Re: [JAVA3D] scene zooming with View.PARALLEL_PROJECTION

2001-12-20 Thread Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski
"Copps, Kevin D" schrieb: > I'm using View.PARALLEL_PROJECTION and I would like to implement a > transformation that would make it appear that the viewer is moving in closer > to the scene. > > Scaling the whole scene is the wrong thing to do, that makes everything > shrink around the origin. I w

[JAVA3D] Remote Rendering via VNC

2001-12-20 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi I just wanted to ask if someone is interested in this. In the past few days I hacked together a VNC-extension for Java3D to make it possible to render remote via VNC(RFB) link. For those who are not familair with VNC check http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/. The clue is it runs completly offs

Re: [JAVA3D] I Can't delete the correct Object in this Scene Graph

2001-12-20 Thread dao
Of course I had noticed  that Paul. However the problem occurs also with the remaining Shape3D1 or Shape3D2 . Since only one of the two BranchGroup BG1 or BG2 is deleted, normaly the remaining one  behavior should work properly on the corresponding Shape3D .   Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowsk

[JAVA3D] Question concerning Dot3 Texturecombiner

2001-12-20 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi I've got a question concerning the new Dot3-Texture-Combine mode. I slightly got the feeling that something is not right with it. The third combine source doesn't seem to have any effect on the final result. If I've understood it right the Dot3-Combiner works this way first it calculates the d

Re: [JAVA3D] Terrain texturing question

2001-12-20 Thread Desiree Hilbring
> > I think you might be making some wrong assumptions somewhere. > Unfortunately I am running out of time to look at this as I fly back to > Oz in a couple of hours and then will be off on holidays for a couple of > weeks. If you can't fix it by 1st week of Jan, can you fire me a > reminder email

Re: [JAVA3D] Remote Rendering via VNC

2001-12-20 Thread evolutie
I am interested!! ThanX in advance! evo - Original Message - From: "Joachim Diepstraten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: [JAVA3D] Remote Rendering via VNC > Hi > > I just wanted to ask if someone is interested in this. In t

[JAVA3D] Mouse Behaviors on linux

2001-12-20 Thread Durga.Banda
Hello All, I am using MouseRotate, MouseTranslate, MouseZoom Behaviors provided by the Java3D. These are working without any problem on windows. But when I run my application on Linux for all the three mouse button events the figure is getting translating.(Zoom and Rotation are not working). C

[JAVA3D] FFJ3.0 and Java3d

2001-12-20 Thread kenhk
How to set FFJ3.0 let it show bubble when i type about 3d object then it can list all about this java3d method???thx a lot ~ i had installed java3d pulgin and jdk1.3.1 and ffj3.0  

[JAVA3D] Can J3D be executed in Mac OS ?

2001-12-20 Thread Daniel Moscoso
Hi all !! Just a question. Is it actually possible to run JAVA3D in Mac OS ? The JRE and the Java3D RT doesn't exist for Mac, or I have not found them in JAVA page. Thanks in advanced !! Dani -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht de

Re: [JAVA3D] Mouse Behaviors on linux

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Knezevic
--- "Durga.Banda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hello All, > > I am using MouseRotate, MouseTranslate, MouseZoom > Behaviors provided by the > Java3D. These are working without any problem on > windows. > > But when I run my application on Linux for all the > three mouse button events > the fig

Re: [JAVA3D] Mouse Behaviors on linux

2001-12-20 Thread Durga.Banda
Thanks Michael,for the response. I realize that it is not the problem with MouseBehavior class. I tried demo programs and they are also not working. I checked the mouse event getting generated, it gives me "isMetaDown()" as true for all the mouse buttons I click. That means all the mouse buttons

Re: [JAVA3D] Still a transparency sorting problem in Java3D1.3Beta?

2001-12-20 Thread Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski
Kevin Rushforth schrieb: > >Can you please give a short description how depth sorting is done (what > coordinate > >is taken for comparing the depth, ...) ? > > The centroid of each geometry object is used for comparing depth. Do you only sort geometries, but not the triangles (or quads) within

Re: [JAVA3D] Mouse Behaviors on linux

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Knezevic
hi, IIRC i'm using java3d 1.2.1_1 and blackdown jdk 1.3.1. so it's all the same. sorry for not being more helpful but i'm not at my linux box at home. (still at work). perhaps you should check your mouse configuration at XFree86-4 in /etc/X11. do you really have 3 mouse buttons or are you emula

Re: [JAVA3D] getting your point across

2001-12-20 Thread P. Flavin
Greetings ... Thank you, yes, actually I understand. However ( it really isn't that simple ). You really have to know what has been going on several lists: Java3d, web3d-mpeg, web3d-h-anim, web3d-source The greater issue may be people with undisclosed conflicts of interest working i

Re: [JAVA3D] getting your point across

2001-12-20 Thread John Wright
Paul, It is that simple. Read the post you just responded to. We'd be more than happy to listen to you if you can convey useful technical knowledge. You've become embroiled in a political debate/fight and most of us couldn't care less about this. If you have technical contributions please sen

[JAVA3D] MultiScreens

2001-12-20 Thread Jack Gundrum
Hi, I have a question that hopefully Mark Hood or someone else can answer. I am using a FireGL 4 card with dual heads. Java ones detects 1 GraphicsDevice (a large 2048 x 768 screen over 2 screens). The 8 x 6 foot screens I am using are at a 45 degree alignment to each other. I would like to se

Re: [JAVA3D] MultiScreens

2001-12-20 Thread Alex Terrazas
Hi Jack-   You need to use jdk version 1.4.0-beta3 in order have java recognize your dual headed beast.   Alex -Original Message-From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack GundrumSent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:18 AMTo: [EMAI

Re: [JAVA3D] Still a transparency sorting problem in Java3D1.3Beta?

2001-12-20 Thread Kevin Rushforth
>From the documentation (javadoc for View.java): Transparency sorting policy - specifies whether and how transparent objects are sorted. Sorting multiple transparent objects is necessary to avoid artifacts caused by overlapping transparent objects. There are two t

Re: [JAVA3D] MultiScreens

2001-12-20 Thread Jack Gundrum
Alex, Which card did this work with? At 09:21 AM 12/20/2001 -0600, you wrote: Hi Jack-   You need to use jdk version 1.4.0-beta3 in order have java recognize your dual headed beast.   Alex -Original Message- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf O

Re: [JAVA3D] Can J3D be executed in Mac OS ?

2001-12-20 Thread Pierce, Gregory (TBS)
Title: RE: [JAVA3D] Can J3D be executed in Mac OS ? Hi Daniel, Java3D for Mac OSX (don't know if regular Mac OS will get a runtime since I don't believe it supports the later JDKs) is apparently being worked on, but there isn't a lot know about when it will be available. > -Original Mes

Re: [JAVA3D] Can J3D be executed in Mac OS ?

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Schulman
Sun and Apple are discussing an agreement. Right now it doesnt work. Some native work has to be done. > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on sdbo1001/Eschborn/DeuBaInt/DeuBa(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 12/20/2001 01:00:36 PM > Date:

Re: [JAVA3D] Still a transparency sorting problem in Java3D1.3Beta?

2001-12-20 Thread RWGRAY
Kevin, Do you, or anyone, have an example of "... the sphere to be broken up into multiple geometries so the individual triangles (or patches) could be sorted." ? You then have one geometry object for each triangle of the sphere? Together with an Appearance object (which I assume would be share

Re: [JAVA3D] Can J3D be executed in Mac OS ?

2001-12-20 Thread John Richardson
Hello Dani and other Mac users, There is always VRML (and X3D). Java3D and VRML are complementary. You can do a lot more simulation with Java3D than VRML but for flythroughs and such, VRML is acceptable. The Macintosh OpenVRML viewer is being upgraded in several ways. If you want an upgraded vie

Re: [JAVA3D] MultiScreens

2001-12-20 Thread Alex Terrazas
Jack-   We have the expensive Wildcat II ... -Original Message-From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack GundrumSent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:04 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] MultiScreensAlex,Which card did thi

Re: [JAVA3D] obj coordinates

2001-12-20 Thread thorsten topol
Thank you very much David, it seems to work now. I can get my obj coords with: javax.media.j3d.BoundingSphere bSphere = new BoundingSphere( shape3d.getBounds()); Point3d position2 = new Point3d(); bSphere.getCenter(position2); Point3f position = new Point3f(position2); I can then place my lab

[JAVA3D] a general pickSelect class

2001-12-20 Thread ala
Hello all! I'm trying to develop a general (don't know why this class does not exists yet) to obtain the 3d object being picked in a mouse click. Name it PickSelectBehavior. First, there is a bug in the javadoc : “ public abstract class PickMouseBehavior extends Behavior Base class that allow

Re: [JAVA3D] Please help ! rotate the canvas 3D (bis)

2001-12-20 Thread Enrique Dumas
Well, I want to rotate the canvas because an other program must retrieve my view at 90 degrees : I have no possibility to change this system, so the only thing I can do is to rotating the canvas 3d I agree to rotate my view, but the problem is that I move the camera and some objetcs in my scene s

Re: [JAVA3D] Fullscreen

2001-12-20 Thread Raúl
Im sorry because I thought that Fullscreen mode was part of Java 3D. Sorry for the off topic. Thank you, Kevin, for the information about differences betwen DirectX and OpenGL and for the links. - Original Message - From: "Kevin J. Duling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: [JAVA3D] Question concerning Dot3 Texturecombiner

2001-12-20 Thread Charmaine Lee
Hi Joachim, The new Dot3 combine mode only takes two color sources. If you refer to the javadoc for TextureAttributes.java COMBINE_DOT3 : C' = 4 * ((C0_r - 0.5) * (C1_r - 0.5) + (C0_g - 0.5) * (C1_g - 0.5) + (C0_b - 0.5) * (C1_b - 0.5)) where C0 and C1 are the two color

[JAVA3D] Avoiding memory allocation and garbage collection

2001-12-20 Thread Kasparian, Raffi J.
Hi all, In the interests of speeding up my J3D applications, I'm considering the pros and cons of the following approach to avoiding memory allocations and garbage collections. I have created a class called MemoryPool that handles requests for Transform3Ds (for instance) by returning from a pool

Re: [JAVA3D] Fullscreen

2001-12-20 Thread Pierce, Gregory (TBS)
Title: RE: [JAVA3D] Fullscreen I'm searching for information on the same thing. What *should* be possible is using the JDK stuff to change the resolution of the screen and then using Java3D to render assets to the screen at that resolution. Currently the only thing you can really do (in OpenGL

[JAVA3D] Applet Flickers when Using Java 3D

2001-12-20 Thread Mauricio Vives
Hey folks,   I have observed a strange problem using Java 3D on laptops, and I was wondering if anyone has seen a similar problem.   Our product is a Java applet which uses a Java 3D canvas (a 3D view) along with some Swing-based user interface components (e.g. buttons).  On laptops using the AT

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet Flickers when Using Java 3D

2001-12-20 Thread Pierce, Gregory (TBS)
Your results are better than mine. I tried viewing some 1000 polygon Milkshape3d models on a P3/800 with ATI Rage Mobility 128 the application rendered so slow it would probably have been faster to draw it myself. I'm using a Dell I4000 with 512MB of Ram. After this pitiful display I promptly un

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet Flickers when Using Java 3D

2001-12-20 Thread Fred Klingener
Mauricio, This happens on my antique desktop too. It's so annoying that I have to exit the browser and restart. Sometimes that clears the problem, sometimes I reboot. Because the Windows 2000 wallpaper and desktop seem to be involved, I suppose that it's some strange system thread priority thi

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet Flickers when Using Java 3D

2001-12-20 Thread Mauricio Vives
Title: RE: [JAVA3D] Applet Flickers when Using Java 3D Fred, What graphics card are you using?  And are you saying that more than just the application / applet is flickering? (your desktop is flickering?)  On my end, only the applet flickers: the UI and the canvas. And yes, it certainly doe

Re: [JAVA3D] Mouse Behaviors on linux

2001-12-20 Thread John Nelson
I've experienced the same thing... and I used two diffferent styles of Mouse Behaviors with the same results... except for me I think it was Zoom that didn't work, and the other two did. Weird. -- John On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Durga.Banda wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:28:34 +0530 > From: Dur

Re: [JAVA3D] Avoiding memory allocation and garbage collection

2001-12-20 Thread R Vegan
Hi Raffi: I have been very much intending to pose this question to this Forum, but was a wee hesitant since I thought this could be considered a little OT. I do believe that object pooling or some such memory management is a necessity with Java/Java3D graphics, though I am aware that there is a d

Re: [JAVA3D] a general pickSelect class

2001-12-20 Thread R Vegan
Yes, PickDragBehavior class doesn't exist. Look for a class named PickHighlightBehavior in the Java3D demo bundle - perhaps this is what you're looking for. Even otherwise, this class will be a useful starting point for specializing to your app. Raj Vaidya >On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:00:51 GMT, al

Re: [JAVA3D] Avoiding memory allocation and garbage collection

2001-12-20 Thread Fred Klingener
Raffi, When I'm developing new procedures, I'm pretty lavish with the object creation, then once it's working, I go back over it to eliminate the news. All of the void returns in Java 3D help here, even though they practically encrypt my source code. When I was working with complex data, I wrot