My apology for posting this comment here. The HTML forum has 1 post from July. I need an answer faster and know some sharp people read this forum.

I’m shifting gears at work. I need to develop a series of web images that can be hot-linked. An example would be a car where you move the mouse over the tire a link alert pops up. It could be either a highlight on the image or a little tab like on google earth. Click the link and go to a different page that tells you all about tires.

I was hoping to make these 3D images. Say I want to sell tires, hubcaps, rims, brake parts, axels, etc from the same picture. I could click on the 2D image and get 15 links. If it was 3D I could spin my virtual car around and line up on the specific part. It would also give my fiddly non-technical customers real visual insight as to where a bearing is, how big it is, and what it does. Teaching is the real point of the website.

I can think of three ways to do this. VRML was written for this but it’s fallen by the wayside. If I want to look at a page I have to stop and install Cortina or some other viewer. My customers are too impatient. Shockwave comes close but my employer hates the games so bad that our internet blocks the site. I could get permissions but I’d have to apply every time I went to a different site. That leaves Quicktime. It’s in just about every browser and already installed. VR bubbles and their lesser known cousin VR objects with links are still supported by the software. I can’t think of anything else that can do what I describe.

I guess I’m saying I’m going over to the Mac side of the force. What I need now is software. Bryce will do flat panos, but no up and down, and no Quicktime objects. Is there any 3D software that saves objects to a Quicktime .MOV file with links?