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OpenSceneGraph Training Materials |
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This training material distribution contains project sources, |
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exercices, supporting data and presentations materials in support |
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of OpenSceneGraph Training Courses. The QuickStartGuide book, |
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in PDF form, and Doxygen built reference documentation, in html form, |
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are also provided as reference material. |
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Intended Purpose: |
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This distributions is provided free of charge in support of |
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course attendess and trainers. The open licensing is used |
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to faciliate collaboration that will extend and improve the |
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quality of the materials and a means of providing free access |
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to all. |
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The distribution is not intended as online training course, only |
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as a resource for those attending traning courses. |
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If you are planning on using these materials as a substitude for |
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attending training or as an online training course then you will |
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likely find these materials unsufficient for this purpose. The are |
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points where face to face discussion with the trainer are assumed, |
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without this disuccsion you may find gaps in explanation and |
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understanding that would have been provided during the proper course. |
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This is not a flaw or an oversight, rather the very nature of the |
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way courses are given. There are no plans to evolve these materials |
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into an online course nor is intended that free email support will |
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be provided to fill in these gaps. |
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Material formats & tools: |
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The lecture materials are provided in OpenOffice impress |
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presentation files, PDF files, ViewYourMind mind maps (.vym), |
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and Present3D presentation files. Present3D is an open source, |
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OpenSceneGraph based 3D presentation tool, and is provided |
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in source code form along with this distribution. To view the |
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Present3D presentations (.p3d xml files) you'll need to compile |
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and install Present3D from the provided sources. |
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Licensing: |
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Presentations are published under the Creative Commons License, |
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unless otherwise stated. |
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The Exercises are written to be used freely by end users, |
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including as part of proprietary applications without restrictions. |
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The OpenSceneGraph, VirtualPlanetBuilder are published under the |
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OpenSceneGraph Public Licence (a relaxed versiion of the LGPL). |
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Present3D is published un the Gnu Pulic License (GPL). |
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The Excerices and Course materials often assume unix platform |
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development for conciseness of text, but all materials and source |
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codes will run across all plaforms supported by the OpenSceneGraph. |
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Good luck, |
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Robert Osfield |
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March 2008. |
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