Frederic Gillet wrote:
> (although not really much faster than NT4.0 and STB TNT Velocity
> 4400)...
Yup, that's because of the insistence of the J3D team to write as much
of the code in Java as possible. Dumb move. There is no point buying
high-end hardware to run your apps on. You don't gain the wonders of
hardware accelaration because half the rendering cycle is spent in
interpreted code. If you want to run J3D faster, buy a bigger CPU, not a
faster graphics card.
> Still, the billboard behaviors seems to have some problems (wrong
> direction).
This appears to be due to normal flipping. It seems to interpret the
normals in the opposite direction to everyone else. We've noticed this
on some models of ours, but not on others so we're not really sure what
the problem is.
> The real problem is that Swing looks ugly and verrrrry slow: the texts
> are ugly (font looks
> fat and edgy), sometimes the color of the Swing canvas is yellow or pink
Yes, some weird video driver problems. Again, we haven't figured this
out, but our local SGI reps are well and truly aware of the problem
(because we keep phoning them every day to see if there is a fix).
> Besides, the keyboard events give me problems, I suspect the SGI
> keyboard might "use" different
> virtual key codes ...
Haven't noticed this one.
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