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A number of tools are available to assist developers in building X3D environments. These tools serve a variety of purposes.

NameBuilderDescription
X3D-Edit Naval Postgraduate School Authoring tool based on IBM's Xena with the X3D interface developed by NPS.
Universal Media Web3D Consortium A free collection of visual media for use in X3D worlds.
SAVAGE Library Naval Postgraduate School A very large and free collection of X3D models of mostly militiary equipment.
Pellucid Eric Haines X3D 2.0 shading model display.
Graphical Registry ISO and JITC A reference list of defined graphical items.
X3D Link Checker W3C Checkes links of on-line documents and files.
Xenu's Link Sleuth Tilman Hausherr Windows program for checking for broken links.



X3D-Edit

Developer: Naval Postgraduate School
Link: https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit
Description: X3D-Edit is a graphics file editor for Extensible 3D (X3D) that enables simple error-free editing, authoring and validation of X3D or VRML scene-graph files. Context-sensitive tooltips provide concise summaries of each VRML node and attribute. X3D-Edit can simplify authoring and improve understanding for novice and expert users alike.



Universal Media

Developer: Web3D Consortium
Link: http://X3dGraphics.com/tools/UM/
Description: A free collection of visual media for use in X3D worlds.



SAVAGE Library

Developer: Naval Postgraduate School
Link: https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/
Description: The Scenario Authoring and Visualization for Advanced Graphical Environments (SAVAGE) project is a large archive of dynamic 3D military models and authoring tools, all open source and built using Extensible 3D (X3D) graphics. (Accept CA and/or SSL from Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).)



Pellucid

Developer: Eric Haines
Link: http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/applets/vrml/pellucid.html
Description: Simulates the X3D illumination model on a sphere with a single directional light.



Graphical Registry

Developer: ISO and JITC
Link: http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/nitf/graph_reg/graph_reg.html
Description: A reference list of defined graphical items developed by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (US Military) and ISO.



X3D Link Checker

Developer: W3C
Link: http://validator.w3.org/checklink
Description: Checkes links of on-line documents and files.



Xenu's Link Sleuth

Developer: Tilman Hausherr
Link: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Description: Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.



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