A handy Window for media an other content in babelx3d Worlds

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2011, October 13 - 20:40
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A handy Window for media an other content in babelx3d Worlds

Hi all,

This came up from the need to tell digital stories in 3D worlds. A few issues have to be addressed in babelx3d interface and easy video is of course one of them.
That is why babelx3D/ABNet has a new feature to solve (I hope) video problems/needs and a few other storytelling needs Very Happy

Video inside 3D is often problematic (can even crash the app) so there is a new HTML window available as an alternative to exibit these types of 2D media more easily and with less problems in a handy 2D window.


Scene from the world Universe of Books

See a demo of this window's use with several types of files:
click to open demo

How is it done?
the simplest way possible: using a link

  1. Choose a YouTube video and grab the video direct link from inside the <embed> code provided by YouTube
     example: http://www.youtube.com/embed/PkXB3ts9scQ
    (please do not make a mistake: you need the video direct link and not the link of the youtube page for that video. The page link will not work)
  2. create a link for that file in the 3D scene and set target=videoWindow01
    This means that the file will open in frame "videoWindow01" which is the actual name of the tiny window.
     
  3. That is it!
    Yet, to see this window working you need to launch your world in a multiuser mode (if you dont know how, look here)

Although intended primarily for YouTube alike media files, encapsulated with their own player, we can use any media files in this window if embedded in a html page, as seen in the demo. Image and text files, obviously too. I could not resist to test it with other file types besides video Rolling Eyes

Please note that beyond each player specific controls, the window has a line below with tiny additional resize window and close icons.

This is not a proprietary solution only usable in babelx3d/abnet worlds. In case the vrml scene is viewed in standalone, the video will open in a new standard browser window. For more details please look inside the vrml code or at this vivaty .fxw source demo file:

http://www.odisseia.univ-ab.pt/ABNet2/demos/linktests/videolinktests.zip

Hope you enjoy playing with this handy window.

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Edited by: babelx3d on 2017/04/01 - 18:42
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