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A tiny guide to customizing Clara for your own needs and wishes Basically there are three different (difficulty-)levels
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1. Changing the geometry As you take a look at the .wrl-files in the "sKdefaultTheme"-subdirectory
of your Clara-installation, you will find all the geometry mangled
into those files. The easiest thing to do is to modell new geometries
in your favorite modeller (or write them manually ;-) ), to export
these geometries to VRML97 and to cut and paste them into the apporpiate
places. Look out for the SITE-PROTO and the part, where an "sKWebTexture"
is applied to the geometry. These are the geometrical discriptions
for the broswser sites. In the defaultTheme we provide in this first
pre-release they consist of a couple of IndexedFaceSets, IndexedLineSets
and Textures. Just start experimenting by replacing one after the
other with your geometries (try for example to map the websites
onto a sphere, they will still be usable browsers!!!). Also, look
out for the chatter-avatars and the platform they stand on. a full guide will be available soon
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2. Changing the behaviour / arrangement of the elements A more sophisticated way to costumize your world
is entering the scripts of the wrl-files. Here nearly every single
aspect of the user interface is handled. You can change key-assignments,
geometry arrangements and even the handling of the URLs. You should
know your way around in wrl-scripting and especialy PROTO-instancing
for this, as there are quite a lot of things to consider to make
thing happen. Until a complete guide is available, check out the
comments in the wrl-source
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3. adding your own plugins in dlls We provide an dll-interface for external dlls to be dynamically linked into the program. Have a look into the ReadMe.txt that is located in sKDlls-subdirectory for a small howto and an example. |