[JAVA3D] Geometry performance on D3D9 hardware

Under Direct3D9 hardware, what are the relative performance of plain triangle strip meshes against indexed ones? (Even if only qualitatively.) Are Java3D taking advantage (even indirectly through D3D) of vertex caches? Does Java 3D exploit the Nvidia OpenGL 1.4 shader extensions? Are there figures/

[JAVA3D] What do you want/need from Java3D?

Hi Justin I have been researching vessel/sea simulation since the previous millennium, before Java 3d. We (Naval Architecture Dep. of IST Lisbon), are currently developing a j3d prototypical tool for the VRSHIPS-ROPAX2000 European project. And since December (shame on me) I have an alpha view-fr