vrweb1

Usage

Overview

VRweb is a VRML 1 browser that you can use to browse a Virtual Reality World (wrl).

Options

-h, -help

gives a short description of possible command line arguments.

-verbose

turns on verbose output (incl. IPC communication); use it to locate VRweb crashes (if they should ever happen...) and include the output in the bug report

-lang[uage] lang

sets the language of the user interface to one of [english|german|french|italian|spanish|korean|japanese|styrian]. There are currently no plans for supporting other languages. Please, send bug reports or information requests in English or German only.

-URL url

base URL for relative references (typically set via -URL %u in ~/.mailcap).

-remote file

open file in a running VRweb instance or create a new VRweb window if none found. It is not possible to redirect stdinput to a remote instance. However the optional file argument after all options allows this using a -.

-getRemoteID

determines the X11 window ID of a running VRweb instance or 0x0 if none found. Exits afterwards.

-remoteViewpoint

make a running VRweb instance jump to a named viewpoint, defined with argument -URL _baseurl_#camera, and exit.

-draw[mode]

select the initial drawing mode to be one of [wireframe|hiddenline|flat|smooth|texturing]

-intdraw[mode]

selects the interactive drawing mode to be one of the list above or same to use the same mode during navigation too.

-speed

sets an (overall) speed factor for navigation

-alphaplanes

inquire visual with alpha-bitplanes. Their use in VRweb is limited to the `quality polygon antialiasing' option (OpenGL version). They are not needed for transparency.

-mesabackbuf

selects the backbuffer for Mesa to be one of [pixmap|image|auto]. Pixmap transfers each drawing command immediately to the XServer. Image causes all drawings to be made into an XImage, which is transfered to the XServer when complete; shared memory usage (only available when displayed locally) makes this transfer fast. The default setting auto uses image for shaded views and pixmap for wireframes.

-singlebuf

turns off double buffering for 3D renderings. Usually slower than double buffering. OpenGL however may provide a X-visual with greater depth.

-indirect

render OpenGL through X-server (slower).

-mosaic

use mosaic for anchor requests and on-line help or netscape(1).

-local

force WWWInline and Texture2 to be searched as local files.