[JAVA3D] Strange Effect with Transparency and modify Scenegraph

2002-10-22 Thread Andreas Jerke
Hi, I have a SceneGraph with objects positioning before others having transparency set to 0.5 . When I change the Scenegraph (Moving objects, changing Switch etc.) the transparency does not work anymore. Some objects BEHIND other transparent objects are shown, others NOT. Any suggestions ? Best

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange Effect with Transparency and modify Scenegraph

2002-10-22 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Andreas Jerke wrote: When I change the Scenegraph (Moving objects, changing Switch etc.) the transparency does not work anymore. Some objects BEHIND other transparent objects are shown, others NOT. Have you set View.setTransparencySortingPolicy(TRANSPARENCY_SORT_GEOMETRY) ? If not, try it and

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange Effect with Transparency and modify Scenegraph

2002-10-22 Thread Jeremy Booth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jerke wrote: | Hi, | | I have a SceneGraph with objects positioning before others having | transparency set to 0.5 . | | When I change the Scenegraph (Moving objects, changing Switch etc.) the | transparency does not work anymore. Some objects

[JAVA3D] Is this a bug in Java3D?

2002-10-22 Thread Nikolai V. Chr.
I have a scenegraph. Somewhere in it I have a transformgroup which is live. Is has a child which is a branchgroup and is NOT live (did a isLive() and a getParent().isLive() to check). I was under the impression that anything added to a live node will become live itself. Someone please explain thi

[JAVA3D] help needed about 'picking'

2002-10-22 Thread A. Murat Tanyer
Hi all,   I created my scene which contains many Shape3D objects. I used VirtualUniverse to create this.   Now I want to pick the shapes in this scene by mouse clicks and by by mouse windows (selecting the objects which fall into a window created by a mouse dragging).   However I need some ex

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2002-10-22 Thread hterrolle
Hi, Bonjour,   Il est possible que ma machine est été infecté par "BugBear". Aux cas ou vous ayez recu un Mail en provenence de "Carinne Schockaert" avec un fichier J2eedocp.exe ou J2eedocp.pdf.exe. Je vous recommande de ne pas l'ouvrir et de la deleter. Se Mail a apparanment été envoyer se m

[JAVA3D] Geometry-by-reference drawbacks

2002-10-22 Thread Zak Nixon
I am implementing a structure that employs both dynamically changing objects and static objects. I have built my dynamic objects with by-reference techniques. Now that I am creating my static objects, should I continue with the by-reference way of creating my geometry? Is there any advantage

Re: [JAVA3D] help needed about 'picking'

2002-10-22 Thread A. Murat Tanyer
Hi,   I saw the 'PickTest' example under the demo directory. It is a similar example to 'TickTockPicking'.   However, as far as I understand those examples passes the positions of the shapes to the Picking utility (or something similar to this). I don't know the places of the objects in my sc

Re: [JAVA3D] help needed about 'picking'

2002-10-22 Thread Mr H. Morgan
Hi Ali, I have just done this. I used the code from this mail - http://swjscmail1.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0207&L=java3d-interest&P=R47218 I have just seen that there is a PickTest example included in Java 3D, see section "G.3.21 PickTest" on - http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/f

[JAVA3D] How to add 3D API to java forte software

2002-10-22 Thread philip robinson
Does anyone know how to change the path for Forte so it can use the 3D API specification. Cheers PhilGet a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs.

Re: [JAVA3D] How to add 3D API to java forte software

2002-10-22 Thread Kevin J. Duling
As long as you have Java3D installed into the same JVM that Forte is using, you don't have to do anything for your code to compile.   If you want to enable the intellesense-like function name completion, you need to temporarily mount the jars into your project.  Those are located in JAVA_HOM

[JAVA3D] Error setting picking capability when creating 2 Canvas3D objects

2002-10-22 Thread Jason Cheatham
Hello all, I have two JPanels, and for each one a scenegraph gets created and a Canvas3D is added. When the first JPanel is created, it loads in a number of vrml files and sets picking capabilities for them, (I'm using the vrml97.jar code). After it is finished, the second JPanel gets created

Re: [JAVA3D] help needed about 'picking'

2002-10-22 Thread White Morph
See my post a little while ago. But I didn't find an easy way to do the intersection between a pyramid and the arbitrary scenegraph model yet. white http://swjscmail1.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210&L=java3d-interest&D=1&P=4564 >Hi all, > >I created my scene which contains many Shape3D object

Re: [JAVA3D] TriangleStripArray and by-reference

2002-10-22 Thread Kelvin Chung
White Morph wrote: Hi Kelvin, Thank you for your message. You proved my guess. Initially, I just thought all Shape3D objects using the same vertices array, so there is only one copy of vertex data in memory, if I change one vertex coordinates in one shape, other Shape3D objects sharing this vert

Re: [JAVA3D] spline geometric primitves

2002-10-22 Thread Edward Scholl
Has anyone made a class for splines publicly available? -Ed On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:27:11 +1000, Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pam Colwell wrote: >> >> Is anyone aware of support for splines in j3d ? Or a 3rd party toolkit? > >There is none that I'm aware of at the moment. One of my h

Re: [JAVA3D] spline geometric primitves

2002-10-22 Thread Justin Couch
Edward Scholl wrote: Has anyone made a class for splines publicly available? Yup. I committed a bunch of stuff to the j3d.org repository about 3 weeks ago. Bezier and NURBS surfaces and splines. No trimming support and only flat texture mapping though. It might be enough to get you going howev

[JAVA3D] Editing the canvas

2002-10-22 Thread Chad Zalkin
Hi all, I am attempting to do some image editing on my canvas. Specifically I want to directly edit the pixels of the canvas. Is there any way to get a raster (for example) of the current frame, edit the data, and pass it back to be displayed? If possible, is this an expensive operation? I am

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2002-10-22 Thread Peter Szinek
Hello all, Sorry for the lame question but i am a newbie and though i had RTFM (in fact, just the faq, this mailing list archive was unavaliable at the j3d page), i did not find this one: Suppose i have constructed the scene graph and compiled the root object. Now, i want to find an easy way to h