VRweb

A generic X-motif VRML viewer, VRweb, has been installed in the CSB core. This viewer can be used stand alone to view VRML files (*.wrl) or it can be called automatically by Netscape when you encounter a VRML file on the WWW.

• You must give the following command (once) for your VRweb session to know where the help files are. This enables the HELP button in VRweb.
  
  In your home directory type:

ln -s /sgi/local/vrweb/ .vrweb

The online HELP is also available here.

• To enable Netscape to know about VRweb add the following line to the .mailcap file in your home directory. Then in Netscape Options | General Preferences | Helpers add the full path to this file as the Personal Mailcap file (i.e., /sgi/people/you/.mailcap)

x-world/x-vrml; vrweb-mesa -URL '%u' -remote %s

• To test that your Netscape session will launch VRweb open the following file:

file:/sgi/local/vrweb/examples/cubes.wrl

After a few seconds a separate window should open showing the VR picture.

• You can view VRML files by launching VRweb separately. Just type the following command:

vrweb-mesa

Example VRML files can be found in /sgi/local/vrweb/examples. These may be opened from the VRweb Open | File window.

Last Modified: Thursday, 04-Apr-1996 11:07:33 EST