Notes About Using Live3D

Quickly Animating To Viewpoints (10.24.96)

• Click on the world (the VR window or picture) to select it.
• Hit the "CONTROL-RIGHTARROW" keystrokes.

This keystroke will run through the viewpoints as entered by the author of the world. You may, as always, fly through the world any way you like via the following Live3D navigation hints:

Netscape Notes for Live3D Navigation

Setting Up ANIMATE TO VIEWPOINTS (10.20.96)

To get the full experience from the preset viewpoints, you need to make sure that your Live3D plugin has the ANIMATE TO VIEWPOINTS set to ON. To make sure, complete the following:

• In a Live3D x-world scene, Hold down the CTRL and OPTION (OPT) keys together, and click-and-hold on the scene. You should get the Navigational Pop-up Menu.
• Make sure the following menu option has a check-mark next to it.

Using the WRZ Extension (10.20.96)

We have now moved to using the .wrz extension to describe a .wrl file that has been GZIP'ed, for which Live3D has a built-in decompressor.

If you are using a Macintosh, you will need to manually set this extension in the Options -> General Preferences -> Helpers. It should look like this:

How To Keep From Crashing Live3D, Netscape 3.0, and Your Computer (10.1.96)

There seems to be a fatal bug in Live3D which occurs if you reload a page with a VRML (.wrl) file in it (or consisting of it.) Reload the page 5-10 times, and you will get a system crash (on a Mac), and/or Netscape crashing (on a PC).

SOLUTION: Say you are trying to work with foo.wrl. Open up foo.wrl with Netscape/Live3D Plugin. Then open a NEW WINDOW in Netscape using File -> New Web Browser. In this new window, open foo.wrl or any .wrl file.

Basically, we will keep one window open with a .wrl, keeping the Live3D plugin loaded. Then when we reload foo.wrl in a second window, the Live3D plugin will not keep unloading/loading, which seems to cause the crashing.

How To Use GZIP with Netscape/Live3D (10.1.96)

The picture on the homepage http://www.calculus.net/vrml is normally 88k, but when GZIP'ed (compressed) first, it is only 9k.

Live3D can unGZIP on the fly, but here is how you do it (this is for creators, not necessarily just for readers): With foo.wrl

• Change the file name to: foo-gz.wrl.
• Compress foo-gz.wrl with a GZIP utility (like MacGZIP); this produces foo-gz.wrl.gz (and REPLACES/DELETES foo-gz.wrl, that is why we have Step #1.)
• Take off the .gz extension, leaving foo-gz.wrl again.
• Now Live3D will be able to load it (because it needs .wrl extension), and decompress it on the fly.

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