I was wondering how high a priority it would be for the folks at Sun to implement an extension to Java 3D that would allow users to use skeleton bones and skin techniques to deform mesh geometry?
Such a system ought to be fairly straight forward: create a BoneGroup which extends TransformGroup to implement the skeleton hierarchy and a SmoothSkin that extends Leaf and who's constructor accepts an Appearance, a GeometryArray, the root of a BoneGroup hierarchy and a vector of vectors of weights that describe per vertex the amount of deformation each bone contributes to the displacement of the vertex from it's GeometryArray position.
I've been thinking of implementing such a thing in software, but know it would run way too slowly. If the Sun engineers think this would be a good idea, I'd like to hear from them.
Mark McKay -- http://www.kitfox.com
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