Justin, Basing transperancy on bounding boxes kind of makes sense, but does that require that every object be at the root level.
For example we have created a mall scene. It is designed in max and then imported into our program. The scene is named as follows mall.store.01.walls mall.hallway.west.railing mall.hallway.west.walls mall.hallway.west.window01 The transparent textures are sometimes visible through the entire mall. We could change the naming, but it would cause all of the art to be on the root level. What is the acceptable way to handle this kind of situation as the bounding boxes will be overlapping as well as there is also one large bounding box covering the whole scene? Thanks, Steve Joachim Bratteli wrote:
myView.setTransparencySortingPolicy(myView.TRANSPARENCY_SORT_GEOMETRY) ; to let Java3D handle sorting of transparent objects automaticaly. I still get some strange problems looking at solid and transparent objects through transparent objects.
Remember that transparency sorting is based on the bounding box information to get the correct depth sorting. I think you're seeing artifacts of the bounding box not being set correctly for the shape. -- 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". _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus =========================================================================== 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".
