Just trying out the new Viewpoint Experience Technology exporter from the PPP - It`s great fun! Plan on getting some character examples off the hard drive and onto the web shortly. You have apparently to obtain a site key first though, so I`m waiting on Viewpoint. Anyone else ahead of me with any examples up yet?

Aha... I see that you can put stuff up, but it is watermarked by the Viewpoint logo until registered. So, you can see the fish swim, and spin him around here: http://www.sunscape.uksysops.com/clownfish.html ;-))

And this is a walking dog: http://www.sunscape.uksysops.com/gsd.html Animation sets (behaviours) to explore next...

Polartech, that is really neat. I didn't notice at first that you can move 'whatever' around with your mouse--looked at the dog from below, etc.--very interesting.

You can zoom with the right button as well.

What's a site key? I haven't heard of this.

Jeff - look for the box when exporting to VET - Site Broadcast Key = I guess having such a code removes the watermrking when published to the www.

Attached Link: https://www.viewpoint.com/registration/register.jsp

Ah I see. I checked it out on their site too. Here's the URL to request a key: https://www.viewpoint.com/registration/register.jsp The key is free for hobbyists (6months) -Jeff

I ran some tests with your Clownfish and Wolf and the results are pretty impressive. Using a dial-up line, after the plug-in is installed, the animations run very quickly on a 56K modem. I also tried it on an older P-I and it was really god-awfull slow. But assuming people use a P-II or P-III, or Mac G3, G4 for web-surfing, this could be a really useful form of attention-getting website graphics- better than banner-ad gifs and even faster than Flash animations- which still take a LONG TIME to load even using a high-speed connection... If the usage license isn't expensive, this really could be an interesting and fast method of displaying simple web animations to end-users surfers, as basic eye-candy effects...

Here's what the license page says... Broadcast License Request To display Viewpoint content from a Web site, the site owner must license a broadcast key. Subscription Licenses - Key prices vary based on features purchased and historical unique visitor traffic. Each broadcast key provides unlimited usage for 12 months. Free Licenses Developers, hobbyists, and educational web site publishers can get a free broadcast key good for unlimited usage. Free broadcast keys are valid for six months and can be renewed on an ongoing basis. To apply, please fill out the information requested below. ************************************** The license key sign-up however seems to require you having possession of your own Apache server- assuming they mean admistrative rights on an Apache server with a registered dot.com - some of this sign-up info isn't clear EXACTLY what they mean by granting this license but an email to Viewpoint hopefully can clear this question up...

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