Flavius, > The thing is, you should be able to > walk around inside, the outside of teh school doesn't matter that much, > even though I'd like it to be there, since you can soemtimes see the > outside walls through the windows.
For detailed buildings, Java 3D is the wrong place to start in my opinion. You should look at CAD packages, with an eye on how to export the results into a file format that can be loaded into a Java 3D scene. Building something yourself from within Java 3D is feasible, but only really practical for simple structures. Of course, you can fake the structural detail with texturing, but even that is easier to set up/test inside a 3D graphics package. The next tricky issue is what "walking around" really means in your application. For example, will it be acceptable for the user to walk through walls? Will the user be able to fly, or will he/she have to walk up stairs, through doors? The issue is obstacle detection. In that case, it helps to have a file format for your structures that is in ASCII (e.g. OBJ, VRML) so that you, or software, can extract coordinate information to help the obstacle detection code. - Andrew =========================================================================== 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".
