On the subject of large VRML files, is there a list which shows which of the popular VRML viewers support gzipped VRML files? If most of them do, then there's no danger in using the gzipped files. But if Cosmoplayer is the only one that supports gzipped files, we'll have to make do with the full (large) files in order to allow everyone to see the files.
It's part of the VRML2 specification, so any VRML2 viewer must be able to read gzipped worlds. For other purposes I've been trying out a range of viewers and they all worked fine with gzipped files. They were: Microsoft's version of WorldView WorldView Blaxuun Contact Cosmo Cordona Because VRML2 is plain text, the compression in going to gzipped is huge, so it should be a matter of habit for anything other than the smallest of worlds. A VRML2 checker/optimizer such as Chisel is a handy device for making sure you've got the minimum junk within the file, then for gzipping it to make sure the file is the smallest possible. Steve Professor Steven Abbott steven@abbott.demon.co.uk http://www.autotype.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)