[JAVA3D] J3D Source code.

2002-04-30 Thread Sharon Lin
Why the j3d source code is not published? Its very hard to explore the api only with the javadoc and without the code complete that have in most of the IDE's. Sharon.

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread David Yazel
Here are the stats, which are not exactly accurate since I have to disable complied branchgroups to collect the info, which skews some of the info. But its in the right ballpark. Scene Statistics: [2 min 0 sec, 68mb/108mb] Shapes : 355 [2 min 0 sec, 68mb/108mb] Geometries : 707 [2 min 0 sec, 68mb

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread David Yazel
Sorry, should have been more specific: At 32 bit color, 1028x768, PIII 700 Mhz, Geforce II : 50 fps At 32 bit color, 1028x768, P4 2GHz, Geforce IV : 100 fps The first machine is our low end target. The plan is to enable more and better options for the higher end machines. The framerate is bein

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread Scott
What CPU and screen resolution? Scott - Original Message - From: "David Yazel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie > That was taken on a geforce II, which it runs at about 50fps. It runs at > 100 f

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread David Yazel
That was taken on a geforce II, which it runs at about 50fps. It runs at 100 fps on a geforce 4. Unfortunately I am only grabbing it at 10 fps for the movie, so its horridly jerky. Dave - Original Message - From: "Philip Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread David Yazel
I will see what I can do. I thought real video would be more universal, and AVI is way too big. Someone on the team said that DivX is the best, but I don't think peeople have that codec. Dave - Original Message - From: "Justin Couch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread Scott
David, Pretty damn cool. I personally would prefer to see a shorter flick, with a higher sample rate. But this certainly shows off what you guys have done. The resolution is okay, and typical of downloadable video clips of games. This is actually a pretty long video for under 4MB. Have

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread Justin Couch
David Yazel wrote: > This is in Real Video g2 format. > > www.magicosm.net/magicosm_high.rm Any chance of getting this in MPEG or AVI format? -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3

Re: [JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread Philip Wong
Absolutly amazing. What is the spec of your display card? thx! philip wong David Yazel wrote: >I am just experimenting with making a demo movie, so forgive the quality of >the frame snaps and size. But I thought you guys might like to see this. >Hopefully the downloads will not blow out our w

[JAVA3D] Magicosm demo movie

2002-04-30 Thread David Yazel
I am just experimenting with making a demo movie, so forgive the quality of the frame snaps and size. But I thought you guys might like to see this. Hopefully the downloads will not blow out our webside quota! This is in Real Video g2 format. www.magicosm.net/magicosm_high.rm If you download i

Re: [JAVA3D] Stereo problem

2002-04-30 Thread GB Liu
Hi Kelvin: Thank you for your prompt reply. I am using GeForce II MX dual head card with 32MB memory, windows 2000. The Java 3D I am using is OpenGL version. Could you please tell me how I can set the sharedstereozbuffer=true in my JBuilder file? Thank you for your valuable help! G.B. Liu >

[JAVA3D] install works.. atlast!

2002-04-30 Thread Brad Christiansen
Hi, Just thought I would let you know that the new install worked for me first time with no problems. I was one of the people with the 'no suitable vm' problem with the previous beta 1 install. Thanks for fixing this. It is great not to have to do a manual extract and copy of the j3d files. (I i

[JAVA3D] 1.3 beta 2 on XP

2002-04-30 Thread Scott
1.3 beta 2 OpenGL Install went perfectly over J3D 1.2 on my XP laptop (ATI Mobility Radeon), and I see no problems yet in my app.  (/me Breathes a sigh of relief).   1.3 beta 2 Direct3D install went perfectly, and also seems to run at very similar speeds to the OpenGL version, and so far I d

Re: [JAVA3D] Stereo problem

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi GB, We try this example program and it works fine in our video card, Have you try the switch : java -Dj3d.sharedstereozbuffer=true MyProgram I'm assuming you are using OpenGL version of Java3D (since DirectX 8 do not support stereo). What kind of hardware/graphics card are you running on

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML97 animations again

2002-04-30 Thread Justin Couch
Andreas Bauer wrote: > example, the unit stops moving and starts shooting, so another animation > must be played back. How can I do this ? > One of our modeler asked me how to export/create multiple animations per vrml > file with 3d studio max, but I know nothing about 3d studio max. Can anybod

[JAVA3D] Stereo problem

2002-04-30 Thread GB Liu
Title: Network Blitz Hi J3D Team:   Thank you so much for your great effort for getting the new release available.  After installing  J3D Beta2, I run an sample program called PureImmediateStereo through JBuilder 6.  I found the problem I described before is still there.  I am wondering wheth

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 11:00:57 +1000 >From: Carsten Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMa

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D 1.3 beta 2 does not install on Windows 2000

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
> > I tried to install the new beta release on my Windows 2000 machine. > I get the following crash. I also have a "core-dump" which is too big > to post to the group, but which I can make available on request. > Previous versions of Java 3D installed without problems. > I forgot to mention some

[JAVA3D] Java3D 1.3 beta 2 does not install on Windows 2000

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
Hi, I tried to install the new beta release on my Windows 2000 machine. I get the following crash. I also have a "core-dump" which is too big to post to the group, but which I can make available on request. Previous versions of Java 3D installed without problems. Carsten Microsoft (R) Windows

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
Hi, > > > If this is driver specific method without going through standard OpenGL/DirectX > API, there is no way for Java3D to control it. You have to do it through > the driver configuration panel. > I agree, that it very much looks like a driver problem, as Java3D is obviously not even aware o

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
> > It sounds from your discussion that you have had success running Java3D in > stereo with a GeForce card! Would you mind telling us what group of > settings/switches/configurations you use to make it work? I keep swingin' a > miss with everything I've tried. I think several of us would apprecia

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe
Hm, re-downloaded but still crashes. Filesize is 6.582.937 bytes, which should be OK. But, as said, the RT-only version and 1.2.1_04 is fine. Am I alone with that? Anybody else? - J > Could you be getting some corrupt binaries. We have changed > our installers. In 1.3 beta1, we used InstallAn

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D 1.3-Beta2 Seems to break on handling Appreance

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:54:28 -0400 >From: "Scott Y. Hong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] Java3D 1.3-Beta2 Seems to break on handling Appreance >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-priority: Normal >

[JAVA3D] Java3D 1.3-Beta2 Seems to break on handling Appreance

2002-04-30 Thread Scott Y. Hong
Hi Kelvin and Doug: I downloaded the Java3D 1.3-Beta2 and test againt the program that used to run just fine on the combinations of JDKs ( JDK1.4 JDK1.3.1) and Java3Ds (Java3D 1.2.1.xx, Java3D 1.3 Beta1, ...). However, the latest beta-2 release break in the area of "Appearance

Re: [JAVA3D] J2SDK1.4.0 & Java3D1.3-Beta2

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Raj, Can you please send your demo for us to investigate. We would like to get it fix before FCS. Thanks. - Kelvin --- Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems Inc. >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:20:04 -0600 >From: Raj Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] J2SDK1.4.0 & Java3D1.3-Bet

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:58:43 +0200 >From: Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-priority:

[JAVA3D] J2SDK1.4.0 & Java3D1.3-Beta2

2002-04-30 Thread Raj Vaidya
Hi Kelvin and Doug: Just downloaded and installed the above combo (openGL win32). The installation went off absolutely without any hitch - for the very first time in my experience. Thank you. I notice that the bug related to Text2Ds getting messed up, when the texture transform elsewhere on the

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Doug Twilleager
Could you be getting some corrupt binaries. We have changed our installers. In 1.3 beta1, we used InstallAnywhere. For 1.2.1_04 we used InstallShield. And, for 1.3 beta2, we are now using InstallShield. In fact, the 1.2.1_04 OpenGL SDK installer uses the exact same settings as 1.3 beta2 OpenG

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe
The runtime-only version installs fine: java3d-1_3-beta2-windows-i586-opengl-rt.exe > java3d-1_3-beta2-windows-i586-directx-sdk.exe shows the same, crashing > immediately. > > I cross-checked with java3d-1_3-beta1-win-opengl-sdk.exe and > java3d-1_2_1_04-win32-opengl-sdk.exe, which both in

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Justin Couch
Simeon H.K. Fitch wrote: > That's fine, but the only way we can try to nail down a consistent > configuration is if people share their experiences. Have people sent FAQ > information on this information directly to you without CC'ing the group? Yes. but. I used to have about 20 messages tha

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
> Yup. I've been deliberately not adding anything to the FAQ question. > Stereo support on the PC seems to be very inconsistent. Some report > success and others failure. I'm not really sure when all these happen > and under what conditions. I've been really waiting for everything to > consistentl

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 Upgrade problem...

2002-04-30 Thread RWGRAY
O.K., I searched and found one set of dll's in "Program Files/..." and another set in "C:\jdk1.3.1_02". Anyway, it all seems to be working now. Thanks. Bob Gray -Original Message- From: Kelvin Chung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe
java3d-1_3-beta2-windows-i586-directx-sdk.exe shows the same, crashing immediately. I cross-checked with java3d-1_3-beta1-win-opengl-sdk.exe and java3d-1_2_1_04-win32-opengl-sdk.exe, which both install without problem. Sigh. - J > Hm, @home on XP, java3d-1_3-beta2-windows-i586-opengl-sdk.exe

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Justin Couch
Simeon H.K. Fitch wrote: > It sounds from your discussion that you have had success running Java3D in > stereo with a GeForce card! Would you mind telling us what group of > settings/switches/configurations you use to make it work? I keep swingin' a > miss with everything I've tried. I think sever

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D parsing speed fixed....

2002-04-30 Thread Justin Couch
Alex Bowden wrote: > So perhaps XJ3D may make VRML97.jar redundant after all! (because it was the > file loading that was so slow as to be the basic reason to keep it in use). > Well done. Ta. I can't really take credit for it because it was an accident really.. There's a couple of small is

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
> > Another issue that I noticed on the Geforce3 as well as on the SGI systems > I tried, is that the values for the eye separation are way too high. > The nvidia controller lets me adjust this using hotkeys and only > if I set it > to minimum It sounds from your discussion that you have had s

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe
Hm, @home on XP, java3d-1_3-beta2-windows-i586-opengl-sdk.exe crashes on start of installation. I'm sure it's something with my box (although it's brand new) - just wanted to inform that there is at least one installation problem. Now d'loading the DX package @home and then reporting what I see

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
Hi, > > It's too late for Java 3D beta 2, but if it turns out that the most popular > cards can only support stereo with, say, a 16-bit Z buffer, then we may be able > to change the pixel format algorithm to accomodate that for FCS. > I'd be happy to run test programs for you if this would help.

[JAVA3D] popup window

2002-04-30 Thread Grace S
Hi when I hit a key the a widow is opened from within the context of 3d scene, but I was wondering how do I ensure that a window is only opened once i.e. if it already open then I do not want it to be opened again when the user presses the same key. Any suggestions would be appreciated. the foll

Re: [JAVA3D] New features in OrientedShape3D

2002-04-30 Thread Doug Twilleager
> >About a month ago I posted a question relating to preserving the relative >size of an object regardless of the transforms living above it: >http://swjscmail1.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0203&L=java3d-interest&P=R69 >862 > Sorry, I must have missed it. >I noticed in the release nodes of the

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 Upgrade problem...

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi, This means the J3D.dll library that JBuilder pickup is still the old v1.3 beta1 version although the class (j3dcore.jar) it pick up is the newer v1.3 beta2. I would try searching the hard disk to see where the others instance of j3d.dll (and also j3daudio.dll, j3dutils.dll) are located a

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 Upgrade problem...

2002-04-30 Thread Doug Twilleager
Perhaps it is picking up an old J3D.dll somewhere. Doug Twilleager Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems >Subject: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 Upgrade problem... >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Importan

Re: [JAVA3D] Problems running 3D demos

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:19:47 -0400 >From: Ruchika Renjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] Problems running 3D demos >X-Originating-IP: [24.184.61.236] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT >Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Ap

Re: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:16:39 +0200 >From: Herkules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] Beta2 is there >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-priority: Normal >Delivered-to:

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Carsten Friedrich
Hi, > > Another reason is that the driver may use its own method > to do stereo even though the application does not aware > of stereo. > This seems to be the case as stereo even works without the stereo preferred switch. However, the drawing for one eye is sometimes wrong. The effect is the s

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg 'Herkules' Plewe
> I am pleased to announce the release of Java 3D 1.3 Beta 2 at: > > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ > > Please download this version and test it with your applications. > We would like to have all feedback incorporated within the > next four weeks, so that we may quick

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:47:12 +1000 >From: Carsten Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows >To: Kelvin Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. >Content-transfer

[JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2 Upgrade problem...

2002-04-30 Thread RWGRAY
Was using Java 3d 1.3 Beta1. I just upgraded to Java 3d 1.3 Beta2, OpenGL version SDK and runtime. I am using JBuilder 5. When I recompiled everything and ran my application, I now get the following error: --- Exception occurred during event dispatching: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLi

[JAVA3D] Beta2 rulez!

2002-04-30 Thread Herkules
Not on the 'official' early access pages, but... http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ -- Joerg Plewe http://www.hardcode.de === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the bod

[JAVA3D] Beta2 is there

2002-04-30 Thread Herkules
Not on the 'official' early access pages, but... http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ Our app works with the OGL-version (for Win32) but sucks with the DX-version. Have fun, - J -- Joerg Plewe http://www.hardcode.de

[JAVA3D] Java 3D 1.3 Beta2

2002-04-30 Thread Doug Twilleager
I am pleased to announce the release of Java 3D 1.3 Beta 2 at: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ Please download this version and test it with your applications. We would like to have all feedback incorporated within the next four weeks, so that we may quickly move to F

Re: [JAVA3D] TextureCubeMap

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Nugent
J.D. FYI - I'm not part of the Java3D group, so I'm on the same release schedules as anyone else ! Rob Joachim Diepstraten wrote: > Hi > > Upps I take that back it's there > > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ > > EOF, > J.D. > > -- > Explore SRT with the help of Java

Re: [JAVA3D] TextureCubeMap

2002-04-30 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi Upps I take that back it's there http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/ EOF, J.D. -- Explore SRT with the help of Java3D (http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/relativity/minkowski) (http://www.antiflash.net/java3d/relativity (mirror) =

Re: [JAVA3D] TextureCubeMap

2002-04-30 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi > new J3D 1.3 beta 2 but I couldn't find one when I looked. Hmm that's cheating you're an employee from SUN that's why I can't find Beta2 at java.sun.com EOF, J.D. -- Explore SRT with the help of Java3D (http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/relativity/minkowski) (http://www.antiflash.

Re: [JAVA3D] TextureCubeMap

2002-04-30 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi Rob > Does anyone have a quick-and-dirty demo of the new TextureCubeMap > feature ? I was hoping that there would be a demo in the Yes I've got some. > new J3D 1.3 beta 2 but I couldn't find one when I looked. What new Version? Wow this comes with a surpise, starting webbrowser surfing to j

Re: [JAVA3D] background image: strange scaling

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:48:45 +0200 >From: "Schäfer, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] background image: strange scaling >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi there, > >I'm using a Background node with an image, like this > >Backgro

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D parsing speed fixed....

2002-04-30 Thread Alex Bowden
Justin So perhaps XJ3D may make VRML97.jar redundant after all! (because it was the file loading that was so slow as to be the basic reason to keep it in use). Well done. What would be the simplest way to give this a try. Is the early M5 expected soon? Alex Bowden > -Original Mes

[JAVA3D] TextureCubeMap

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Nugent
Hi All, Does anyone have a quick-and-dirty demo of the new TextureCubeMap feature ? I was hoping that there would be a demo in the new J3D 1.3 beta 2 but I couldn't find one when I looked. Thanks Rob -- Rob Nugent Sun Microsystems, Southampton, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 1489 585503 F

[JAVA3D] 1.3 beta2 is up

2002-04-30 Thread John Tonkin
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Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:53:13 +1000 >From: Carsten Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D, Shutter Glasses, MS Windows >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMa

Re: [JAVA3D] Scene Antilialising: Performance Issues

2002-04-30 Thread Kelvin Chung
>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:59:56 +0200 >From: "Schäfer, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [JAVA3D] Scene Antilialising: Performance Issues >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi there, > >does anyone know how expensive Scene Antialiasing is in J3D ? > >