I have a problem which is new for J3D version 1.3.x. Here it is impossible to get smooth textures when they have to be scaled due to the distance of the viewer. To make that what should happen more clear:
When a texture is displayed somewhere in a scene relativley far away it happens that it isn't possible to map one pixel of the texture exactly to one pixel of my display (because objects become smaller with the distance). So in J3D 1.2.x and with the NICEST-Option for the method Texture.setMagFilter() set, there pixels have been put together. This smooth scaling used all pixels of the texture which belonged to one display pixel to calculate an average color value out of them for the display. Thats nearly the same like it is done in graphics programs when you scale images using an interpolation algorithm. So for an example the average color of nine texture pixels has been used for the displayed pixel in 1.2.x, the new version seems to use in every case only one of these nine pixels (the one which is closest to the target pixel). That leads to some strange kind of flickering with rough texture and movements.
Something similar happened to closer textures, here one pixel of the texture had to belong to more pixels of the display. So 1.2 interpolated the values between this pixel and its neighbors to display these intermediate values. The result was an sometimes a little bit unsharp but more realistic texture.
The funny thing is, setMagFilter()/setMinFilter() work very well with primitive objects in 1.3 too - like I know it from the old version.
I can't imagine that this functionality was removed (but not for Primitives), in my opinion that would be a great disadvantage.
Kind regards
Michael
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