Ventuz. 100% Managed (.NET) DirectX App

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hey, ask *me* about 3d here
this was all I was doing last semester (lightwave and java3d)
and there are two things for sure:
its not as easy as *drag and drop* and it wont run on my pc!
you need some 3d-knowledge to create a simple scene, so all ventuz could offer are probably 5-10 pre-created worlds with 5-10 pre-created animations.
(but for a presentation it would be like *COOL*)
sun is creating a [url="http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/"]3d-desktop[/url:5n6aszl0x9] for a while but its not as easy as it sounds.

you think there are money in 3d, Tim?
(hmm.. I'm currently searching for some idea like this... )

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Chris
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[Tim Scarfe]

<blockquote id="quote"><span class="smalltext" id="quote">quote:<hr id="quote">you think there are money in 3d, Tim?<hr id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></span id="quote">

Hi Chris,

I think so. If you use it in the right way.

3d environments are very compelling and as I said they are an intuative way to show how information/data relates together. I think you would need to have a pretty solid product and data model before you started thinking about 3d though (rather than doing it the other way around).

The great thing about .NET and DirectX is that it makes it all very accessible and you can talk to your .NET application natively. You can even take advantage of web services, remoting et all.

Looking through all the DirectX9 SDK examples I was pretty suprised how simple it is.

I wonder if it's possible to host a managed DirectX application in the context of Internet Explorer. Now that would be pretty exciting! I can already visualise some Intranet application magic. Of course there is the whole Java Applet/OpenGL route too but I don't have Java installed

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Tim Scarfe <tim@developer-x.com>
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