Welcome to Xj3D codebase.

This are notes for the 22 March 2004 dev release of Xj3D.


Changes since M8:
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    OpenGL Renderer based on our Aviatrix3D scene graph 
        (http://aviatrix3d.j3d.org) is now fully functional again. Not quite as
	complete as the Java3D, but within 75% of it. Expect the rest to catch 
	up very quickly and you should see on-par capabilities for the core 
	VRML97/X3D capabilities in the next dev release. Our custom extensions
	may take longer to catch up. See http://www.xj3d.org/status.html for 
	more details.

    Xj3DBrowser now supports both renderers

    Device spec: Changed the xj3d-devices.properties file and the handler so
        that you could supply all devices for all renderers in a single file
	rather than one file per renderer.

    SAI: Fixed some bugs that were preventing field changes from nodes that
        were not part of the script's interface from being updated. Other 
	small bug fixes to prevent crashes of various types.

    Binary Format: Lots of work extending the internal APIs to deal with both
        text and binary values for fields. 


Known Issues:
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    OpenGL Picking:
	Something odd is going on with one of our matrix setups. Haven't 
	tracked it down yet. Picking sometimes is accurate and sometimes is
	not. 

    General:
        Huge amounts of garbage generated internally within Java3D's picking
        subsystem using Cone-based objects for those using J3D1.3.0. Fixed for
	1.3.1FCS.

    ECMAScript: Due to a change in Rhino 1.5R4, a number of things broke in our
        code. The changes were an all-or-nothing afair. So we've decided to fix
	the code to work with 1.5R4-1. That means you will need to upgrade your
	copy of Rhino to this version.  As a result, the standalone print()
	method that some browsers support, is no longer supported by us. For your
	code to run, you must use Browser.println() instead.

    MovieTexture
        In order to work, you need to have JMF installed.

    AudioClip
        The Java3D audio capabilities are exceedingly bug-ridden. If you use
	anything before 1.3.1beta, you'll not hear any audio content.

    browser
        GeoVRML and UMEL local resolution not supported in pre-compiled code,
            you need to specify the local installation path in DIYBrowser.java
            and recompile.

License
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