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4/17/2007 4:46 AM
 

Hello

I wonder if a module is available to incorporate something like this  (see link below) into my DNN site:

http://www.marshalls.co.uk/transform/garden_visualiser/

I know I can link to the above in an iframe, but is customised software to suit the above company, and I don't think they will be too happy, (although as a test I have iframed it to see it working, but it does not fully work via iframe). I suspect that the above site is not DNN based, but even so, how did they do that?

I can get a basic 3D interactive garden planning software, to do something similar and run it on my desktop, but I don't know how to get it to run in DNN?

Is there a module available, that will incorporte and run the 3D software directly on my site, so that site visitors can interact and use it on line?

Or can this be done another way?  Perhaps somehow run it through Flash? Any ideas?

Thanks

Lynn


www.seemalta.net
 
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4/17/2007 8:51 AM
 

That's a custom application that Marshall's will have spent a lot of money having built for them. It's a lot more complex than something thrown together with a DNN module. To offer the same thing yourself, you would have to hire developers and designers and have them build a similar program. Not a simple or cheap task by any measure.

If you did have such a tool of your own, and if it were built in flash/shockwave then you could certainly run it in DNN or anywhere.. it basically just sits there in the static HTML... the user downloads a plug-in to play it.

Rob

 
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4/18/2007 4:16 AM
 

Hi Rob

Thanks for the reply. 

No I do not have the money to hire developers and designers. Nor do I have such a tool built in Flash and I don't have the time to build one.  But I can purchase software to do somthing similar (not customised) I just need to get it running in my site rather than on my desktop.

Thanks

Lynn


www.seemalta.net
 
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4/18/2007 4:48 AM
 

Hi again,

I've just had another look into it and the 3D visualzer field does seem to have a sizable community of developers. You might want to try asking at sites like this one http://www.cgarchitect.com/

If you post the example in their forums, they might have some advice.

Rob

 
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4/18/2007 4:56 AM
 

Unfortunately the difference between desktop and web based software is huge. Unless the desktop software is designed to run on a web enabled delivery platform such as shockwave, flash or the recently annonced silverlight - http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/  you're pretty much out of luck on this type of requirement.

Trying to run other peoples web apps in an iframe without permission is a bad idea. The webmaster at the other end will quite quickly see all the requests from your site, and things could get a little unpleasant from a legal point of view.

 
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