Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book

2000-07-28 Thread Carl Smotricz
At 14:28 28.07.00 -0700, you wrote: > I've collected quite a few bookmarks and you can find them at >http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/~mona/personal/bookmark/programming.html. Scroll >down to >the Java 3D section. MANY thanks, Mona! :) ==

Re: [JAVA3D] How to determine correct scale factor

2000-07-28 Thread Snavely, John A
I didn't set the initial size of the bounding sphere. The bounds are computed automatically. Here's some sample code: //centering the object... Point3d c = new Point3d(); sceneBounds.getCenter(c); // sceneBounds is my branchgroup that

Re: [JAVA3D] How to determine correct scale factor

2000-07-28 Thread Bruno Sousa Caiado
Hello John, Just two questions: What do you mean by: "I used the bounding sphere center to recenter the assembly".?? And how did you set the initial size of the bounding sphere? Thank you. Bruno - Original Message - From: Snavely, John A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book

2000-07-28 Thread Mona Wong
> >Could anyone suggest me a good book explaining Java3d programming? > If anyone has any other references they can recommend, I would be > interested to hear about them. I've collected quite a few bookmarks and you can find them at http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/~mona/personal/bookmark/progr

Re: [JAVA3D] Triangle not rendering

2000-07-28 Thread Bobby Martin
To quickly test to see if it is the normals, try altering the appearance for your pyramid like this: Appearance ap = ... PolygonAttributes pa = new PolygonAttributes(); pa.setCullFace(PolygonAttributes.CULL_NONE); ap.setPolygonAttributes(pa); If the polygon now sh

[JAVA3D] Is it possible to associate a property from one node to another

2000-07-28 Thread cgerrard
Hi, I've just started working in Java3D and I wonder if anyone can answer any of these questions. Firstly can you link a property from one node to another, for example it would be nice to set a relationship between one transform group and another so if the transform changes the second one will b

Re: [JAVA3D] Triangle not rendering

2000-07-28 Thread Carl Smotricz
At 12:59 28.07.00 -0500, you wrote: >I created a Shape3D in the form of a pyramid specifying my own geometry. I am >using TriangleStripArray and using 6 triangles to render the whole pyramid (4 >faces and 2 for the bottom). However, one of the bottom triangles is not >rendering properly. I checked

Re: [JAVA3D] [Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book]

2000-07-28 Thread Carl Smotricz
At 12:32 28.07.00 -0500, you wrote: >hi Carl, >Could you please tell me something more about "UIs in Java 3D".?? >That'll be of great help.. > >Thanks a lot!! > >Ajit OK, this guy is more into the philosophical aspects of a 3D GUI than the technical stuff. Most of his discussion is based on the

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML loader

2000-07-28 Thread Rick Goldberg
Alessandro VRML Lights, Fog, Background nodes have state dependencies that require a vrml browser object to manipulate. So, unless you use x3d as a player ( as opposed to a geometry viewer ) there could be missing nodes. As a loader the vrml/x3d package will make available references to lights a

Re: [JAVA3D] Triangle not rendering

2000-07-28 Thread Pondrom, Pierre L
> Ajit It sounds like it could be the Normals. They can be tricky. Check them next. pierre, > -- > From: Ajit Dharmik[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: Discussion list for Java 3D API > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PR

Re: [JAVA3D] Tranparency Bug - Fixed in 1.2.1?

2000-07-28 Thread Charmaine Lee
Markus: I replied too quickly. Java3D **does not** do sorting and drawing of transparent objects from back to front. The bug I referred to was different. -Uma Java3D Team > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.gmx.de > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:27:35 +0200 > From: Carl Sm

Re: [JAVA3D] PointSound locked at origin in java3d 1.2

2000-07-28 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Yep, I do believe they are stuck. I hit this a few weeks back. I believe there is a bug report opened for this. Lee -Original Message- From: Brian Eppert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D] PointSound locked at origin

[JAVA3D] Triangle not rendering

2000-07-28 Thread Ajit Dharmik
hi all!! I created a Shape3D in the form of a pyramid specifying my own geometry. I am using TriangleStripArray and using 6 triangles to render the whole pyramid (4 faces and 2 for the bottom). However, one of the bottom triangles is not rendering properly. I checked and rechecked all co-ordinate

Re: [JAVA3D] [Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book]

2000-07-28 Thread B.S.Prabhu
Hi Ajit,   Pl. refer to this ebook by Jon B - "3D User Interfaces with Java 3D" at www.manning.com/barrilleaux   Prabhu - Original Message - From: Ajit Dharmik To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] [Re: [JAVA3D] A jav

Re: [JAVA3D] Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Bobby Martin
From: Niklas Mehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hi ! > >Is > > there something else I need to do so that I can > > perform rotations about axes that do not run through > > the origin? > >From the docs : > >The Java 3D model for 4 X 4 transformations is: > >[ m00 m01 m02 m03 ] [ x ] [ x'

Re: [JAVA3D] [Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book]

2000-07-28 Thread Ajit Dharmik
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 ref

[JAVA3D] PointSound locked at origin in java3d 1.2

2000-07-28 Thread Brian Eppert
PointSounds work well in 1.1.3 but I can't get those bastards to drag themselves away from (0,0,0) in 1.2. Anyone have a similar problem? Vitals: Windows2k, NeoMagic 256 Video/Sound. __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http:/

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML loader

2000-07-28 Thread Carl Smotricz
At 04:52 04.07.00 +0200, you wrote: >I've used x3d package to import a VRML world. >The scene was loaded successfully, all but lights, sky and ground. >What I've understood is ground and sky are not supported in Java3D, but >i'd like to know if neither lights are. Lights are supported in Java 3D,

Re: [JAVA3D] A java3D book

2000-07-28 Thread Carl Smotricz
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 helpf

Re: [JAVA3D] Bad Magic Number error.. Help

2000-07-28 Thread Carlos Proal
i agree with Carl, but i dont think thats the problem, i had a similar problem with ResourceFiles and looking for the solution i found that some web servers (specially old ones) had a problem with socket security and send a wrong message/file, so at present i use Apache 1.3.12 and Netscape Enterpr

Re: [JAVA3D] -- WOEFULLY OFF TOPIC --Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Andrew R. Thomas-Cramer
Originally, my response noted that the examples might be culture-centric, but I took that out. My response, clearly, had the same failing. I'd meant to reply as a personal email, but forgot -- again -- that the sender was the mailing list. -Original Message- From: Rob Nugent <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [JAVA3D] Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Desiree Hilbring
I thought about that this morning, in Europe front loading washing machines are more common than top loading. That is vice versa in North Americ, as far as I know :) Desiree oo | Desiree Hilbring Institut fuer Photogram

Re: [JAVA3D] -- WOEFULLY OFF TOPIC --Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Rob Nugent
In my experience US washing machines tend to be more often top-loaders, while here in the UK front loaders are more popular R Andrew R. Thomas-Cramer wrote: > ROTFL! > Except, perhaps did you mean dryers? Front-loading washers are less common > than top-loading. > Excellent examples! >

Re: [JAVA3D] Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Andrew R. Thomas-Cramer
ROTFL! Except, perhaps did you mean dryers? Front-loading washers are less common than top-loading. Excellent examples! -Original Message- From: Carl Smotricz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 27, 2000 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D]

Re: [JAVA3D] Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Fred Klingener
- Original Message - From: "Cromwell Enage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm also trying to perform rotations about any > axis, and when I tried that method I found that it > worked only on axes that ran through the origin. Is > there something else I need to do so

[JAVA3D] VRML loader

2000-07-28 Thread Alessandro Pironi
I've used x3d package to import a VRML world. The scene was loaded successfully, all but lights, sky and ground. What I've understood is ground and sky are not supported in Java3D, but i'd like to know if neither lights are. Thank you, Alessandro. =

[JAVA3D] A java3D book

2000-07-28 Thread Alessandro Pironi
Could anyone suggest me a good book explaining Java3d programming? Thank you, Alessandro. === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For gen

[JAVA3D] Hardware Acceleartion

2000-07-28 Thread Desiree Hilbring
Hi everybody, I got a new Pc Athlon with 800MHz and 256MB and a Geforce 256 Elsa Erazor X and Windows NT 4.0, I am experiencing a really improvmente in performance, but how can I detect, if the hardware acceleration is enabled? Or is the increase in the performance due to the better processor? My

Re: [JAVA3D] Tranparency Bug - Fixed in 1.2.1?

2000-07-28 Thread Malcolm Binstead
>I'm no guru or anything, but have you considered using OrderedGroups as a >workaround while Sun works on the bug? I've used this as a work around and i't fine - but it appears to have a memory leak problem of its own which I believed will be resolved in the beta. Malc. =

Re: [JAVA3D] Representing an axis with Transform3D

2000-07-28 Thread Niklas Mehner
Hi ! >Is > there something else I need to do so that I can > perform rotations about axes that do not run through > the origin? >From the docs : The Java 3D model for 4 X 4 transformations is: [ m00 m01 m02 m03 ] [ x ] [ x' ] [ m10 m11 m12 m13 ] . [ y ] = [ y' ] [ m20 m21