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Creating New Node Types

Understanding External Prototypes

  • Prototypes are typically in a separate external file
  • EXTERNPROTO declares a new node type:
  • name, fields, events - as from PROTO
  • url - the URL of the prototype file 
    • EXTERNPROTO Robot [
    field MFString name
    . . .
] "robot.wrl"