
Hi, I am having trouble exporting a .x3d file in a format which programs that convert .x3d data to VRML data can read. The error message for one of them is: Xj3D Version: 1_0 Device found: Mouse-0 Device found: Keyboard-0 Error: Unexpected Exception: Unknown field name: chimera:hither for node: org.web3d.vrml.renderer.ogl.nodes.navigation.OGLViewpoint@1080876 Error: Failed to load file -- The ultimate goal is to have a VRML file that includes both the EM surface map and the pdb subunit structure together in a file that can be read by one of the companies that laser etches the structure into a glass cube. Some companies can read the pdb, some the VRML, but none can read both. Chimera says the .x3d can be converted into .vrml if there are no clipping planes or perspective, which there are not. But I still get this error. Any suggestions, pls? thanks, Esther --- Esther Bullitt, Ph.D. Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Room W302 Boston University School of Medicine 715 Albany Street (mail only; couriers use 700 Albany Street) Boston, MA 02118-2526 Email: bullitt@bu.edu Telephone: 617-638-5037 Facsimile: 617-638-4041

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Esther Bullitt wrote:
I am having trouble exporting a .x3d file in a format which programs that convert .x3d data to VRML data can read.
The error message for one of them is:
Xj3D Version: 1_0
Device found: Mouse-0 Device found: Keyboard-0 Error: Unexpected Exception: Unknown field name: chimera:hither for node: org.web3d.vrml.renderer.ogl.nodes.navigation.OGLViewpoint@1080876 Error: Failed to load file
This is enough of a hassle that we plan to add direct export to VRML97 this summer. In fact, I have yet to find a converter that produces unextended VRML97 . If you get the Xj3D converter to work for you, please let me know. The workaround for the problem you're having is to hand edit the .x3d file and remove the chimera:hither='...' and chimera:yon='...' fields from the Viewpoint tag as well as the <chimera:WindowSize ...> and <chimera:DepthCue ...> tags. Then Xj3D and X3DConv will open the file successfully. The chimera: extensions are legal XML, but Xj3D is not skipping them as it should. I'll file a bug with them. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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