3D Modelling Tools:
Spazz3D (recommended, windows). Also available are Inspire3D (Windows and Macintosh) and Cosmo Worlds (SGI IRIX). Any 3D tool that can export ISO VRML 97 data (or can export data that can easily be converted into VRML97) can be used.

Optimisation Tools:
Chisel (online applet version WebChisel).

Texture Mapping and Image Manipulation Tools:
Adobe Photoshop (Windows and Macintosh).

VRML Code Editors:
VRML Pad (recommended, Windows) or XEmacs (Windows) or Emacs/BBEdit/Alpha with VRML mode (Macintosh). Any text editor can be used but an editor with a VRML mode is an advantage.

Java Development Environment:
NetBeans 3.2 with Java JDK 1.3.1 recommended, however any environment, including the basic JDK command-line tools is OK.

Run-time VRML environment:

Recommended: Internet Explorer and ParallelGraphics Cortona (Mac OS and Windows)
Alternatives: Internet Explorer or Netscape and Blaxxun Contact (Windows), Netscape and Cosmo Player plugin-in (Mac OS, Windows, or IRIX).

Intervista WorldView (Mac OS and Windows), which has been distributed with some versions of Internet Explorer, is not recommended.

OpenVRML/Lookat can be used under Linux, but does not have complete VRML support so is only recommended for rapidly viewing basic geometry. The same goes for MacLookat, which is a Lookat variant for the Mac OS. Java/Java3D on Linux/Solaris/Windows can also be used as a basic VRML97 viewer for those platforms.

VRML Multi-User Environment support:
VNet and Deep Matrix.

Other run-time environments:
Java 1.1.x with Shout3D/Blaxxun3D can also be used to view basic VRML models.

Additional tools:
Check out some of the VRML/Web3D Web sites for lists of tools and use whatever works for you. There are lots of potentially useful utility programs and code generators/converters available for all platforms.



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