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# What's Where? Shout3D 1.0 contains the following directories. All of these are located within the top-level directory into which you installed Shout3D 1.0. docs - contains all of the following: Quick Start Tutorial - a 10 minute introduction to Shout3D. Demos - descriptions and links to all the bundled demos. User Guide - this very guide! How to author for, program, and publish using Shout3D and the Shout3DWizard. Shout3D Specification - technical description of all the elements of Shout3D scenes and applets, and how these elements interoperate. JavaDocs - complete documentation of the Java API for all classes and interfaces in the Shout3D package Shout3d_wizard - contains the Shout3DWizard, an interactive tool for publishing 3D applets to the web. Also contains the VRML 2.0 to Shout3D converter (vrml2tos3d.exe). Shout3D_runtime - Contains all the files you need to run Shout3D applets -- the java classes that comprise Shout3D applets and also the resource files (html, VRML, images, etc) used by the bundled demos. Contains: codebase -- java classes, source code for demos, and assets: applets -- a java package of sample applets (source java included) custom_nodes -- a java package of sample nodes (source java included) models - The 3D models used in the demos. Most of these have 3 versions: a VRML 97 model, a Shout3D format (.s3d) version, and a compressed Shout3D format (.s3z) version. images -- media assets used in the demos sounds -- media assets used in the demos shout3d -- a java package containing the Shout3DApplet and Shout3DPanel, as well as 3 other nested packages core -- a java package containing the core Shout3D classes (source not included) math -- a java package containing some handy matrix and rotation methods (source not included) sound - a java package containing the JavaSound node, for playing sounds within a 3D scene.(source not included) demos - A set of html files. Each loads some assets from the codebase directory into an applet also contained in the codebase directory. Click here to see a web page that describes and links to all the demos. Copyright© 1999-2000, Shout Interactive, Inc.