Karen Dias wrote:
> Can't a person get the source for Java 3D & if so,
FAQ question #2 - simple answer: no
> what would be the
> rational for hiding what the collision detection algorithm does? I'm a
> robotics engineer and for my applications IT DOES MATTER what the collision
> detection algorithm does.
Yup. Please take a number and wait for it to be called....
There are *many* people wanting documentation of _everything_. I know
the Sun guys are going to hate me for this, but talking to them last
week revealed some extremely frightening revelations. Even internally
they do not have architecture documents. Each new programmer coming to
work on the code has to be given the introductory speach about the code
by one of the old time programmers. There is not a single document that
allows them to sit down and have a rough idea what is going on before
starting. Then, once programming, there is no documentation within the
code either.... It's a bloody wonder that things work at all with such
shoddy engineering practices. Honestly if one of my engineers gave me
code like that I would throw it back in their face telling them to not
bother with it until it was properly documented.
So, if Sun doesn't know what it's own code is doing, I doubt you have
even got a hope of getting something from them!
> I guess from what I've read here that if I decide to use Java 3D for my
> application, I'll probably be stuck writing my own collision detection code.
Yes, you and everyone else. For all intents and purposes, J3D's
collision detection system is useless.
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Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker
http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer
http://www.j3d.org/ J3D.org The Java 3D Community Site
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