I have a friend and he recently started to learn “Cinema 4D”. He asked me if I could build him a website in which he could build a3D world, or room, using a Cinema4D file, where people could visit his work. Probably by interacting with objects.
I’ve searched a bit in StackOverflow and I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/196556/are-browser-based-online-games-possible.
It gave me some ideas, but that’s not exactly the same thing. My question is. Is this application possible? Can I build such a website, using his Cinema4D files, allowing people to interact the website application like in a 3D game? Would this be possible with Silverlight (.NET is the technology where I feel more comfortable)? Probably with XNA port to Silverlight? I don’t know… Does anyone of you could give an advice on how to architect and build this? I need some expertise (at least greater than mine! :)) from you guys.
Thank you very much!
You might want to look into Unity3D. They have a web plugin that allows the 3D scenes to be interacted with in a browser. I am not sure if it can import Cinema4D files directly, but i’m sure Cinema4D can export to a format that is supported.
UPDATE: Just checked Unity’s manual, and it supports directly importing .c4d files.