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Welcome to the XVR Wiki! Hello everybody and welcome to the brand new XVR wiki. This wiki will host any sort of documentation efforts on XVR, as well as troubleshooting, programming techniques, how-tos and real-life experience. Stay tuned!

XVR Tools Latest updates: (July 20, 2012) AAM exporters for 3dsMax up to 2013, 32-bit and 64-bit (2010-11-12-13) in a single zip archive (November 16, 2011) XVR Studio Developer 2.0.9.b available on SourceForge (August 3, 2011) AAM exporter for 3dsMax 2010/2011 x64 version and 32-bit version (June 30, 2011) Updated XVR doc chm file (June 28, 2011) XVR Full Screen Browser updated with command line parsing (June 28, 2011) Informal specification of the AAM file format with samples (May 13, 2011) First XVRStudio 2.0 beta on SourceForge (May 5, 2011) XVRStudio 1.4.7 (May 5, 2011) Beta support to COLLADA DAE files import (May 5, 2011) XVR AAM Shader Editor (November 9, 2010) Updated XVR doc chm file (June 16, 2010) AAM exporter for 3dsMax 2010/2011 x64 version (November 2, 2009) AAM exporter for 3dsMax 2010/2011 (June 29, 2009) XVRStudio 1.4.6 (Dec 15, 2008) added version 0.07a of the AAM exporter for Blender (August 06, 2008) added a new version of the 3dsMax exporter plugins (Gen 02, 2008) added a new version of the Maya exporter See also the complete download list. XVR Documentation This page is part of a current effort to "wikify" the non-automatically generated part of XVR documentation. It features also lots of snippets explaining some of the most important features of XVR classes and functions. An html version of the XVR Help can be found at http://www.vrmedia.it/Docs/. (updated June 30, 2011) For obvious reasons this is updated more frequently than the documentation distributed together with XVR Studio. Check it out when you can't find there what you are looking for. And if you still can't find what you need please let us know in the forums. XVR Tutorials Simple samples on how to use Shared Memory, VRPN and Collada DAE geometry files in XVR Davide Vercelli uploaded his tutorial on how to use shaders in XVR Rosario Leonardi posted a collection of tips to improve the graphic performance of XVR applications Marcello Carrozzino posted a tutorial about pre-computed lighting using XVR and 3DSMax. A tutorial about using Fragment Shaders in combination with Frame Buffer Objects for numerical simulation on the GPU. As a demo, it features Conway's famous Game of Life. Contributed by Torsten Fröhlich of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona. Marcello Carrozzino posted a tutorial about using 3D Audio in XVR. Here is a tutorial showing how to use procedural generated geometry in XVR. By Marcello Carrozzino. Learn how to use shaders in XVR. Davide Vercelli has posted a new tutorial about shadow mapping in XVR Walter Aprile (PERCRO) has a tutorial on simulating a panoramic camera using XVR and on how to use a joystick in XVR. Marcello Carrozzino contributed with an interesting collection of simple tutorials. In particular, have a look at this tutorial exploiting the XVR functionalities to exchange data from and to the HTML page by using the "Datain/Dataout" commmands. Slides about XVR Some slides about XVR coming from the workshops held in Pisa & Montreal. Expanding XVR XVR built-in features can be expanded using external dlls. Get some useful material.

XVR news July 20, 2012 Released AAM exporters for 3dsMax all versions. November 16, 2011 XVRStudio 2.0.9 released on SourceForge. September 27, 2011 engine 0153 build 6965 released September 11, 2011 XVRStudio 2.0.8 released on SourceForge. September 11, 2011 engine 0153 build 6964 released September 11, 2011 Added samples in the tutorials sections to explain how to use VRPN, Shared Memory and COLLADA geometry files in XVR June 30, 2011 engine 0153 build 6962 released June 15, 2011 engine 0153 build 6961 released May 13, 2011 XVRStudio 2.0 beta released on SourceForge. This brand new edition of the XVR Development Environment is based on the Eclipse IDE and integrates a debugger. Note: debug is supported starting from Engine 0153. November 2, 2010: engine 0152 released. April 16, 2010: Some notes to help debugging an XVR DLL inside IE 8. November 11, 2009: VICON toolkit for XVR July 29, 2009: Dictionary type for XVR June 29, 2009: the final release of ScriptEditor 1.4.6 is available for download. It fixes bugs and adds some features; learn more from our release notes, and then download it! The download package features also updated headers, tools and help files. June 12, 2009: engine 0150 build 6930 released. June 12, 2009: the tutorial on how to use shaders in XVR, presented at the 4th XVR workshop, is now available for download Feb. 5, 2009: engine 0150 released. Dec. 15, 2008: version 0.07a of the AAM exporter for Blender has been released Aug. 6, 2008: the final release of ScriptEditor 1.4.5 is available for download. It fixes minor bugs and adds some features; learn more from our release notes, and then download it! The download package features also updated headers, tools and help files. August 6, 2008: new version for the 3dsMax exporter plugin, adding support for 3ds max 2009 Jun 25 2008 engine 0149 released. May 25, 2008 added tips to improve the graphic performance of XVR applications Jan 8, 2008: our wiki is up again after a database failure Oct. 11, 2007: some workarounds for XVR users having problem with Windows Vista/IE7. Jun. 21, 2007: a new tutorial about pre-computed lighting describes how to bake lightmaps in 3ds Max and use them inside XVR objects. May. 9, 2007: added a new S3D exporter for Blender that allows to preview XVR's procedural objects in Blender and export them as S3D code Feb. 22, 2007: A new tutorial describes the usage of Frame Buffer Objects in combination with Hardware Shaders and presents Conway's Game of Life running completely in your graphics card. Important Notices about this Wiki Please note: editing is disabled for anonymous users. Please contact wiki@vrmedia.it in order to obtain an account. This installation is still experimental, so please don't upload any material without backing it up before (this is good practice anyway!)

About this wiki

Special XVR MediaWiki Extensions

Emanuele Ruffaldi wrote a couple of custom extensions to the MediaWiki software, in order to embed XVR code and applets directly into this wiki.

MediaWiki resources

If you are new to wiki software in general or to MediaWiki in particular, please consult the Editing Guide for general information on how to use it, and Wikitext Help for more detailed instructions on MediaWiki's syntax.