Hi Hilmar,
Director/Shockwave 3D definately has it's faults (eg., new Yahoo! toolbar
download), and I've looked into other real-time Web 3D technologies myself.
But so far Shockwave 3D has proven to be the best in terms of market
potential.
There are other technologies out there you could go with like WildTangent,
Virtools, X3D, Atmosphere, etc... But which other technology could give you
the browser penetration of Shockwave and a powerfull brand like Macromedia?
And to address your issues specifically. Macromedia is currently looking
into providing "Shockwave Pro", a service that will allow us developers to
provide the Shockwave plug-in to our customers free of the Shockwave.com
re-direct, registration process, and Yahoo! toolbar download. I've found
that IE crashes are usually more due to bad coding/poorly written Xtras than
anything having to do with Director/Shockwave itself. And Intel is under
contract with Macromedia to develop two versions of the 3D Xtra, but who
knows when the second one is coming. But I've found the current version of
the 3D Xtra provides most of the functionality I need (except multi-layer
textures and bump mapping support would be nice).
Steve
"Hilmar Hermens" <h.hermenseprosoft.de> wrote in message
news:cabn4o$mm9$03$1news.t-online.com...further> Hi all.
>
> We want to sell a shockwave-based web-product (including
> shockwave3d-content) to a very big and severe customer (with real big
> traffic).
>
> Then I read the news topics about installation problems,
> yahoo-installation-pop-up, IE crashes after reloading 3d-content, noone!!!> development of the 3d-engine, and so on ...
>
> Is shockwave-3d dead before we get the contract?...
>
> So the decision to use director and shockwave seems not to be a goodfor>
> I would like to read your opinion about that, because we have to decide> the right tool soon.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Hilmar.
>
>
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