Hi, I just started using Java3D. My goal is to create a realistic representation of the Milky Way. To begin with I just created a small region of space (100 by 100 light years), which contains about 4000 stars (PointArray) - the engine renders this just fine. Obviously I had to adjust the clipping distances. I want to be able to see at least 100 light years away. In fact, the farthest star that we can see under the best of conditions is probably about 4075 light years away, so I would like to go higher, but this will do for now. My problem is, however, that due to the limitations of the front/back clipping ratio, I cannot see objects closer than 94,6 million kilometres away. This is not really too viable if I were to meet another spaceship for example.
I understand that the hardware needs this ratio for determining distance to objects in order to render them in the correct order, yet I was hoping that someone might have an idea of how to circumvent this problem. Thanks in advance. /Jørn =========================================================================== 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".
