On Wed, 12 May 1999, Steve Byrne wrote:
> I've uploaded a pre-release version of Java 3D for Java 2 to Blackdown; it
> should reach the mirror sites over the next day or two. You'll need to have
> Mesa 3 installed to be able to run it.
Well... render me impressed! ;) I made a few modifications to the
Makefiles on my project, recompiled (just for testing), and ran it no
problem. The performance is a bit sluggish on my unaccelerated PC, as
compared to fully accelerated Sun Ultra 10s, ;) but it runs fine
nonetheless.
For those interested, the project is a 3D chat room application that
utilizes large, prebuilt worlds that users (represented by avatars)
navigate around in. It uses quite a number of different features of Java
3D, so as you can imagine, I am delighted that it worked flawlessly under
Linux with the Blackdown team's port of Java 3D.
Although my application doesn't use sound, I noticed that sound is also
supported. I tried the sample sound application (SimpleSounds), and after
realizing that esd was hogging /dev/audio, and that I needed to pass it a
directory (.), I got it to work fine. I'm curious as to how well the 3D
positional sound in Java 3D is supported under Linux as I would like to
add it to my project.
Anyways, my thanks to Steve and the rest of the Blackdown team, you've
done another great job!
Gord
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