Perhaps rather than altering the existing Shape3D's or BranchGroups, try adding your new or changed geometry with a Switch. Then Switch to the new geometry, and detach your old. That works great for anmation, don't see why it wouldn't work here.
Scott Virtopia 3D http://vp2.onebigvillage.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mehrtash Babadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:01 AM Subject: [JAVA3D] Poor performance, Memory leak, any trick? ;) > Dear members, > > Hi :) > > There's a while I've been developing a > non-commercial molecule modelling software > for java and I've used java3d API for the > rendering jobs by now. There is a nasty hole > in j3d and it is too annoying these days. > On each iteration, I detach and attach a temporary > BranchGroup to a parent group but it seems > that the old branchgroup doesn't get disposed > in anyways and the memory fills up in seconds. > So, I tried to devide that temporary branchgroup > into little branchgroups and update those sub > groups but when I create a live instance of the > temporary branchgroup, the subgroups only can add > and remove branchgroups, no transformgroup and ... > is accepted (I get sth like > AccessRestrictionException) I've played with the > capability bits enough and but it hasn't helped. > So, I tried to update the Shape3D's of the sub > groups... It worked but with a really poor > performace and screen shuffle ups! > Can I switch back to the old methods I mentioned > with a trick? or can I improve the performance > of Shape3D updates on display? (I tried to > stop the renderer on the update sequence but it > didn't work!) > > Any reply is too much appreciated! > > Sorry for the long mail, > Sincerely, > Mehrtash > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > http://sports.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". =========================================================================== 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".
