This would kick ass, especially if it were performant enough to use in game apps.
-Bob --- Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ =========================================================================== 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".
