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Syntax: EXTERNPROTO

Creating new node types
Syntax: EXTERNPROTO
  • Prototypes are typically in a separate external file

  • An EXTERNPROTO declares a new node type in an external file
  • name, fields, events - as from PROTO
  • url - the URL of the prototype file 

    • EXTERNPROTO SpiralBall [
    field SFFloat cycles 1.0
    . . .
] "spiral.wrl"