Did I miss something, or is this email a repost? Incidently, what format is your image? Does it actually have an Alpha channel?
Kev > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Lan Wu-Cavener [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 21:48 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] advice and tips on a tree texture > mapping > > > Thank you very much, Florin! > > I tried RGBA, and a more "full" tree image, I got the space between the > foliage black instead of white. Does that mean that the image > background part stapled to the geometry will not be transparent? > >>In order to look more realistic, then you really need to have a little >>more complex geometry for the "green" part, and use dot3 bump mapping >>for the trunk. >>Do you mean that I need to create geometry in a similar shape as the >>tree shape in image? Could you please explain a little bit more? > > My geometry for the tree is editable by user which limited the degree > to customized the geometry to the image tree shape. > > Thanks again! > Lan > > > >>Cheers, >> >>Florin >> >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>Von: Lan Wu-Cavener [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 21:44 >>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Betreff: [JAVA3D] advice and tips on a tree texture mapping >> >> >>Hi, everyone: >> >>I am seeking advice despately. I did texture mapping on a tree object >>which is in a shape of two triangles (connected base to base). The >>underline geometry is a TriangleStripArray. The problem is that the >>tree is "Trimmed" to geometry shape. It looks very ugly. See attached >>picture (very embarrassing to show). Plus, the space between the >>foliage is not transparent. I was wondering if anyone could give me >>some hints as how to make the trees more realistic looking. I have >>played with it for couple of days and failed to figure out what was >>wrong. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks in advance! >> >> Here are the code that I use to set the appearance bundle. >> >> Texture2D treeTex = new Texture2D(Texture.BASE_LEVEL, >>Texture.RGB, >> image.getWidth(), >>image.getHeight()); >> treeTex.setImage(0, image); >> treeTex.setEnable(true); >> treeTex.setBoundaryModeS(Texture.CLAMP_TO_EDGE ); >> treeTex.setBoundaryModeT(Texture.CLAMP_TO_EDGE ); // get >> the >>texture from the loader >> treeTex.setMagFilter(Texture.BASE_LEVEL_LINEAR); >> >> TextureAttributes texAttr = new TextureAttributes(); >> texAttr.setTextureMode(TextureAttributes.REPLACE); >> >> RenderingAttributes renderAtt >> >appearance.getRenderingAttributes(); >> renderAtt.setIgnoreVertexColors(true); >> appearance.setTexture(treeTex); >> appearance.setTextureAttributes(texAttr); >> >> >>Lan Wu-Cavener >>Dept. of Landscape Architecture >> >>˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ >>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". > > Lan Wu-Cavener > Dept. of Landscape Architecture > > ==========================================================================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". =========================================================================== 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".
