Hello, I've been working on a standalone networked game using Java 3D and was wondering if there is eventually going to be support for using hardware 3d acceleration when a application is launched in a window. It is my understanding that currently you have 2 options, use software rendering in windowed mode, or launch the whole app in fullscreen mode to take advantage of the users hardware acceleration. Am I wrong in this assumption? The problem I have is I'd like to handle things like the login screen, character creation, etc. with swing windows, and once they are ready to enter the game switch to either full screen mode or at the very least a window which supports the faster rendering. Also, if anyone has any information on good networking models for Java3D in a client/server environment could you point me to it? I've been playing with custom sockets and RMI, trying to figure out the cleanest way to update a clients virtual world based on information passed from the server and haven't found much information pertaining to that so far. The ideal situation would be to just update the users immediate surrounding rather than have to update the client with EVERYTHING that is happening in a potentially large world. Thanks! ----------------------------- Kevin Clark Struggling Java3D programmer =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
