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How do I put an avatar on a web page? Well, there are several different ways...
- You could just put the URL of the avatar and tell the user to cut and paste. It is very
effective and the easy way to do things. <a
href="http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl">http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl</a>
You can put additional tags in the HTML to force it to open a new window of a
specific size also.
<a
href="http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl" target="new"
width="200" height="300">http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl</a>
- You could embed the avatar world into a regular web page so folks can see the VRML model
(it is nice to put the avatar's URL below it so people can copy and paste the URL into
their "properties" panel)...
<embed SRC="brownboxavatar.wrl" width="200" height="200"
VRML-DASHBOARD="FALSE" SGI-DASHBOARD="FALSE"
align="right">
- You can use an internal frame, when the link is clicked the Avatar appears in the
iframe.
- You can do an actual frame with a master page that points
to a list which opens up the Avatar in the other frame.
- Look on this web page...
http://philliphansel.org/avatars/my_avatars.htm
There is a picture, which when clicked on runs a perl script on blaxxun's server that puts
the avatar into an avatar arena so you can see the gestures.
<a
href="http://www.blaxxun.com/cgi-bin/frameset/frameset.pl?vrmlavatar=http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl&frame=1&ie=x.bxx"
target="CCpro"
onmouseover="window.status='http://philliphansel.org/avatars/elf.wrl'; return
true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;"><img
SRC="elf.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="153"
HEIGHT="232"></a>
- The ultimate in avatar display is to use JavaScript
to VRML interaction to pass an avatar's URL to a VRML display world. It is a more
complicated technique, but it allows folks to see the avatar and to preview the gestures.
There is certainly more than one way to skin a cat! Each method has it's advantages and
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