[JAVA3D] Nice and Easy problem (hopefully)

2003-10-22 Thread Ben Logan
Hi I havent used geometry in J3D for a few months and I can't work out why my polygons are rendering in a weird fashion... Have half the polygon (a triangle) is rendering in red fine, the other half doesn't appear! Code; Point3f[] pts = new Point3f[4]; pts[0] = gridPoints[from]; pts[1] =

[JAVA3D] Is there a way to easily set 'look-at' type functionality.

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Bartlett
Title: Message I'm building a simple visualisation tool, and I'm looking to have the ability to move the user around the scene. Currently I'm moving the viewing platform, but it seems I need to also change the orientation of the platform (camera) to keep it pointing at the middle of my scene

Re: [JAVA3D] Is there a way to easily set 'look-at' type functionality.

2003-10-22 Thread Justin Couch
Chris Bartlett wrote: Other 3D systems I have used in the past had the ability to 'point' the camera at a location so that the camera oriented itself automatically as it was moved. Is there anything like this or do I have to work out the orientation as well as the position of the Viewing platform?

Re: [JAVA3D] Enabling an Interpreter

2003-10-22 Thread Chien Yang
Paul, Without a test program, my guess is that you are seeing a lagging effect when the state change on Behavior to the effect being taken in the rendering. setEnable(), like most scenegraph update methods, sends a message to the J3D's message queue, and it will be process by the BehaviorStruct

Re: [JAVA3D] Nice and Easy problem (hopefully)

2003-10-22 Thread Mona Wong-Barnum
Perhaps a cutting plane problem? Check your front/back cutting planes. Mona == Mona Wong-Barnum National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research University of California, San Diego http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/ "Circumstances do