For the exercice of this lesson you can use any 3D model having an .ASE file created by 3ds max. But, if you are, like the majority, a poor guy, member of the community of the "3dsmax-less", you can use the .ASE file (and textures) downloaded at the lesson linked here. It is - if you are doing all our exercices - at your computer, at the path of the figure:

First of all you will create a new Class (subclass of TeapotMorph): Factory. We will use this class for the creation of all the remote spaces.

Like ever, we will have 3 scripts. The first is a "make function":

makeRemoteSpR8: sp
 
| spR  tframe    url  |

"Creating a new space"
spR := TSpace new.
self makeLight: spR.
self makeFloor: spR fileName:'StoneFloor.BMP'.

"Add 3D models here"  
 
tframe := (TLoad3DSMax new initializeWithFileName: 
	   (FileDirectory pathFrom:
             {FileDirectory default pathName. 'Content'.
              'LegoicM'. 'avatarM.ASE'}) 
	   scale: 0.1 shadeAngle: 90.1 textureMode: GLReplace) frame.
tframe translationX:  20 y: -3 z:  20.
tframe rotationAroundY: 180. 
tframe boundsDepth: 3.
tframe initBounds.
spR  addChild: tframe.
 

"Exporting the  remote space"
url := 'http://www.dmu.com/TeaLand/spaces/remoteSpR8.tea'.
TExporter export: spR asBinary:url.

CODE COMMENTS

• 1 - We will use the same TLoad3DSMax Class we have used at many other lessons.
• 2 - You define the path your-site/TeaLand/spaces/ - not www.dmu.com, of course - for the "export" but the file will not go to your site. It will go to a path similar of the figure:
  ATTENTION: If you did the exercice of the previous lesson you have the same files on the path of the figure. If you like to use the DMU address - this is not really inportant - you need to erase this file/folder before to run the application, to see better the results
• 3 - Don't use, at the remote space, any object of the Class TSkyBox. At this moment (november 2004 - it's beta-time, folks!) it has a bug...

We will use an "empty space for compilation" to see if the export was OK. So, you need to create the old:

initializeDefaultSpace 

| space  |
"Create an empty space for test purpose only"
space := TSpace new.
"Make a light"
self makeLight: space.
"Make a floor"
self makeFloor: space fileName:'lawn.BMP'.
"Creating the remote space - it will not appear!"
self makeRemoteSpR8: space. 
^space.

It's important to note that the remote space will not appear at this "empty space for compilation". It's only an alert saying that all was OK at the "doit-ization" of our code. If you did some errors they will appear, not the "empty space".

The "script for Workspace" has a message in the title:

fT:= Factory new. 
win2D:=   SystemWindow new.
lf:= LayoutFrame new.
lf leftFraction:0.
lf rightFraction:1.
lf topFraction:0.
lf bottomFraction:1.
win2D setLabel: 'SEEING EMPTY SPACE: ALL IS OK!'.
win2D addMorph: fT fullFrame:lf.
win2D openInWorldExtent: 500@150. 
fT requestInitialSpace.

If all is really OK, you have the files (.TEA and textures) in that path and you need to upload them to your webserver - that needs to accept TEA files like mime-type. Similar we did at this previous lesson you need to create a new directory etc. (it's not "simectric" etc.). Look our WS_FTP:

TIP: If, after this exercice, you will make a test, creating a Remote Portal at your Solo area for this new remote space, erase first the file and folder created on your machine, to see better the results.

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