Re: (Fwd) VRML HUD Images

Holger Grahn (hg@berlin.snafu.de)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:39:09 +01:0

> Stationary Objects (was RE: Billboard Objects)
>
> I too would like to see staionary objects allowed in VRMl scenes (but for
> a different application aesa)
>
> > Is there a way to place images and animations in the *foreground* of the
> > VRML browser window in the same way that you can specify s background image?
> > Using the WWWAnchor's "description" command will allow you to place ascii
> > art up front, but what about other kinds of images? Imagine that you need to
> > reproduce s "cockpit view" with perhaps, crosshairs, directional information
> > and dropdown menus.

This is in not a feature of the VRML 1.0 spec, and I have not seen
in one of the 2.0 proposals.
(Probably it's a new state in ActiveVrml CockpitView =
Cockpit(View)) :-) )

I will experiment with this in GLView by sdding a feature of several
"semi" transparent layers to a scene. So the 3D cockpit will be a
prersndered image masking the scene, other geometry could be drawn on
top and animated with scripts.

Holger
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