Alvin,
Yes, we have been considering doing this.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
Alvin Yue wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I couldn't help making my last comment on this. As I just did a research about
>Open Source
> Development. The recent trend seems to be offering free version and advanced version
>(paid
> version). One of the examples will be NetBeans. I'd think that instead of asking for
>donation,
> make a free (limited feature) version available and definitely charge for a deluxe
>version. Hopefully, this will give you better incentive to create the best 3DS loader
>for Java3D.
>
> Alvin
>
> John Wright wrote:
>
> > Alvin,
> >
> > If anyone would like to step up and pay for the development time I'd be
> > glad to add this feature. So far not a single person has sent any
> > payment and yet our loader is downloaded on average three times per day.
> >
> > As I understood it the reverse engineered URL support is rather
> > convoluted (essentially counts on gaining permissions to write the file
> > temporarily on the user's local hard drive).
> >
> > I agree that for many projects it would be nice to leave out the extra
> > step of converting. But I'm assuming most projects will desire the
> > higher performance that using a "native" format can deliver.
> >
> > I'll speak with the rest of my team and see what they think about
> > diverting time to developing direct URL support.
> >
> > - John Wright
> > Starfire Research
> >
> > Alvin Yue wrote:
> > >
> > > John,
> > >
> > > I respect your reasoning. But, your customers are crying for this feature.
> > > It would add work to convert from 3DS to SUN's format. If a company
> > > want to minimize number of models files, I'd assume that they'd want to
>standardize
> > > on a more widely used format. Hope you'd think about this again. Also, didn't
>someone
> > > add the URL support by reverse engineering? Could that work be included back to
> > > the official version?
> > >
> > > Alvin
> > >
> > > John Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > > Boris,
> > > >
> > > > No. Since Sun is releasing code that will allow saving scenes in a
> > > > "native" format (they have support for both file access and URL access)
> > > > we have decided not to pursue adding URL support to our loader. We
> > > > consider this loader a way to convert from 3DS to Java 3D. And even
> > > > though it is far faster than most other loaders using Sun's code will
> > > > result in even faster loading. So our recommendation is to model in
> > > > Max, generate your 3DS file, user our loader to get it into Java 3D and
> > > > then use Sun's code to save it "native". (then use Sun's code to load it
> > > > however you wish).
> > > >
> > > > - John Wright
> > > > Starfire Research
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear friends,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a need in loading a 3ds file from an URL into my applet. I checked
>several available loaders listed in http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders.html.
>However, even the best of them developed by Starfire does not carry this
>functionality. I wonder if anybody came across this problem and how you solved it? My
>friends from Starfire, are you working on this enhancement of your valuable utility?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for your help
> > > > >
> > > > > Boris
> > > > >
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