Hi Blender also has/had browser plugin. There's a maybe not up do date plugin to display webpages in cs. There's offline gecko project that you may look at to do the same thing.
You should check with your customer the exact requirement for the project. Can he define what is small virtual world, how many objects, which scale, a house or a city? How much the visuals should be good? Does it even has to be 3d, what is the size limit for art and plugin. Does he even think you can ask visitors to install a plugin or they would never do so (you can mostly considere flash is always installed compared to any other plugin)? Would he even allows a separate app, same as above. As for as download size per project and complexity is it would go like this: flash < blender < cs Somehow in the middle you should also ask yourself that if this is a commercial project, how much budget you have what time you have to do somethign and how much of that time you can spend develloping/learning something new.(exmple if the project is quite short, myself as web dev and not knowing c++ or python enought to actually use CS, i d go for a stupid imagemap and javascript in the webpage, expected to work everywhere, fast to do, very limited visuals) Pascal On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:30 -0500, Tim Shannon wrote: > I'm sure I'll probably get flamed six ways from Sunday, but you could > take a look at Silverlight / Moonlight. I hear there are some pretty > impressive 3d capabilities possible with it. > > Although the problem is that it's not widely used yet, and may never > take off, but there's a good chance it'll be around for a while simply > for the fact that Microsoft is backing it, and they can afford to eat > the development cost and still push it. > > Other than that, I think your only option for Crystal Space is to use > a link to download and open up an external application. > > You might want to also google wild tangent. I believe they make 3d > web games, but I may be mistaken. > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:55 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crystalspace & Cel as a browser pluging. > > Is this just a crazy dream or is can it become real? A member > of the CS > community has created a celstart plugin for firefox so > technically it can be > done. > > I am currently working for a coustomer who wants a small > virtual world in > their webpage. I have been looking at different technical > solutions for this > but if- it could be done in cs it would give me incredible > artistic power to > make some really nice looking graphics compared to the > alternatives. > > Her are some reasons why I think it would be very > difficult/impossible to use > cs/cel for this project: > > 1 Deployment of software on so many different > platforms/browsers and hw. > This as I see it is the main problem. With the deployment of > this type of > plugin comes hw issues, browser version issues os issues, > antivirus/firewall > issues, and so on. > This is for example why I am seriously considering using flash > even thought > the graphics would su** and it would have serious feature > limitations and > flash is not a developer friendly platform to use. > > 2 Size of the plugin and library dependences. How big would > the plugin be? > Flash is about 4 mb. (1.5 mb for the activeX plugin.) > > 3 Hw requirements. What sort of hw would be needed to run a > sc/cel > application? Could it run for example on a normal modern > laptop? (in this > particular case the target users are not heavy computer users > or gamers. Just > ordinary users.) > > 4 Why make it a browser plugin at all? If flash (Flash will > probably never be > a good choice for 3D because Adobe doesn't want to add the > features needed to > do so. According to there standard policy about keeping it > simple.) > So if Flash and other 3D web plugins dosn't work why not make > it a standalone > application? > > Sorry for the long text. 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