From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 13:12:14 CDT

Dear Darui,
  Sounds like there's a bug in the 'vrmlview' program you're using.
I've loaded the VRML2 files generated by VMD in several other programs
without any trouble. Do you have any other viewers?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:37PM -0400, Darui Xu wrote:
> Hi, there
> I got vmd 1.8.1 running on linux. When I was rendering to vrml2.0, the
> console showed that the rendering was successful. But when I used vrmlview
> on linux to look at the .wrl file, there was the segmentation fault. If I
> used render vrml-1 and looked at the .wrl, there was the message:
> Warning: Illegal number for shininess: 40.000000 (changing to 1.0)
> and nothing showed up on the screen. Could you give me some help on how to
> do rendering to vrml ?
>
> thanks
> best,
> darui

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