The short answer is....
VERY difficult. :-)
When you serialize something in a graph structure, the meaning of
serialize gets a little muddy... should it serialize just this node, the
node and immediate children, the entire graph, what about
NodeComponents, - textures? etc....
James Robertson wrote:
> Why aren't the scene graph components Serializable in the first place?
> Wouldn't that make life simpler?
>
> - Jim Robertson
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> Giuseppe,
>
> We have a prototype, demo API which allows you save a SceneGraph to a file
> or
> send it over a Java stream. So you will be able to send SceneGraph over the
> web.
>
> The API will hopefully be released in late January.
>
> As I said the API is a prototype and is being released as a technology
> demonstrator. It is NOT part of the Java3D release.
>
> Hope this helps....
>
> Rgds
>
> Paul
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>> From: Giuseppe Conti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [JAVA3D] Sharing a 3D world
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>> I would like to share a 3D environment between several users and then using
>> avatars to understand the presence of other users in the virtual world.
>> Since the SceneGraph is not serializable then I have excluded the idea of
>> sending it through the net.
>>
>> Has someone out there any suggestion on the matter ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Giuseppe.
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