[JAVA3D] About Testing Java3D 1.2.1 Beta Version

[hongkun]

Hi everybody, I downloaded Java3D 1.2.1 beta version today and made a quick test. I created a new version of my Java3D games website with this version.   Welcome to visite my Java3D Games website: http://www.stas.net/6/online3dgame/ I would appreciate it if you can give me some test report or suggestion, especially for Java3D auto-installation for players.   Please note that you could not find all the bugs I describe here, since I changed some codes to get a work-around. The following problems are still in this Java3D 1.2.1 beta version: (1) The result of 'getImplementationVersion()' is not as good as those in 1.2. Before it return "1.2 OGL" for OpenGL and "1.2 D3D" for DirectX, now it only return "1.2.1" for both version. This is a very important function for developer to distinguish the implementation verion. (2) There is no specular color effect for OGL verion. (3) Transparent Rendering problem, this is a 'famous' problem which bothering a lot of developers, we still have to manullay sort the transparent objs to resolev this problem. (4) 'IndexOutOfBound' exception still pop up when we detach/attach a child of a OrderedGroup. (5) OrientedShape somtimes disappear at rendering time. (6) We did get a signed JAR for Java3D extension, so the installation is still a tough problem.   I believe there are many improvement in this version, since I just test it with my 3D games, so I did not find out.   Hongkun