Re: [JAVA3D] Animation etc

[GOBE HOBONA]

On Tuesday, Ben wrote:

From: Ben Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [JAVA3D] Animation etc
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:33:45 -0000

Hello

I was wondering what the easiest way of achieving the following is...

Say I have a loop

for (int i=0; i < 5; i++){
//perform some transformation
}

Obviously with the default java3d configuration it will just perform all
these transformations and then show you the final result. What is the
simplest way of manually talking to the renderer in order to view each
individual transformation in a sequence...kind of like flip-book
animation?

Thanks

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Ben,

I recommend creating a Behavior class that is triggered by some AWT event.
Let the Behavior class carry out each transformation.

Then let the loop dispatch the appropriate event (ie.
Component.dispatchEvent(...))

You might need to create a thread delay of a "do nothing" loop inside the
main loop to allow Java3D enough time to react.

Cheers,

Gobe Hobona
Research Student
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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