Blender Releases Linux 3D Web Plugin

Qbertino writes: "Not a Number, producer of Blender, the Linux community's favorite professional 3D Package (get it for free) has released the beta of their 3D Web Plugin for Netscape 6.1 / Mozilla on Linux/Unix. It offers full integration of Blender's realtime 3D enviroment based applications into the browser's enviroment. Including OpenGL acceleration and all. Check out the Demos. Feedback on the beta-release is welcome and kindly requested on the Blender Community Discussion Board."

Comments

Are there any sites using this?

[tshak]

This sounds great, but are there any "real world" sites using or planning on using this plugin? Or is it just another VRML experiment?

Re:Cross-platform

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous Cowards filtered. If their words aren't worth so much as a nom de plume why should I value them any more?

Quite a few of the most interesting slashdot posts are made as Anonymous Cowards. Often, this is done due to potential legal/illegal/problematic nature of the posts. Yes, you can use an alias - but if you want to be really, really, secure you need to use an anynomous web proxy. And you cant login from them.

Oh sh*t. Jus realised you aint gonna be reading this anyhow.........

J. Random AC

Re:I have to agree

[nhavar]

That's wild, i've never used any of those products and I mastered Blender enough to build - this - after about three days of running through the tuts and messing around with it.

Draconian licensing

[Jamie Lokier]

Absolutely no way I'm installing any software on my computers that comes with the conditions below:

2.2. Server Use. With respect to the Blender Stand Alone Player and Blender 3D Plug-in only, and subject to the terms of this Agreement, you may install one copy of such Software on a computer file server within your internal network for the sole and exclusive purpose of using such Software (from an unlimited number of client computers on your internal network) via (a) the Network File System (NFS) or (b) Windows Terminal Services. Unless otherwise expressly permitted hereunder, no other server or network use of the Software is permitted, including but not limited to using the Software (i) either directly or through commands, data or instructions from or to another computer or (ii) for internal network, internet or web hosting services.

2.3 No Modification. You may not alter or modify the Software or create a new installer for the Software. The Software is licensed and distributed by NaN for viewing, distributing and sharing .blend files. You are not authorized to integrate or use the Software with any other software.

3. Intellectual Property Rights. The Software and any copies that you are authorized by NaN to make are the intellectual property of and are owned by NaN and its suppliers. The structure, organization and code of the Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of NaN and its suppliers. The Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by Dutch Law, international treaty provisions and applicable laws in the country in which it is being used. You may not copy the Software, except as set forth in Section 2 ("Software License"). Any copies that you are permitted to make pursuant to this Agreement must contain the same copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the Software. Unless specifically and expressly permitted by NaN, you agree not to modify, adapt or translate the Software. You also agree not to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Software and all rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by NaN.