Evening all, hope you are keeping toasty warm courtesy of my recent emails. Appologies to those in the southern hemisphere where it is still on the tail end of summer weather. I'm up north at the moment where it's a little chilly and so need to keep myself warm a bit :)
Anyway, I have a serious question about stuff that could be added to the j3d.org code repository. In the X3D spec, there is a lot of talk about extended texture nodes. These provide windows to applications, and more interestingly, some way of defining SVG content to be used as a texture *or* as a 2D overlay on the window. We have another issue within Xj3D of not yet supporting the Text node. Ahha! says I, we have an interesting convergence point here. Perhaps there might be some use in providing a generic texture surface that does SVG stuff and can put it into 3D as a texture or maybe full object. In addition, it seems quite a few people don't like the current Text2D node, and using something like SVG texture might be a worthwhile option. We're going to need text support fairly quickly for a couple of our projects. What level of interest is there in us putting in the extra effort and making this a generic thing that would become part of the code repository? I would be looking to grab one of the open source SVG libraries as the basic rendering tool, and then using that to push out content as an animated texture or something like that. Maybe, I could also get the overlay code going again to push it into that area. We (yumetech) need to do this anyway, I'm just wondering what level of interest there might be in the greater community, and hence how much extra effort we should throw into getting it doing it properly v hacking up something simple. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler 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".
