I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to move the camera so that it
"follows" the cube I have that is flying though space. By follow, I don't
mean just look at, but follow in the sence that it is like a chase plane.
(I've already figured out how to "point" the camera to my object using
lookAt method).
I see two possible ways to do this, but don't know what is best.
1) since the camera is contained within a TransformGroup, just get the
coords of the cube and use an offset and place the camera near the object
every frame.
2) do something with the branchgroups...moving the camera into another
branchgroup so that it automatically follows the cube.
Which of these approaches is better?
It seems like you have to define a bunch of BranchGroups for 2 to work
properly...I keep getting these exceptions having to do with access:
javax.media.j3d.RestrictedAccessException: Cannot get the parent of a live
or compiled node
Anyway, 1 seems simple, but 2 seems like it could be better for some reason.
Any thoughts?
Mike
p.s. I'm just learning Java3D.
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