Karsten,
It was fixed in the latest release, try it.
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- Chien Yang
Java 3D Team.
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> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:12:44 +0100
> From: Karsten Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Picking problems with some geometry
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi Andreas, thanks for your suggestion...
>
> > I ran into just the same problem a few days ago. I wasn't sure if this
> > is a real bug and wasn't able (because of time manners of my project) to
> > create a test program - maybe you can. A workaround may be to use a
> > simple TriangleArray instead of a TriangeStripArray. It uses more Memory
> > but the result should be fine :-)
>
> Yeah, I can do that workaround for some cases, but for some reasons I
> use the
> com.sun.j3d primitives like cylinder and sphere to generate my geometry.
> Then
> i read the geometry from these and do my stuff.
>
> Unfortunately the cylinders create TraingleStripArrays for their bodies
> (and
> for completeness TriangleFanArrays for the bottom and top geometry)
>
> A workaround would therefore mean:
>
> * generate cylinder with sun primitive classes
> * read geometry from the generated shapes
> * for TriangleStripArrays:
> * convert the TriangleStripArray to a TriangleFanArray
> (uff, that sounds nasty to me, you have to keep track of normals
aso)
> * be happy
>
> So for the nasty part, i hope some sun boy/girl keeps me from doing
> stuff like that
> by enabling the picking for TriangleStripArrays.
>
>
> Best regards
> Karsten
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