As Dave mentions yes, you will not "see" the move as it will move
instantaneously unless you use a behavior or thread so that the renderer
sees each update and not the result of all these updates. Using a
behavior is the easiest way to do this.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
"Yazel, David J." wrote:
>
> Well I don't think thats likely to work. Because it is in a AWT event and
> not in a behavior for one thing. What I would expect to happen is you push
> the button and it will do the 100 transforms in under one frame, thus the
> next frame will jump the object to the end destination. I do the vast
> majority of all my transformations without using interpolator behaviors, but
> you need to calculate the transformation icnrement on each frame or there is
> no animation.
>
> Dave Yazel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] How do I move an object without interpolators?
>
> Michael,
>
> That code looks like it should work. Assuming of course the
> TransformGroup and it's object are in the scene with appropriate
> capability bits set.
>
> - John Wright
> Starfire Research
>
> "Michael P. McCutcheon" wrote:
> >
> > I am used to programming in VRML. With it, you would have a
> > TimeSensor...you would route the timesensor to a particular object, on
> which
> > you would have a method that was called after each frame. In this method
> > you would update the position of your objects, then when the method
> > completed, VRML did it's rendering, and the time sensor would then do it
> all
> > over again.
> >
> > What I'm wondering, if I want to move a simple object around from 0 to
> -500,
> > say in 1 increments, (without using an interpolator, I want to explictly
> set
> > it my self), how would I do this? I ran some code like this but it simply
> > does not seem to work:
> >
> > I have this in an event handler of a AWT button:
> >
> > for(int counter=0; counter<100; counter++) {
> > z=z-0.2f;
> > translation.set(0,0,z);
> > transform3D.setTranslation(translation);
> > transformGroup.setTransform(transform3D);
> > }
> >
> > Any tips on what classes I should be looking at to do such a thing the
> right
> > way?
> >
> > Thanks for any info...
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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