Updates for those interested in open source Java3D code. http://code.j3d.org
The repository is kicking along quite nicely thanks to a bunch of recent contributions. A lot of these are starting to get to the Really Useful Stuff(TM) stage. Recent Additions over the past couple of weeks: Generalised Particle System (Daniel Selman) 2D Overlay System (Dave Yazel, Will Holcomb and myself) Texture Cache System (Me) In addition, there are piles of other useful stuff - geometry generators, file loaders, input device implementations, GP interpolators and UI code for GP use as well as terrain following/collision avoidance. The code is getting to the stage of being generally useful, but could do with large-scale debugging. I'd like about a week of testing and then I'll mark CVS with V0.6 tags. The most recent Javadoc is now online (hooray!!!) at http://code.j3d.org/javadoc/. And, I know people want pre-built JARs of the code. I'll do that tomorrow morning over breakfast. Those really keen will just have to use CVS and build the code themselves. There is still quite a lot of things I would like to see in the codebase. I really welcome almost anything Java3D related, particularly well designed stuff (I'm very picky over code quality). Procedural textures and spline surfaces (although I have a half impl for that already) are some areas I'd like to bolster the library with. Of course, more file loaders and input device implementations are always welcome. All donated code must be licensable under the LGPL. The future additions have the following in my Inbox ATM: An STL file reader, and Dan's J3DTree code. There is also an (open) offer from one of the Sun engineers for a ROAM implementation and some other terrain stuff. Just need to get past the lawyers with that one. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Freelance Java Consultant http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== 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".
