Hi,
I've spent the past three weeks reading the Java3D tutorial and coming from a
world of J2SE and some J2EE background I find the entire Java3D API very ugly. I can
fully appreciate the fact that a lot of this uglyness came from OpenGL (which in
itself is a
very poorly designed API) but I mean, why does Java3D have to match it this much?
An example of what I mean:
- Why are there like 3-5 different places to specify color attributes and then during
runtime only 1 out of all these colors actually gets used depending on your settings?
There should be a single location to set colors and that's it.
- Why does Rendering attributes have a depthOffset attribute that basically is used to
"tweak" rendering because some implementations won't draw wireframe spheres and
filled spheres to the same radius and you end up with "stiching"? I mean, this is
ridiculous.. Java3D should guarantee that regardless of the underlying implementation
when I say radius 5 for a wireframe or filled version of some polygon it means the same
thing. This is common sense people..
I do fully appreciate that Java3D is a great API in itself in that it is cross
platform
and hides a lot of other OpenGL uglyness .. so it's "less ugly" but still.. why do
some of
the above features exist at all? Why can't we have a "pure API" like J2SE? I mean, it
has some issues but when you look at it overall you can't help but be impressed with
how well designed it was and how generally clean it is.
Just my 2 cents.. Let me know if I'm missing something..
Thanks,
Gili
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