Excellent suggestions Alessandro! If this is possible I would appreciate it too. It'd be nicer than having to write the clumsy code to work around it to do it ourselves.
- John Wright Starfire Research Alessandro Borges wrote: > > Hi J3D team, > > I have the following sugestions for final release 1.3.1 (ok, if you > have time for it ;-) ) > > * A new extend Alpha basead upon J3DTimer instead > System.currentTimeMillis(); > Reason : System.currentTimeMillis() is a very bad timer for animations. > I've tested a new version using J3DTimer and I like the results > http://www.cpm2002.hpg.ig.com.br/alessandro/gearbox/gb.html . A normal > Alpha has the same bad timer precision of System.currentTimeMillis(), > i.e , around 50ms on Win98 and 10-15ms on Win2K. On other words, your > animation seens running at 20FPS (50ms per step/"frame") even when you > got 200FPS+ . > > * A new version of WakeupOnElapsedTime, also based on the J3DTimer. > Reason : same as above, just a better timer. I am unable to have > WakeupOnElapsedTime with less than 50 ms in Win98, even when I set lower > values. > OR or a public interface of WakeupCriterion ... > > I know there are some problems as J3DTimer beeing a util, and Alpha and > WakeupCriterion belongs to J3D's core... > > P.S.: I did not check if j3d.org already have this kind of utils avail ... > > Thanks > Alessandro > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Busca Yahoo! > O servi�o de busca mais completo da Internet. O que voc� pensar o Yahoo! encontra. > http://br.busca.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".
