axs@gentoo.org
Ian Stakenvicius
FreeWRL is a VRML97 (VRML-2.0) and X3D interactive viewer, providing both a traditional Xorg application
and a nsbrowser plugin for use with many available web browsers. The package depends heavily on OpenGL
support for rendering. When developing your 3D world or model, you can program with GLSL Shaders using the
X3D Shaders Component, put your model exactly where you want them with the Geospatial Component, or just
throw triangles to the screen as Extrusions, IndexedFaceSets, TriangleSets, Circle2D, Disk2D, Spheres, Boxes,
Cubes; the list goes on and on. With royalty free open standards, your models will continue to render, year after year.
=media-gfx/freewrl-1.22* uses traditional OpenGL calls, while >=media-gfx/freewrl-2 uses
"shaders" and requires hardware capable of at least OpenGL-2.0 or OpenGL-ES.
freewrl