[JAVA3D] Background(branchgroup)

[Jeremy Teeuwsen]

I am trying to create a sky box using the background class and some
simple geometry.  Needless to say I am not having a lot of success.  Has
anyone done this before?

Currently I am getting a giant sphere in the middle of my screen that
has no texture and doesn't appear to be remotely close to the effect
that I am trying to achieve.  The following is a code segment for how I
am trying to implement it:

protected BranchGroup createBackgroundBranchGroup (){
        // Set background
        BufferedImage image = null;
        URL url = null;
        url =
getClass().getResource("/ca/beq/realdesk/layout/sky_front.jpg");
LOG.info("url = " + url);
        if (url != null) {
                try {
                        image = ImageIO.read(url.openStream());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        LOG.info("no background image opened");
                }
        }//if

        int icFormat = ImageComponent.FORMAT_RGB;
        if (image !=null) {
                LOG.info("bg image is not null");
              ImageComponent2D imageComponent= new
ImageComponent2D(icFormat,image);
              if (imageComponent != null){

                        //I make it to here no problem and can display a
//background image, but can't get the sky sphere to work
//properly

                      Appearance sphereAppearance = new Appearance();
                        Texture2D sphereTexture = new
Texture2D(1,5,256,256);

                        sphereTexture.setImage(0,imageComponent);
                        sphereAppearance.setTexture(sphereTexture);

                        Sphere sphere = new Sphere(10f,
sphereAppearance);

                        BranchGroup branch = new BranchGroup();
                        branch.addChild(sphere);
                        Background bg = new Background(branch);
                        bg.setImage(imageComponent);
                        bg.setApplicationBounds(new BoundingSphere(new
Point3d(), 1000));
                      return branch;
              }
        }//if
        return new BranchGroup();
} // createBackgroundBranchGroup ()

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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