When resetting the loopcount, you need to remember to reset the start time.
Alpha.setStartTime(System.currentTimeMillis()) works fine for me, but you
may have to use an offset (ie System.currentTimeMillis()+100) to keep the
animation fluid.
Evan Drumwright
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Kin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:57 PM
Subject: [JAVA3D] A question about : How to trigger animation?
>Hi,
>I need to simulate airport deployment with Java3D. In my program, each
aircraft is a thread, it has several differrent behaviors, such as landing,
taking off, turn, etc. Each behavior is a method in the aircraft class and
is called by run method.
>class aircraft extends BranchGroup implements Runnable{
> ...
> public void run{
> ...
> switch( aircraft_status){
> case 0: landing(); break;
> case 1: takingoff(); break;
> case 2:...
> ...
> }
> }
> public void landing(){..}
> public void takingoff(){ ...}
> ...
>}
>
> I creat a PositionPathInterpolator for each behavior. In the RUN method,
the status of aircraft is checked continously, if the status is chaged, then
cooresponding animation is triggered.
>The problem is that the loopcount of Alpha is set to 1, the aircraft only
animate the first time it's called, and when the same behavior is called for
the second time and later, the aircraft does not move at all!
> I tried many ways, such create a new Alpha, create a new Interpolator, ...
>all failed. I really have no idea now.
>( it works well when the loopcount is set to -1, otherwise it does not
work)
>Is there anybody know how to trigger the animation and let the aircraft
animation loop only once each time it's triggered?
>Thanx!
>Mike
>
>===========================================================================
>To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
>of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
>
===========================================================================
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
