Review of BS Contact 7

As posted by wildpeaks on the comp.lang.vrml newsgroup.

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Hi all,

Here is a [46 pages] article about BS Contact 7's new features (also
has some examples) :
http://www.web3d-fr.com/articles/Bitmanagement/Contact7.02/bscontact702en.pdf

Version francaise :
http://www.web3d-fr.com/articles/Bitmanagement/Contact7.02/bscontact702fr.pdf


Cya,
Cecile

Also the bitmanagement website release notes
http://www.bitmanagement.com/developer/contact/relnotes70.html

And the download page for BS Contact 7
http://www.bitmanagement.de/download/playerdownload.en.html#BS_Contact_VRML/X3D

are you one of these men who accept to have that logo flying ? fab ?

I can't ( but I understand that "they" muts live from their work ....at Bitamanagement ...

hiummm
but thanx

yes i agree but its an excellent browser!
i like all the options, especially transparent
and stereo seperation (NOW we are talking!!!!)
but i still need to find red blue glasses hehehehe

I got an email from bitmanagement about BS Contact 7 and lots of other 3d related news.

Of interest:

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Application development eased with Prototypes. Bitmanagement will soon offer a fully documented X3D “Prototype” library, thereby simplifying the process of application development. The library will include approximately 150 prototypes, which encapsulate common but tedious programming tasks (like user interface design, for example) into customizable, “drag ’n’ drop” nodes. The Bitmanagement Prototype library aims to reduce development time and maximize return on investment for customers developing 3D and multimedia content projects.

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“How to” guide simplies BS Contact VRML/X3D 3D usage. Comprehensive guidance is provided in a new tutorial for BS Contact VRML/X3D, which will be available soon on the Bitmanagement website. It presents additional instructions as to how our 3D software can be integrated into customer projects and is written in a style suited for guided classroom use. The tutorial was developed in response to user requests and feedback.

But neither of these are out yet, just a sneak peak from Bitmanagement. I'll be taking a lot of interest in the Proto collection, assuming its available to everyone and not just people who buy the SDK. I don't think they would make it part of the SDK though, as not every content developer needs/wants the SDK.

Great news !!!!

Release 7.1 with SWF !!!!


http://www.bitmanagement.com/developer/contact/relnotes71.html#flashmovietexture

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The X3D node MovieTexture also supports SWF files. The new flag exposedField SFBool stream FALSE for MovieTexture nodes allows the direct download by the movie renderer. With the default stream FALSE http urls are first downloaded to the cache.




Transparent background
The node FlashMovieTexture renders SWF files or streams to a texture and allows interaction with the embedded Adobe Flashplayer. With the option transparent=true Flash movies can have background color key transparency.

[b]


I try to install it on my old puter but I have probs with

who succeeded ??

bon pour moi la question est réglée !!

http://dumenieu.free.fr/vrml/totry/flash_test_alaincam.wrl


marche nickel !

fait à la va vite



BS 7.1 is here

http://www.bitmanagement.com/download/playerdownload.en.html#BS_Contact_VRML/X3D




test here with youtube

http://www.bitmanagement.com/developer/contact/examples/media/flash/flash_youtube.wrl

ahah !!!

good one !!

I wondered why I had flassh working in vrml a short time
( around 2005 when qbert tried it )

and then ..no more

now I know LOL

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wildpeaks


Location: Strasbourg (France)
Post subject:
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:22 am

Well, the thing with Flash is that Contact uses the RealPlayer G2 support of flash for displaying it, and that it changed in RealOne, that s why there has been things not working anymore.

searching all that stuff on

http://www.x79.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=556&highlight=flash+movie

hum 300 euros .....

http://www.bitmanagement.de/documents/PriceList.en.pdf

after many trying installing BS 7.1 on my old puter

that page tell me

http://www.bitmanagement.de/php-bin/CheckVersion.php?version=7.031&build=bsContactVrml&Date=Feb%2013%202007

that I have 7.0 !!!!

Alain right click and select "BS Contact vrml/x3d" > "about BS Contact vrml/x3d..."

That will tell you the proper version number, unlike the bitmanagement page which is out of date or broken occasionally.

hum thanx fabricator

I installed it now on my XP puter ,

wrls works BUT I havent the chat working now

it was OK in Crazy with 7.0




btw I tried

http://www.bitmanagement.com/developer/contact/examples/physics/tour/physic_tour.wrl

it is phantastic !

i have the link wrl no problem for see it ... but question : nothing moove ? .... normal?

not normal

and yes it is possible to open the wrl with 6.0 or 7.0
but to see the objetcs falling you need 7.1

7.2


http://www.bitmanagement.com/download/playerdownload.en.html#BS_Contact_VRML/X3D








http://www.bitmanagement.com/developer/contact/relnotes72.html#72release


But Jean-Michel , Web3d-fr says that vrmlpad will not open the files

because

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ils sont maintenant 100% UTF8. A priori, VRMLPad n'est pas 100% UTF8 donc il faut passer par des outils comme notepad++ pour convertir les fichiers VRML ...

And it is still not working on IE 8 !!

Does it have a logo?

I dont want to try it because

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But Jean-Michel , Web3d-fr says that vrmlpad will not open the files

because

Citation:
ils sont maintenant 100% UTF8. A priori, VRMLPad n'est pas 100% UTF8 donc il faut passer par des outils comme notepad++ pour convertir les fichiers VRML ...

and tutancamon gave a link recently about another editor ,
but the link doenst work ,
or the editor , or tutanc

( scuse , just a joke tutanc

btw I wanted to post that on web3d-fr ,

but I tought "be calm , alain"

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I have a bug with the new version !