Web Developer.com? Guide to Creating 3D Worlds

Everything you need to create 3D worlds for your web site You'd love to beef up your web site with virtual reality, but even the simplest virtual world can be difficult to create and successfully execute on the Internet. Right? Not necessarily. This book/CD package makes it easier than ever for you to enhance your web site with state-of-the-art 3D virtual reality. Trailblazers O'Neill and Muir supply you with the know-how and tools you need to create stunningly realistic 3D spaces, stores, galleries, malls . . . entire worlds. In skill-building sequence, they describe an innovative alternative to VRML that lets you recreate an existing space, design a new one from scratch, or build a complete virtual world of your own imagining and then integrate it into your site. And most importantly, anyone using a standard web browser will be able to navigate your world without having to download and install special plug-ins or other complicated software! Guide to Creating 3D Worlds: Walks you through designing, creating, and publishing a virtual world Covers all practical aspects of space modeling, image assembling, lighting, perspective, graphics design, and more Arms you with a powerful 3D web engine and sophisticated CAD programs Provides expert guidance on creating HTML links, basic scripting, and using the RAGE virtual worlds engine On the CD-ROM you'll find: RAVE, a shareware 3D web engine created by the authors Hundreds of images that you can use to build a 3D virtual world HTML coding and templates for 3D worlds A hotlink to the authors' web site Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Join the authors' virtual community! visit: www.ancientsites.com