I don't know much about rasters, but if its like everything else you can do
this:
Set the rendering attributes :
ra.setDepthBufferEnable(false);
ra.setDepthBufferWriteEnable(false);
This way they will always show. You will need to put them in an ordered
group to force them to draw last though, unless they are phsically located
at the image plate, in which case you can set the
ra.setDepthBufferWriteEnable(true);
So they own those pixels
Dave Yazel
----- Original Message -----
From: Corysia Taware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: [JAVA3D] Can DepthComponent fix this?
I'm trying to attach labels to my planets and moons. With Daniel Selman's
help, I've learned how to use a Raster object to create fixed size lables,
and it looks pretty good (see attached jpeg). But the problem I've run into
is that I can't avoid having the text obscured by the planet. The text is
being written in the exact center of the sphere. As one gets nearer to the
planet, the text is obscured. This is what's happened to the "E" in "Earth"
in the screenshot.
Is there a way to use the DepthComponent object when defining my Raster so
that Z values will be ignored? i've been reading the javadocs and the 1.2
specification, but it's not making a lot of sense to me.
I've also tried PolygonAttributes.setPolygonOffset(), but this didn't make
any apparent difference.
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