The default RasterTextLabel disables depth buffering. You have to enable it
manually like this:
Appearance app = rasterTextLabel1.getAppearance();
RenderingAttributes ra = app.getRenderingAttributes();
ra.setDepthBufferEnable(true);
Max
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From: Zak Nixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 08:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Transformations and rotations.
Is there anyway to stop the labels from showing up if other objects are in
front of them?
Zak
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From: Discussion list for Java 3D API
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Couch
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Transformations and rotations.
Zak Nixon wrote:
> I am placing labels in the scene, at a given fixed location. Now
when the
> viewer moves the scene(via orbit behavior) I want the labels to be rotated
> so that they are always facing the viewer. Does anyone know how to do
this?
There's a piece of code in the j3d.org codebase to do this. It is called
RasterTextLabel. It uses the j3d Raster class to present text strings
that are always rendered to the screen in a "parallel" mode (rasters are
like a straight BLT of pixels). The Raster sits in the ordinary scene
graph, so any transformations and rotations you apply keep it centered
in the correct place relative to your other objects.
http://code.j3d.org/javadoc/org/j3d/geom/RasterTextLabel.html
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