VRML can be animated with Java3d using: 1) Sun's VRML Loaders donated to Web3d 2) Sun's Java3d Fly Through Demo 3) NCSA's VRML Loaders 4) the 'new' xj3d / VRML Loaders
| ... Java 3D Fly Through ... is missing | | the .java source code files ... ? | | My download from this link yielded only the .jar files. | [ conzuk wrote to Java3d-interest list Feb 18, 2002 ] | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202&L=java3d-interest&P=46625 Sun has been generous and helpful, it is avaialable. You got it, it's in the ".jar" file ( see below ) | I use the ncsa portfolio loader to load my vrml world | into my java3D scene. In the vrml file, i have added to | my objects textures but , after the world was loaded into | my java3D scene, i haven't the texture. | | Is it a problem of ncsa portfolio loader ???? | | If yes, could you give me an address of others vrml loaders. | [ Nicolas TEISSIER wrote to Java3d-interest list Feb 18, 2002 ] | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202&L=java3d-interest&P=46729 It's a known problem, the Sun VRML Loaders are much better. The Sun VRML Loaders can be used with: -------------------- - Textures - PROTOs - animations ( Position & Orientation Interpoloators ) - Time Sensors & Touch Sensors - Web3d's H-Anim Avatars, for things like finger spelling. - games in a web browser. -- and have been used for games on the web since March 2001. Note: I'm most familiar with the 'stand-alone' version of the Sun VRML Loaders ( pre-dating the FlyThrough Demo ), I've been using them with multiple animations, including moving and rotating parts, I'm not sure of the animation capabilities of the others beyond global rotations & translations of the view position or the scene. Java3d Fly Though Demo with Source Code --------------------------------------- __ "Download Java 3D Fly Through source" __ | ( see below about ".jar" archive files ) http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/flythrough.html Java3d Fly Through Demo in action, with Game & Source ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/sc_GameBattleShip.jpg http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html Sun's VRML Loaders for Java3d ( donated to Web3d ) ----------------------------------------- http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sun/ http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sun/xj3d_src_041100.jar http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sun/doc/ http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sun/xj3d-arch-over.html Note: Java Source files in the above ".jar". On Linux, to extract the files type: jar xvf xj3d_src_041100.jar Jar File ( Date, Time, Size ): 19-Apr-2001, 11:01, 1.2M on windows Java Archive Resources ( ".jar" Files ) may be un-archived by changing the name to foo.tar.gz and using gzip ( GNU ZIP ) utilities to uncompress / de-archive the file. Games with Java3d & VRML with the Sun VRML Loaders -------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html -- Make Movies, Animate Web3d's H-Anim Avatars The 'new' Xj3d/VRML Loaders -------------------------- http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/source/xj3d.html http://j3d.org/utilities/loaders/vrml/web3d.html The j3d.org faq is controlled by Justin Couch and while helpful in many areas, it is very misleading with respect to the VRML Loaders. Lies, false statements and unethical conduct of Justin Couch, Aaron Walsh and those recieving NSF Funds at the University of Pennsylvania, and Prentice Hall have harmed our community and animation and imaging efforts by attacking the VRML Loaders from Sun, stating ( falsely ) that they can't be used to animate Web3d's H-Anim Avatars and attacking those of us using them effectively and making self-serving, and self-aggrandizing lies. Justin Couch, Aaron Walsh, and Matthew Beitler tried and failed, but those failures are reflective of their failures and not the Sun engineers who wrote those VRML loaders or the loaders themselves, and Prentice Hall books does a disservice to itself and to our communitity by repeating the false statemements of Aaron Walsh and Justin Couch. They know better, and so does the malfeasant director of the National Science Foundation: Rita Colwell cc: The Malfeasant Director of the NSF, Rita Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://staff.nsf.gov/staffpage.cfm?key=957 cc: Prentice Hall Books VRML & Java are portable, and run well on Linux and the Web, and Linux is where Hollywood animation is being done increasing often ( including Shrek and some Pixar animations ). Move beyond Windows to the forefront of computer animation. -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== 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".
