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[01.]

Question simple, but interesting. The majority 3D Engine have own player working in a browser as activX app.. And for work in other browsers (except IE) the plug-in is necessary. And so: is there are engine, which have a player/plug-in supported all other browsers(Firefox, Safari, Opera.. etc)?

At present I have looked Blaze 3D, ShiVa, DXStudio, Anark, LawMaker, Torque, Quest3d, TV3d, Vision Engine, Unigine, Visual3d, Viewpoint, NeoAxis & Powerrender.
Suitable for my purpose(in my opinion): Quest3d, Blaze 3D, Anark, DXStudio & Viewpoint.
And only Viewpoint support over browsers(Firefox, Safari, Opera), but it have bad render engine(there is no shader support for example) and it is inconvenient in use (too much time to be spent for elementary things)
I saw, that 3D Life Player(VirTools) and Unity(i'm very impressed by it, but it works only on MacOS, unfortunately) is supported by other browsers, but don't test them yet.

Your ideas, opinions, any operational experience.

[NiCoX]

ShiVa has a web player for Windows and Mac0S, and or all web browsers. And the christmas offer is very interesting...

[TMichael]

Shockwave might work well for your purposes. Adobe Director is an excellent development environment which uses Shockwave and has a very nice 3D feature set. Have a look at www.maidmarion.com for one example of what it can accomplish.

Good luck!

[birdimus]

Unity is an amazing development engine. We are still not a public site yet, so I can't share too much, but aside from being easy to use, it's very very powerful. They have a windows IDE in the works, but it's many months off. Of course the web player runs in mac and pc, you just need a mac for the development. A 500 dollar mac-mini would do it.

Unless Adobe changes big-time, shockwave is dead. Adoption is falling, and they haven't updated director in 4+ years... Not to mention it is totally crappy.

I haven't tried the others you mentioned. We did a lot of research, and Unity came up on top, despite being a small company.