool ?)

• Complex objects (non-simple shapes)

• tricks to make your scene look good

Big things:

• An introduction to humanoid avatars (REAL SOON!)

• Good scenes with simple moving objects
• Good scenes with Javascript

• Scripts with Java (Introduction)

• Multi-user worlds