news 6-1-2004 Hello all, I just post 11 FREE video training for cult3D Designer : ° Introducing to Cult3D Designer ° 3DSMAX basic for Cult3D ° Export from 3DSMAX to Cult3D ° using the material editor of Cult3D ° Synchronize between 3DsMAX & Cult3D ° Texture swap & hotspot ° Events & Hide/Unhide ° Sequence and step by step mode ° Conditions & expressions ° Render to texture from 3DSMAX to Cult3D ° Texturing right polygons into 3DSMAX for cult3D The video audio comment is in French, but easily to understand for english speaking. URL OF VIDEO TRAINING : http://www.tdt3d.be/docs.php?pg=cult3d GAME URL : http://www.tdt3d.be/trashcan/mario/ Regards and have good Culting, Saint-Moulin Benoît bsm@zenair.be 3-4-2004 Press Release -- mental images GmbH mental images Acquires Cycore Cult3D Technology BERLIN, Germany and UPPSALA, Sweden (Mar. 01, 2004) -- mental images and Cycore today announced the acquisition by mental images of Cult3D, Cycore's leading interactive 3D software platform for e-business, and all related 3D technology from Cycore. This deal is significant because it will drive widespread adoption and deployment of 3D technology for the Internet. Cult3D is a 3D software application that brings interactive 3D to mainstream devices like PCs, and handheld devices like PDAs and cell phones, regardless of their processing power and graphics capabilities. It is currently used by thousands of Web sites with over 10,000 models in circulation. Customers include major car manufacturers, TV stations, and world leading mobile telephone manufacturers. Advertisement Cult3D will be integrated into mental images's RealityServer(R), a secure, server-based collaboration platform for industries that require the remote collaborative creation, interaction with and visualization of 3D content. Cult3D will complement RealityServer's existing technology. The resulting RealityServer Version 1.5 will be made commercially available in the fourth quarter of 2004. It will provide real time interaction on any device with 3D data of reduced complexity. These are automatically derived from the original CAD or design data contained in the RealityServer database. Users can effortlessly manipulate such light-weight representation of complex 3D content for the creation of photorealistic images of the highest quality from the original data. With the new solution, installation, maintenance and repair tasks for complex industrial products such as aircrafts can be accomplished with the help of a light-weight, wireless device with a display that allows a service technician or even a consumer to remotely interact with the original 3D data on the RealityServer for any part or assembly of parts of the product and to obtain all information about the process of installing or disassembling and reassembling them for troubleshooting, repair and replacement as well as the relevant data base information about these components and their functionality. If required, a service technician or consumer can obtain help from an expert in a joint collaborative session looking at the same data, where the expert now manipulates the 3D data interactively to demonstrate the tasks to be performed to install, maintain, or repair the product. (The expert and the technician can talk to each other at the same time via the Internet or regular cell phones). Similarly, an automobile manufacturer could, for instance, offer potential customers a car configurator with interactive 3D models based on the original computer-aided design, or CAD, data. As customers choose views to look at the car and options, like color, trim, etc., the car models change instantly. As soon as the interaction stops, a photo-realistic, personalized image is generated on the server from the original data, maintaining highest fidelity to the actual product while keeping the original product data securely on the server. This allows a customer to do get an impression of the car matching reality as closely as possible. Following final review of these images as well as of any relevant database information regarding the chosen configuration, an order can be placed and sent directly to the manufacturer's scheduling system. In another scenario, RealityServer with Cult3D technology could be used to deploy personalized multi-player online games. Since most or all computing and image-generation is done on the server, this is an ideal infrastructure for "light-client" solutions, based on cell phones and connected personal digital assistants, or PDAs. Other applications for the technology include remote collaborative training and teaching, collaborative design and engineering, collaborative medical diagnosis and surgery planning, oil and gas exploration, and other data analysis and visualization applications, and broad-band based, interactive on-line entertainment applications such as (single- and multi-user) games with visually extremely rich, photo-realistic content "The full integration of Cult3D into RealityServer, something that could only be done by mental images, will allow us to better serve our partners and customers worldwide by implementing customized RealityServer based applications for them," said Jerry Pettersson, CEO of Cycore. "The integration of our 3D technology adds a proven 3D web content authoring solution and a widely deployable real time interactive client based visualization component to the collaborative server based functionality of RealityServer." Under the terms of the agreement, mental images acquires the source code and all rights to Cult3D and all related 3D technology and Cycore becomes a shareholder in mental images. Additionally, the entire Cult3D development team will join mental images as part of the company's office in Stockholm, Sweden. Cycore will continue to provide support to its existing Cult3D customers and business partners, and become a premier value added system integrator for RealityServer solutions worldwide. "The integration of Cycore's technology into mental images's RealityServer will allow us to provide the most comprehensive, versatile, scalable and powerful software platform for the creation and deployment of web and WLAN based, collaborative 3D applications and 3D application services," said Rolf Herken, President, CEO and CTO of mental images. "Cycore's decision to base their future business on the utilization of this platform further proves that RealityServer is the platform of choice for satisfying the needs of any customers that require such applications and application services." To date, mental images's patented technologies and products are distributed primarily as the integrated rendering and (in some cases) modeling software components of leading digital content creation and CAD programs such as Alias' Maya(R), Softimage's Softimage(R)|XSI(TM), discreet's 3ds max(R) and 3ds viz, SolidWorks' SolidWorks(R) and Dassault Systemes' CATIA(R). Alias, an SGI company; Dassault Systemes, SA, discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc.; SolidWorks, a wholly owned company of Dassault Systemes, and Softimage, a wholly owned company of Avid Technology also sell a standalone version of mental ray(R), mental images's Academy Award(R)-winning rendering software About RealityServer RealityServer is mental images's new product that enables interactive manipulation and visualization of existing and newly created 3D content. RealityServer based applications permit thousands of users to simultaneously and optionally collaboratively access and interact with original 3D data. Since the original content remains on the server, access to data and user policies are easily secured and managed centrally. This benefit is especially important for industries that will increasingly rely on interactive collaboration but have a strong interest in maintaining control over their core data. Industries that stand to benefit from RealityServer include: remote maintenance and repair; online training and product support; collaborative product design and content creation; medical imaging; simulation and geophysical data analysis; defense and intelligence applications; interactive online gaming/entertainment; and e-Commerce. About mental images mental images(R), founded in 1986, is the recognized international leader in providing rendering software to the entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture, and other industries that require sophisticated images. The company's main product is the high performance photorealistic rendering software mental ray(R) which is capable of running on a wide variety of platforms ranging from networks of workstations to parallel supercomputers, producing images of unsurpassed realism. mental ray was initially released in 1989 and has been used in the production of more than 130 major motion pictures, including such recent blockbusters as "Matrix Reloaded" and "Matrix Revolutions", the "Harry Potter" series, "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", "Hulk," and "Terminator III." Leading visual effects companies and studios, such as Industrial Light and Magic, ESC Entertainment and DreamWorks are among mental images's largest customers. Additionally, in the CAD field mental ray is used by the world's leading automobile and aircraft manufactures to accelerate the design of new products. RealityServer(R) is mental images's next generation product that enables interactive manipulation, visualization and annotation of existing and newly created 3D content within enterprise software solutions. mental images GmbH is a privately held company based in Berlin, Germany, with a wholly owned subsidiary mental images, Inc. in San Francisco, California and an office in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit www.mentalimages.com. About Cycore Cycore is a graphics software company, focused on the Internet, headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden. Cycore was founded in 1996 by a group of engineers, led by Jerry Pettersson. Cycore is the leader in interactive 3D graphics software for e-business. The company specializes in the development of 3D technologies for e-business. Cult3D, the fastest software rendering engine in the world, is a product visualization application used in Web sites, in Micrsoft Office(R) documents and in Adobe Acrobat(R) files. Users can spin, zoom and explore a Cycore Cult3D model to view and understand a product from any perspective -- all with the click of a mouse. Cycore has won several awards for its products, including "Best Internet Software" category for 'PC Week's Best of Comdex Award at Fall Comdex '98. In 1999, Cycore was awarded the coveted European Information Society Technologies (IST) Prize. As a tool for efficient handling of 3D data, Cult3D Designer is today well known all around the world. The recognized software logo is representing many years of high-quality research and development in the 3D field. Cycore AB is a publicly traded company based in Uppsala, Sweden, and has offices in France, Germany, North America and Asia. For further information please visit www.cycore.com 2-3-2004 We have four new objects in the Gallery. - One Peugeot and one Toyota by Pavel - ANPR Computer by Richard Weil - Mini by Taku Kawasaki /Nils 1-9-2004 Cycore has released a new ActiveX viewer today, which supports both the Sun JRE and MS JVM. Here's how it works: * If only the MS JVM is installed that'll be used. * If only the Sun JRE is installed, that'll be used. * If both the MS JVM and Sun JRE are present, the MS JVM will be used. * If no JVM/JRE is installed, the user will be redirected to the Sun Java page where the appropriate JRE can be downloaded. Please report any problems to /Nils 12-18-2003 Hello, We've put up new versions of the Cult3D Exporters for download. We've fixed a couple of bugs, including a potential crash in max 6 when exporting the same file multipe times, or after exporting, opening a new file and chose export for that file. Also fixed problems with naming conventions, textures and mesh handling on export. * C3D Exporter for max R3 version 4.0.3.58 * C3D Exporter for max R4, R5 and VIZ 4 version 4.0.3.58 * C3D Exporter for max R6 version 4.0.4.59 * VIZ Pack 4 for max R4, R5 and VIZ 4 version 4.0.3.58 * VIZ Pack 4 for max R6 version 4.0.4.59 11-28-2003 Cycore releases new Exporters for 3ds max 6. Today Cycore released the Cult3D exporter and VIZ Exporter for 3ds max 6. The new exporters supports the Bake-To-Texture feature in 3ds max. The exporter for 3ds max R3, R4 and R5 has also been updated. 3ds max 5 also has the built in Bake-To-Texture feature. 11-10-2003 This sample, including HTML and CO files shows how to setup a Cult object for scripting, and it uses Triggers and Send Message to Host. It also uses Expressions to control that each button only can be clicked once, until they've been Reset. This is a good example of a standard setup that works both crossplatform and crossbrowser. /Nils 10-13-2003 Hello All, We've uploaded two new models in the Gallery, by Robert O'Neill. One "Lamborghini Gallardo" and one "Citroën Xsara". /Nils 6-5-2003 We've uploaded a sample file in the resources section that shows how to communicate between Cult3D and Director, both ways, made by Jonatan and Jon at Cycore. /Nils 5-19-2003 Wew have a new tutorial in the "intermediate" section, Send Message To Host and Javascrip By Ben Saint-Moulin (BSM) This sample shows how to capture Cult3D properties events or messages with the Send Message To Host Actions. Try it out! /Nils 3-28-2003 Hello All, We've uploaded two sample movies (AVI) that shows two ways of how to bake a texture, and how to apply that to the object for Cult3D export in Max 5. Do it the way you find easiest after watching the movies. /Nils 3-19-2003 Hello All, We've uploaded a new Gallery addition, a lighting fixture by Hakop Goorji. /Nils 3-5-2003 We've uploaded seven new Gallery additions and we've also added two new tutorials in the Tutorials section, everything created by Oscar. The turorials shows how to create spherical scenes and how to simulate video in Cult3D. Thank's Oscar! /Nils 2-25-2003 Hello All, We've uploaded a new Gallery addition, "Muscle Sheep" by R.Takagi. /Nils 2-17-2003 Hello, You can now download the Concept Car Project from the Resources section. It includes the Java classes and source code to create the camera morphing. /Nils 1-27-2003 We updated the Flash2Cult sample, there was a parameter missing in the Flash movie's embed tag that prevented it to work in NS 4.7.x (swLiveConnect="true"). Also if you have trouble with NS 6+ and Moz 1.0+, make sure that you have the Flash version 6.0 r40 or above which installs the "flashplayer.xpt" into the Components folder. Olivier has also updated his Neobook screensaver tutorial. Both files are found in the Resources section with the same name as before. /Nils 1-9-2003 Hello All, We've uploaded a new Gallery addition, Solar System by Benoit Saint-Moulin (BSM). It shows how you can integrate Cult3D and Flash. /Nils 11-18-2002 Hello All, We've uploaded a new Gallery addition, it's a Citroen C3 by Miguel Amorim. /Nils 10-17-2002 Cult3D Viewers for NS6+ and Mozilla 0.9.2+ are available now for Windows and MacOS Classic. Viewers for MacOS X, Linux and other OS will follow as soon as possible. There are currently no Manual downloads available, only Netscapes auto install XPI's. Open any object, click on the "puzzle piece" and the installation will begin. Have fun! /Nils 10-17-2002 The MouseObserver.class Java file, written by "Glider" is a mouse tracker and defines such events like MM Flash movieclips have already built-in. The code is an extension to the Cult3D Designer release 5.3. It will detect the following events for any CultObject presented in the SceneGraph: - RollOver - RollOut - DragOver - DragOut - PressOver - ReleaseOver - ReleaseOutside Thank's "Glider"! /Nils 10-13-2002 We have a new tutorial for Neobook in the Ressources section. This time it's for creating a screensaver with Cult3D objects. 9-30-2002 We have a new addition in the Gallery. - Ecclesiastes by Gamaiel Zavala 9-20-2002 Hello all, After long and hard discussions we've finally agreed on the winners in each category. Please look in the "Latest Events" section on the Wof3D home page. Many congratulations to the winners! /Nils 9-12-2002 Hello All, The contest gallery is up. You'll find the link in the latest events section on the Wof3D home page. /Nils 9-9-2002 Hello All, We're giving everyone that hasn't submitted to the competition yet, until tomorrow morning CET to send in their entries. We're starting on the gallery tomorrow. Cult/Flash integration in an HTML page. We've put up a sample HTML file for download that illustrates what we explained in the PDF. It uses the new JS file that's included in the Designer 5.3 package. You can download a new IE viewer, 5.3.0.214, that has a fix for the getTextureName() issue. /Nils 9-4-2002 Hello all community members, More and more submissions for the modelling contest are dropping in now. We're pretty swamped at work so we won't be able to put up the contest gallery until next week. To all modellers out there that haven't submitted yet, don't forget to send us your presentations this week. Thank's, Nils 8-29-2002 Hello All, I would like to inform you that as of today, Cycore has released the new and improved Cult3D Designer 5.3 and an exporter for Discreet's plasma software. In addition, the Cult3D 3ds max exporter now officially supports 3ds max R5. You can go to www.cult3d.com and download the new software. The new and improved Cult3D Designer 5.3 includes updates to current features, improvements to current functionality and a list of new features have also been added. Cult3D Designer 5.3 contains built in support for the ColorCode 3-D™ technology, where Cult3D objects can now be viewed in high quality 3D Stereo, adding true depth and perspective to Cult3D's visual and interactive realism. By using the ColorCode 3-D™ technology, Cult3D 5.3 has been enhanced with 3D Stereo that can be easily applied to any Cult3D object, without sacrificing visual quality, animations, interactivity or any other Cult3D feature. Resulting objects can be viewed with inexpensive ColorCodeViewerú, paper glasses specially designed with amber and blue filters. In addition to improvements to current functionality, new features such as Collision Detection and Walkthrough Navigation are especially useful in architectural applications of the Cult3D technology. An Extended Arcball function has also been added to allow for customization of arcball behaviour, such as limited rotations. Progressive Antialiasing in Cult3D object creation will increase visual realism without compromising the object's responsiveness to user interaction. Other features include Customizable compression, Multiple selection, Event Map helpers, Metrics, Resize/Center tool, Show/Hide Objects in Designer, project creation Wizard, Workbench Window, extended Java API and improved hardware support for bump mapping. We hope you enjoy our latest releases and look forward to your feedback! thanks, Nils 7-30-2002 We have a new addition in the Gallery. - Swordfish by Sebastian Strzalkowski 7-18-2002 Hello All, We've decided to extend the duration time of the competition. The contest will close at 9.00a.m. September 6th CET (Central European Time). The reason for this is that most Europeans have their summer holidays during July and August, and what would this competition be without the Europeans! During August we'll begin to upload submissions in a separate contest gallery, so that you can see what others are up to. /Nils 7-3-2002 You can download a PDF that shows the general concept of Cult/Flash integration in an HTML page. It also shows how to use a Flash "Loading" movie while the Cult object is loaded and how to move the Layers when the CO file is loaded. The Flash movie can also be replaced by an image or gif animation. /Nils 6-20-2002 Hello All, - You can now download the Flash2Cult sample file, showing how to communicate between Cult and Flash, in the "Resources" section. - We've also got two new Gallery additions from R.Takagi and Kenneth Fejer. Don't forget to enter the Cult3D modelling competition. /Nils 6-7-2002 World of 3D Newsflash Cycore is pleased to announce the 2nd annual World of 3D Modelling Competition, from June 10th to August 1st, 2002. Hosted by Cycore's World of 3D community website, http://www.worldof3d.com and sponsored by Nvidia, this year's competition is open to Cult3D modellers worldwide. Nvidia will contribute one Quadro Pro and one GeForce4 graphic card to the competition and will also publish the winning presentations on their website. This year's competition will feature two categories; Java-based models and non-Java based models. Submissions can be stand-alone .CO files, .CO files integrated into HTML pages or .CO HTML pages that feature Flash integration--presentation format is entirely up to the artist. The ten finalists from each category will be awarded a Cycore Cult3D non-commercial license. The judges will then select an overall winner in each category for the graphics cards (a coin toss will be held to determine which winner receives which card). Experts from Cycore and Nvidia will judge each submission on a standard nVidia GeForce4-equipped PC, based on the following: - Modelling complexity - File size - Interactivity - Cross platform support (For HTML page presentations) The only criteria for submission is that the presentation must never have been published on World of 3D or any other public website before entering the competition. All submissions must be emailed to competition@worldof3d.com in a ZIP archive, including clear English instructions on how to operate the presentation. The contest will close at 9.00a.m. August 2nd CET (Central European Time) and winners will be announced on August 15th. Cycore employees and their family members are prohibited from entering the competition. Cycore and nVidia reserve the right to publish and promote the winning presentations without restriction. The judges decision cannot be appealed. 5-28-2002 Several samples of Java code from Jonatan, which are free to compile and use. Includes an HTML page for viewing the sample CO files and for folder browsing. These are the included Java samples: * Change Background * Change Colors * Change Material * Change Textures * Clock Sample * Crossfading * Custom Progressbar * Digital Clock * Hit Test * Java Particle System * Simple Class * Text To Texture * Zoom /Nils 5-21-2002 We've put up a Japanese version of the Cult3D documentation in CHM format for download in the "Resources" section. /Nils 5-14-2002 Hello all, Dennis De Vetter's tutorial "Multiple texture change" is back online again. Thank's Dennis for bringing it up to date. /Nils 5-7-2002 Hello, We uploaded a new Cult3D VIZ Pack at www.cult3d.com that also works with 3ds max 4. The Installer now has two install options, Autodesk VIZ 4 and 3ds max 4. /Nils 4-24-2002 Another update to the Neobook tutorial, new chapters have been added. /Nils 4-22-2002 We have four new additions in the Gallery. - Cartoon Caveman by Kenneth Fejer. - Notebook, CD-MD Player and MD Walkman by Kouta Yoshino. 4-18-2002 Autodesk VIZ 4 users can take their designs to the Web with Cult3D Exporter for VIZ Cult3D VIZ Exporter 4.0 software, a ground-breaking addition to the Cult3D suite of products allows users to bring VIZ models to the Web with built-in collision detection and walkthrough navigation in a ready-made Cult3D object. No advanced technical knowledge required! The Cult3D VIZ Exporter CD is now shipping with every copy of Autodesk VIZ 4. The software can also be downloaded directly from http://www.cult3d.com. I've added a link to the VIZ download page under the "Resources" page here at Wof3D. /Nils 4-9-2002 Hi everyone! The gallery has been updated with one new user, Ronald Jonkman, make sure to check out his contribution in the gallery. //Nils 4-8-2002 - The "Neobook_Self_Executable.zip" file now contains both the example and the .co file required to run the example. - The "Neobook_Tutorial.zip" includes a new "tutorial.pub" file and PDF. - For all Cult3D Neobook plug-in support questions, please e-mail Olivier Tyrbas directly, , so that he can report these to the Neobook team. /Nils 3-27-2002 Some news: - We've brought the old "activate/deactivate" tutorial "back to life". - You can download the Neobook Cult3D Plug-in from Wof3D. This will however change to a link to their page when they have the Plug-in online. - The Neobook tutorial has been updated. The ZIP file now contains all the source files and you can also download the resulting exe file separatley from the same page. - I've posted the Java code that was used in the Concept Car in a new topic, 'Concept Car Java "Car Color.java and Q.java"', in the "Java for Cult3D" Forum . We hope that it'll be useful for you. /Nils 3-25-2002 We've put up three new example files for download, World Loading, Primitive Zoombox and Interactions. There are no written tutorials for these examples but they're more or less self explanatory (If not I guess we'll see that in the forum). /Nils 3-22-2002 Olivier Tyrbas has contributet with a tutorial on how to embed CO files into Neobook 4 presentations. It requires that you have the Cult3D ActiveX component installed. NeoBook is a software program that allows you to produce royalty-free executable files Jonatan has also updated his application I2C3D. /Nils 2-28-2002 Hello everyone, The detection script is actually new, we've replaced the "old new" with a "real new" yesterday (Feb-27-2002). /Nils 2-22-2002 Hello Community Members! As you may have noticed, the Cycore team hasn't been very active in World of 3D lately. The reason for this is that we have been extremely busy with the development of the Cult3D product line-to continue offering you, our developers, the top-notch products you have come to expect from Cycore. We are now entirely focused on improving everything from software to manuals and, of course, tutorials for future Cult3D Designer Packs. We are continually impressed with the development that comes from the community and hope that you will put some of your discoveries and expertise into a Tutorial that we can post on Wof3D. We will be relying on you, the community, to share your tips and tricks with fellow Cult3D users. If you have a tutorial to contribute, please send all the necessary files in a ZIP archive and e-mail it to me, nils@cycore.com, I'll make it available for download under the Tutorials section. The preferred format is PDF. Cycore's contribution to WO3D will center on better presence in the forums, and a renewed commitment to adding news and gallery items more regularly. And don't forget that the Wof3D community is also meant to be partly "user driven", which means that it's important that YOU are active too. A community with many active users attracts new users, which will lead to a site jam-packed with the kind of resources and timely information everyone can benefit from. Together, we can make World of 3D the leading source for 'everything Cult3D'. Without your active participation, there would be no community. /Nils 2-19-2002 Hi everyone! The gallery has been updated with one new user, Kazuhisa Shimono, make sure to check out his contribution in the gallery. //Nils 1-4-2002 Happy new year 2002 everyone! The gallery has been updated with two new users, Tuvia Heller and Gamaiel Zavala, make sure to check out their contributions in the gallery. The links section on the resources pages has also been updated. //Thomas 12-21-2001 Merry christmas everyone from us behind wo3d. The updates has not been as frequent as I'd to liked the last couple of months. This is due to a number of reasons, one is that I have gone back to do modeling again, and its been taking 120% of my time, hopefully this will change in the beginning of the next year. I would like to thank everyone for this year, it's been a great year for us and wo3d, with a new design, which has IMHO worked out very well. There are several updates that are on my 'todo' list, so those of you who waits for something, please have patience, I have not forgotten you! Last but not least, I have (as usual) recieved a holiday greeting from Florin Miu. Check it out in the gallery. Merry christmas everyone and see you next year! //Thomas 11-27-2001 Objects in the gallery has been added from several users. /Thomas 11-6-2001 Kenneth Fejer has created a tutorial on how cell shading can be created. See examples of his work here and the tutorial can be found here Great work Kenneth //Thomas 10-31-2001 Hello all Finally an update of some stuff here. A new tutorial by Surgeon is available in the tutorial section. Robert Dudka has contributed with 2 objects and Gabor Gyulai has also sent me a very cool psychadelic object. See them in the gallery. //Thomas 10-12-2001 Here is a beta version of a script that can detect if a web page visitor has the Cult3D plugin installed on her/his machine. Download it from the Ressource section of this site. 9-10-2001 Gabor Gyulai known as Glider in the forum has written a tutorial about how to create a planetary system with orbiting of the planets. Includes extensive description on how the java was created. You'll find it here //Thomas 9-7-2001 Florin Miu has updated his Cult3D Extension with a enhancment/bugfix for JAS. Read more and download it here.Make sure you check this out, invaluable for non-java programmers who stull needs to access more advanced features. //Thomas 9-5-2001 The I2C3D application by Jonix is updated. The new version is 2.0.3 and can now handle version 5.2 and the upcoming 5.3 of Cult3D. Download it here. //Thomas 8-24-2001 The gallery is updated with objects from: Babyspace, Ramnik Chandy and Santiago Batiz-Benet, whom are new to the gallery but not to the wo3d forum. Good job with the objects guys. //Thomas 8-16-2001 Greetings everyone from SIGGRAPH and an extremely hot Los Angeles. Plenty of people have stopped by the booth and we are expecting a lot more this last day. I hope everyone who is in the area will come to the booth and say hi. Cult3D was represented twice last night in the Web3D-roundup. Patrick Belford was and Ted Iannuzzi was giving the demo for Cycore and our friends at Cybelius were also showing some cool Cult3D projects they've done. More later. //Thomas 8-16-2001 An extension for publishing Cult3D in GoLive is available for download here //Thomas 8-6-2001 Digikoku, a channel partner from Japan, has now started "Digikoku Project 1" which is a japanese Cult3D community. Check it out at www.digikoku.com. It is managed by Mark Aldred, who is also moderating the japanese forum, aswell has created some really nice objects in the gallery. //Thomas 7-19-2001 Three tutorials by Patrick Belford added. The tutorials are about: Building a better arcball - Describing how to use the arcball function to the max. Panoramas - Create a panorama in Cult3D Animated transparency - Demonstrates how to implement pre-defined Java code to animate the transparency of objects in your Cult3D scene. 7-18-2001 The gallery is updated with a panorama photo in Cult3D by Florin Miu. He has also created a tutorial showing how to create a panorama using some smart usage of Cult3D. The panorama can be found in the gallery and the tutorial in the learn section. Another addition to the gallery is a game style fighter by Kenneth Fejer, it can also be found in the gallery. //Thomas 7-18-2001 Cycore, SEB Groupe, 3d-test and GrosBill Micro hold the first European Web 3D modeling competition. Read more about it here: In english or french 7-4-2001 The gallery is updated once again. Kazuya Goto and Mark Aldred has created another object, this time with a cartoon shader (how the hell do they do everything??). Saverio Bugli has contributed with a windmill object. /Thomas 6-29-2001 The gallery is updated. Kazuya Goto and Florin Miu has extended their lists of objects. Patrick Belford and Johnny Leung has also contributed with cool objects. Check them out in the gallery. //Thomas 6-20-2001 Two new Netscape 4.x plugins are now available for download on the site. This beta version (v5.2b1) mostly corrects some installation problems. (Note that it is not yet compatible with Netscape 6 / Mozilla) The RedHat .rpm package is not affected by this release //Philippe 6-20-2001 The Designer extension, written by Florin Miu, is now updated. It had a bug in the installation program which is now fixed. With the extension you can change texture and colors of objects without any java knowledge, I strongly recommend everyone to try it out. //Thomas 6-11-2001 I have added a new object made by Florin Miu in the gallery. Check it out >> //Fredde 5-18-2001 Finally the promised update of design and content of wo3d has been made.I know, I know, it took way too long time. As you probably can see a lot of things has a new look to it, but I am sure regular users will find their way around pretty quick. We have many plans for the site down the road and many interesting things are coming up, however we would really like to hear your opinion what YOU want to see here, we are thinking more contests, an open chatroom session once a week etc, what do you think? We would also like to encourage you to submit your work, if you've made a really cool Cult3D object that you want to show, maybe you have some cool tricks you would like to contribute, write a tutorial, or a document on how you did it. Good and informative tutorials/documents will be rewarded. As always, let us know what you think of the site, new design, content on the site etc. //wo3d team