hi Carl,
Could you please tell me something more about "UIs in Java 3D".??
That'll be of great help..
Thanks a lot!!
Ajit
Carl Smotricz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 04:48 04.07.00 +0200, you wrote:
>Could anyone suggest me a good book explaining Java3d programming?
I wish! Here are the references I know of, and partly use:
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/collateral/
has a tutorial (near the top, 8 chapters of .PDF) that I found quite
helpful.
http://www.sdsc.edu/~nadeau/Courses/Siggraph99/
is a downloadable set of about 800 lecture slides about Java 3D
programming.
Very understandable, though a bit brief on detail. If I remember
correctly, he
doesn't talk about the com.sun.util stuff, so he does everything the
hard way.
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDevelopers/j3dguide/j3dTOC.doc
.html
is the Java 3D API specification. It's unfortunately mostly just a
catalog of stuff.
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/collateral/
(again) has some books near the bottom. From the looks of it, I'd say
that
"Java 3D Programming" by Daniel Selman is what we both need. Here's
Manning Books' current info on it:
November 2000, Softbound, 275 pages
ISBN 188477797X
Our price: $39.95
You can order this book from your
bookstore
by using the ISBN and title listed above.
It says November, so I guess the author is still bashing away at it.
Here's the Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Should I Use Java 3D?
3. Building a 3D User Interface
4. Deploying J3D Applications and Applets
5. Defining a Scene Graph Heirarchy
6. Defining the Universe
7. Setting and Changing View Direction
Parameters
8. Generating Geometry
9. Setting Geometry Appearances
10. Manipulating Geometry
11. Using Behaviors
12. Sensor Input Devices
13. J3D System Architecture
14. Programming Resources
They also mention "3D User Interfaces with Java 3D", available in ebook
form
(17 MB of .PDF) from Manning Books for less than $14. I decided this
couldn't
hurt and bought it. The process was easy and painless, but the book
addresses
some other needs than mine and probably yours. I can relate details
about if
if someone cares.
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If anyone has any other references they can recommend, I would be
interested to hear about them.
-Carl-
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