Simple, elegant, easy to use. Tried it with IE 11 and Opera 36.0 under Win 8.1 32 bit. Loads quickly, Opera slightly faster and smoother. Very, very nice.
..almost all browsers except Firefox (until now) don't allow to read local files by default, for security reasons!!!
Happy to hear I am not the only one mystified by this...
..find some "must have" suggestions or some bugs that will deserve some last modifications.
Not really, at least not after a quick test. I guess there may be a potential for additional features, but point is that the basic platform seems to work with no issues "out of the box".
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Tried it with IE 11 and Opera 36.0 under Win 8.1 32 bit...
Yes, and I forgot, tried Android (4.4.4 KitKat) too with Opera 34 and Chrome 47. Works beautifully (even if I have yet to figure out whether I can use all the controls). ok
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Thanks for your nice feedback
Releasing a first version helped me to make room for new ideas, and in the version 0.9.1 released tonight, I found a way to make the generated program consume less memory and even run faster with some browsers. For people interested by technical details, using Javascript workers to parse OBJ files wasn't such a good idea because of the amount of data to manage and transfer back and forth, and actually, calling setTimeout to slice this parsing was enough to give some air to manage interactions with the user interface, without slowing down the program. Under iOS, I discovered also that textured grounds weren't rendered correctly and I reduced the surface of the exported ground to 1km² which should be enough.
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Tried some more - and I see that complicated models can be a challenge. But it works very well for illustrations, even on small devices, as long as the model is not too big.
This is probably a silly question (showing a total lack of interest in the Android interface), but is there a way of zooming the aerial view and moving the virtual visitor without mouse/keyboard - i.e. on small handhelds?
There's nothing to change the elevation of the visitor, but adding buttons for that should be quite easy. Just need some documentation to explain how to do it!
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Pinch!
Yes, well, I did try pinching, but cannot get it to work with either Opera or Chrome - pinching inside the canvas just rotates (and otherwise zooms the entire page). Under Win 8.1 pinching seems to zoom the page, regardless how much I try to focus inside the canvas. Maybe just me or my setup. Will try further. Either way, I suspect it is possible that I am not the only one having trouble (I hope), so buttons may be a good idea for a future release, just in case :-)
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I'm currently looking into home automation, what hardware systems there are and what GUIs they offer. If there was a possibility to add triggers to lamps, furniture etc in SH3D that can call external scripts in the HTML export and also get notified on changes (e.g. light switches) you'd have a kick-ass home automation GUI that no other can beat :)
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Hi,
I just released the version 1.0 of the Export to HTML5 plug-in, with a little add-on to the Free 3D models page as a surprise. Along with the Java source code included in the plug-in file, I published the source Javascript files in the new SweetHome3DJS project and generated the JSDoc of the API if you're interested. swave, you may access to the information of a home through this API, and even... modify a loaded home. Just retrieve the HomePreviewComponent instance returned by viewHome and have fun! For your information, the API of the Javascript classes is some kind of subset of the Java API of Sweet Home 3D, but using a script language here will help to program small additional features much faster. For the 3D view itself, the main missing feature might be an API to manage picking, but that should come soon.
Okh, I added in this release the navigationPanel parameter that lets you display the navigation arrows or completely customize them if needed. I also added the viewerControlsAdditionalHTML parameter to customize the zone below the 3D view, for example to add Forward and Backward buttons displayed in the gallery examples only under Android, where pinch isn't supported in Javascript yet!
Note that the Javascript "minified" core-min.js, geom-min.js, triangulator-min.js, viewhome-min.js and viewmodel-min.js files were renamed with a dot instead of an hyphen and navigationPanel.png was added. So be sure to clean your lib folder if you deploy this new version, and update the <script> tags that reference these files if needed. See you soon for more information about this release
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Sorry, during my last tests of the viewer, it looks like I forgot IE 11 where it fails (under Windows, I mainly use Edge). Therefore, I had to release the new version 1.0.1 to fix this issue. Only Javascript files were modified. Thanks okh for reporting the issue.
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