vrweb - VRML browser and editor

vrweb [Options] [File]

VRweb is a VRML 1 browser that you can use to browse a Virtual Reality World (wrl).

-h, -help

gives a short description of possible command line arguments.

-verbose

turns on verbose output (incl. IPC communication); use it to locate VRweb crashes (if they should ever happen...) and include the output in the bug report

-lang[uage] lang

sets the language of the user interface to one of [english|german|french|italian|spanish|korean|japanese|styrian]. There are currently no plans for supporting other languages. Please, send bug reports or information requests in English or German only.

-URL url

base URL for relative references (typically set via -URL %u in ~/.mailcap).

-remote file

open file in a running VRweb instance or create a new VRweb window if none found. It is not possible to redirect stdinput to a remote instance. However the optional file argument after all options allows this using a -.

-getRemoteID

determines the X11 window ID of a running VRweb instance or 0x0 if none found. Exits afterwards.

-remoteViewpoint

make a running VRweb instance jump to a named viewpoint, defined with argument -URL _baseurl_#camera, and exit.

-helpDir dir

directory or URL where to find on-line help files. Defaults to ~/.vrweb/help.

-fontDir dir

directory of VRweb font files. Defaults to ~/.vrweb/fonts.

-bg3d color

set scene background color. Color specified as for -bg.

-draw[mode]

select the initial drawing mode to be one of [wireframe|hiddenline|flat|smooth|texturing]

-intdraw[mode]

selects the interactive drawing mode to be one of the list above or same to use the same mode during navigation too.

-speed

sets an (overall) speed factor for navigation

-alphaplanes

inquire visual with alpha-bitplanes. Their use in VRweb is limited to the `quality polygon antialiasing' option (OpenGL version). They are not needed for transparency.

-mesabackbuf

selects the backbuffer for Mesa to be one of [pixmap|image|auto]. Pixmap transfers each drawing command immediately to the XServer. Image causes all drawings to be made into an XImage, which is transfered to the XServer when complete; shared memory usage (only available when displayed locally) makes this transfer fast. The default setting auto uses image for shaded views and pixmap for wireframes.

-singlebuf

turns off double buffering for 3D renderings. Usually slower than double buffering. OpenGL however may provide a X-visual with greater depth.

-indirect

render OpenGL through X-server (slower).

-mosaic

use mosaic for anchor requests and on-line help or netscape(1).

-local

force WWWInline and Texture2 to be searched as local files.

/usr/share/doc/vrweb/help/vrwebhlp.html

VRweb is developed by Michael Pichler and Keith Andrews at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) of Graz University of Technology, Austria.

This manual page was created by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).