Hello to all the smart people out there! I'm planning a multi-user, client/server 3D application and would like to clear up a conceptual problem right at the start: I'll have a fairly large 'world', common to all users, modelled as a scene on a server. Then there will be some dozens of users interacting in this world from client programs connected to the server via the Internet. An obvious solution to allow every user to view the common 'world' would be to distribute the SceneGraph, i.e. the complete world model, to each client and keep it updated everywhere. But it would seem to me to be more practical to have just one copy of the SceneGraph on the server, to give each remote user his own ViewPort and to connect the ViewPorts to the SceneGraph via RMI (or something). That way, hopefully rather than sending all updates of the entire world to each client, I would only be sending those changes visible from each respective ViewPort. Is this feasible? Any idea how I would go about doing this? Any better ideas? Thanks for your interest, -Carl- =========================================================================== 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".
