Joachim Diepstraten wrote: > Hmm sounds good. Will it be there before August? I've got a deadline in > August and I wonder if I can count on a 1.3final. (Which would be great).
I believe so. When we were chatting with him, he indicated they had about 2 weeks to go before pushing it out the door to the QA and web release folks. > Well I would see what OpenGL2.0 brings along (might be put final at the > same time). You will probably find that J3D 1.4 comes out before OGL 2.0. Don't believe everything you read in the papers. The one unfortunate thing that I think is going to occur is that Java3D is not going to be using a compatible shader language to what will end up in OGL 2.0/DX9. From our perspective, that's a pretty major issue. From our various discussions last week (including the 3DLabs and Sun folks apart from Doug) The OGL folks are trying to spec that common language ASAP and you will probably find it ends up as a 1.x extension well before the 2.0 spec gets finalised. > Especially when 3DLabs new card comes, OpenGL2.0 should be > just arround the corner. Not likely. OGL 2.0 is a long way off yet. They still have to do Java bindings for it and all the subsetting/profiling features they want to do. I think 3DLabs and a few other hardware vendors got a *very* major wakeup call about the absolute hard requirements that there be full Java bindings to the OGL spec last week. There will be more news on that front shortly, we're just arranging a few more things first before you see something. It's going to be pretty major when it does happen and there's quite a lot of political shit-fighting going on right now about it, but things are happening beneath that apparently calm exterior. -- 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".
