Tutorial Links

One of the greatest strengths of the VRML community has been our willingness to help one another. These folks have gone a step beyond that by creating tutorials for present and potential world builders.

VRML 97

General (English)

• Aharon Amir's tutorials
• Graeme Bennett's VRML Q&A
• Phil Berry's 3D World
• Liam Birtles' tutorial at NVRCAD
• Mark Caldwell's Introducing VRML
• Community Place tutorials
• Construct's tutorials
• Cosmo Software's Developer section
• Cosmo Software's VRML Tips and Tricks
• Justin Couch's VRMLmeisters tutorials
• Digital University's Introduction to VRML course, taught by Len Daly
• David Frerichs' Creating Integrated Web Content with VRML 2.0 at SGI
• David Frerichs' VRML tutorials and demos at SGI
• David Gerding's 20 Questions on VRML at builder.com
• Michael Heck's VRML 2.0 for Open Inventor Programmers at Template Graphics
• Intervista's VRML Creation Primer
• L. Jankovic's VRML course notes and examples at the University of Birmingham
• Richard Kapuaala (Kahuna)'s VRML Tips
• John Kichury's 3D Graphics 101 at SGI
• Mike Krus's LOD (levels of detail) tutorial
• Matt Leonard's Worlds and Tutorial
• Matthew Lewis's Building 3D Virtual Environments course notes
• Dave Nadeau, John Moreland, and Mike Heck's Introduction to VRML 2.0 presented at SIGGRAPH '96, their SIGGRAPH '98 course, and Dave's Introduction to VRML 2.0 presented at VRML 98 (over 500 pages!)
• Dave Nadeau's article in NetscapeWorld on optimizing VRML worlds (part 1) (part 2)
• Mr. Phillip's tutorials
• Pioneer Joel's tutorials
• Robert Richardson's Four Steps to a VRML Pet at ZDNet
• Marcus Roskothen (Kiwano)'s VRUniverse VRML Tutorials
• Robert St. John's Building the Perfect Tree tutorial at VRMLsite
• Daniel Schneider's and Sylvere Martin-Michiellot's VRML Primer and Tutorial
• SGI's paper on Optimizing Inventor (PostScript)
• ShareView's excerpts from their VRML training video
• SIM's Interactive VRML tutorial or mirror site
• Raymond Smith (Floppy)'s VRML Guide
• Sony's Community Place Authoring Tutorials
• Maureen Stone's VRML 2.0 Rendering Revealed
• David Story, Delle Maxwell and Geoff Brown's Authoring Compelling, Efficient VRML 2.0 Worlds
• Tutorials at the Virtual Gallery, University of Tuwein, Austria
• VRMLSite Magazine tutorial articles
• Aaron Walsh's Java URN parser demonstrates the use of Universal Resource Names (URNs)
• The Web3D Consortium's VRML Gems
• WebDeveloper.com's tutorials
• WebResource.net's VRML Center tutorials

General (other languages)

• Francisco Arocena (WMaestro)'s tutorial (Spanish)
• Thierry Blandet's tutorial (French) -- Tierry also maintains a French VRML list. Send email to sympa@u-strasbg.fr with "subscribe vrml" in the message body.
• Kamil Dabowski's course (Polish)
• Vincent Haverlant's tutorial (French)
• KDO's tutorial (French)
• Sebastien Marnier (Seb)'s tutorials (French)
• Narcis Pares' tutorial (Catalán)
• Andreas Schenkel's course (German)
• VRML Brasil (Portugese)
• VRML Dreamers' tutorial (Italian)
• VRML Users Group (German) -- Not up yet, but they do have a mailing list and a paper on VRML and Business

Color and Lighting

• Manchester's Color in Computer Graphics course notes
• PNG 1.1 Spec gamma tutorial
• sRGB Spec
• VRML Color Fidelity Working Group
• Andrew Weiler's tutorial on lighting for Digital Producer magazine

Camera (Viewpoint) Techniques

• John Simmons' VRML Camera Techniques at the VRMLworks

Extrusions

• Roland Smeenk's extrusion examples

Texture Mapping

• Cindy Ballreich's texture mapping tutorials
• My Controlling Your Textures
• David Frerichs' Pixel Perfect Textures
• A note from Paul Hoffman: if you have textures on adjacent images, sometimes a line shows up on the borders. By tweaking the TextureCoordinate values by 0.01 or so, you can get rid of that artifact. Greg Roelofs notes that the JPEG compression algorithm can create artifacts in solid colors that don't start on an even 16-pixel boundary.

Audio

• Geoff Brown's Sound Bytes: VRML Authoring for Noisy Worlds
• David Chamberlin's Notes on Using MIDI in Cosmo Player
• David Chamberlin's Tips and Recommendations for using Audio in VRML
• dFORM's VRML audio tutorial
• Mark Leavy's tips on sound and VRML here at the VRMLworks
• Mr. Phillip's Sounds in Spazz3D

Animation

• Mr. Phillip's Gestures in Spazz3D for Colony City
• Mr. Phillip's Spazz3D Animation
• Michael Wagner's courses at Arizona State University (includes a tutorial on advanced VRML animation)

Scripts

• My tutorial Taming VRML Scripts

External Authoring Interface (EAI)

• Blaxxun's Java and EAI tips
• Cosmo Software's EAI tutorials and demos
• Ross Finlayson's VRML 2.0 EAI FAQ
• Paul Hoffman's tutorial on JavaScript and the EAI at the Mining Company
• Chris Marrin's updated EAI spec proposal
• Peter Snowdon's Introduction to the VRML and Java EAI

Java

• Justin Couch's createVrmlFromX Tutorial or U.S. Mirror here at the VRMLworks
• John DeCuir's VRML-Java class notes and projects
• Alligator Descartes' tutorial on interfacing VRML and Java
• Ross Finlayson's Using Java with VRML Script Nodes and the EAI
• Kimbro Staken's Integrating VRML2.0 with Java using Netscape's Live Connect

And one more...

You know the release notes that came with your VRML browser or modeler that you've been meaning to read some day?

VRML 1.0

• Pete Clark's Easy VRML Tutorial
• Pioneer Joel's tutorials
• Cindy Ballreich's texture mapping tutorials
• Stuart Updegrave's tutorials
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library VRML tutorial

Design

• Construct's Designing VRML Environments and Do It Yourself VRML
• John Shiple and Roberta Marks' tutorial on creating a commercial VRML site
• Neil Ashdown's VRML in Art and Design (VRML 1.0) at The University of Manchester
• Misty West's The Territory is the Map: Approaching Storytelling in 3D Space

Math

• Nick Bobick's Rotating Objects Using Quarternions

Meta Lists

• 3DSite
• Cosmo Software
• Miriam English's site
• John Hayman's site
• Intervista
• Mesh Mart
• The Mining Company
• Sandy Ressler's Ultimate List of Tutorials prepared for the Content Development Working Group
• The VRML Repository
  
  

Did I miss a good tutorial? Let me know.