Re: [JAVA3D] ACCESSControlException error in VRML Loading!

2001-03-21 Thread Leyland Needham
> The VRML Loader is not permitted to load files from my harddrive (maybe from the > client's computer also) I haven't tested it on the internet.Only through my > computer!) That is a good question, that I will have to cross when I get there... Are you using Strings or URLs when passing the file

Re: [JAVA3D] KeyNavigatorBehavior?

2001-03-21 Thread Leyland Needham
Kyle Wayne Kelly wrote: > Shouldn't you or those flags? Strangly enough, it does not work like a flag, I dont think its a bug though because even the function name also supports that idea, as its named "setCapability(int bit)" as oposed to calling it something like "setCapabilities(int bit)". Le

[JAVA3D] I don't really want to hype this question too much.

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
In my class, we were talking about how Java lacks an enumeration type.  We got some extra credit for writing one, so here it is.  This code is not cosmically significant, but a good enumeration type would significantly enhance the Java language.   /**  * Kyle Wayne Kelly  * Computer Science

[JAVA3D] Non graphics question

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
How can I offer code for the Java Api.  I wrote an Enumeration package that Java needs.   /**  * Kyle Wayne Kelly  * Computer Science Student  * University of New Orleans  * 504-391-3985  * http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly  * Glory to God!  */

Re: [JAVA3D] KeyNavigatorBehavior?

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
Shouldn't you or those flags? /** * Kyle Wayne Kelly * Computer Science Student * University of New Orleans * 504-391-3985 * http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly * Glory to God! */ - Original Message - From: "Leyland Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednes

[JAVA3D] Cameras/Views, parenting...

2001-03-21 Thread Leyland Needham
When I was developing my own scenegraph/engine, I could have any number of cameras in my hierarchy, a view would render from one of those camera references. Having the cameras in the transformation hierarchy would allow the camera to be the child of an geometry. What I would like to know is, how

[JAVA3D] ACCESSControlException error in VRML Loading!

2001-03-21 Thread Jonathan Albert C Vallar
Hi! It's me again the thing about the VRML97 Loader is good news!Thanks to them that many are able to create VRML worlds in java3D, like I am very grateful!! Good day! I now have problem when about running my program as an applet... The VRML Loader is not permitted to load files from my ha

Re: [JAVA3D] KeyNavigatorBehavior?

2001-03-21 Thread Leyland Needham
My mistake I should have done... objNav.setCapability(TransformGroup.ALLOW_TRANSFORM_READ); objNav.setCapability(TransformGroup.ALLOW_TRANSFORM_WRITE); For some reason I thought it was a flag. Leyland Needham === To unsubs

[JAVA3D] KeyNavigatorBehavior?

2001-03-21 Thread Leyland Needham
First off, I'd like to know if KeyNavigatorBehavior works on other TransformGroups other then the ViewPlatforms? Im trying to use KeyNavigatorBehavior to navigate an object instead of the view, and I am doing this... TransformGroup objNav = new TransformGroup(); KeyNavigatorBehavior keyNavBeh =

Re: [JAVA3D] Java and 3D

2001-03-21 Thread Justin Couch
"Gold, Rich " wrote: > > But which one? Asking question to the wrong list aren't we? We might be a little biased here :) > There is Java3D, which I am starting to learn, but it seems way overly complex and >even a little inflexible. Depends on what you classify as Inflexible. Your odd output d

Re: [JAVA3D] Signed intensity detail textures

2001-03-21 Thread David
I was able to solve this problem a different way. I overloaded the material colors to 1.2, and applied a luminosity texture whose average intensity is 0.8. and whose shadows and highlights cancel each other on average. Then multitexture the bump map on the surface. The average 0.8 cancels the 1

Re: [JAVA3D] End of Java3D ?

2001-03-21 Thread David
Weird... I never got the original message. I just see 3 responses in my e-mail and only 3 in the archives on the sun website. Dave Yazel - Original Message - From: Kyle Wayne Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D]

Re: [JAVA3D] Java and 3D

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
I have not written any Java 3D. I am just reading the online Java 3D book. Could you enumerate some of the inflexibilities? /** * Kyle Wayne Kelly * Computer Science Student * University of New Orleans * 504-391-3985 * http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly * Glory to God! */ - Original

[JAVA3D] Java and 3D

2001-03-21 Thread Gold, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Every so often I need to do a 3D project. These usually require unusual input and output devices, projectors, etc. You know - arty stuff. In the past I have used VRML with JavaScript and Alice with Python. Recently I have been doing a lot of programming with Java2D so I thought I would stay wit

Re: [JAVA3D] making mouse rotation about the centroid

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
You could translate to the origin, rotate and translate back to the original position. Kyle Wayne Kelly Computer Science Student University of New Orleans 504-391-3985 http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly Glory to God! - Original Message - From: "Mona Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [JAVA3D] End of Java3D ?

2001-03-21 Thread Kyle Wayne Kelly
IMHO this e-mail is a little extreme. Kyle Wayne Kelly Computer Science Student University of New Orleans 504-391-3985 http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly Glory to God! - Original Message - From: "Bill Hibbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:55 PM

Re: [JAVA3D] End of Java3D ?

2001-03-21 Thread Bill Hibbard
> Why would the industry would switch to C# when Java is now the language of > choice, and that technologies usch as java3D are becoming interesting? > > I think Java has the support of the Industry. What do you guys think? > Or why would you guys develop in java3D if you didn&t believe in it? Th

Re: [JAVA3D] End of Java3D ?

2001-03-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Durrios
Why would the industry would switch to C# when Java is now the language of choice, and that technologies usch as java3D are becoming interesting? I think Java has the support of the Industry. What do you guys think? Or why would you guys develop in java3D if you didn&t believe in it? Thx for enl

[JAVA3D] making mouse rotation about the centroid

2001-03-21 Thread Mona Wong
Hi: When I use the MouseRotate class, the rotation is not about the centroid (center of mass). How can I get it to rotate about the centroid? Do I need to setup my own transformChanged() method? All help is appreciated. Sincerely, Mona ===

Re: [JAVA3D] 3D User Interfaces with JAVA3D - Canvas3d problem

2001-03-21 Thread Nathan Bower
Mistake, reconfigured below should be PRECONFIGURED! > After further investigation I have discovered that there seems to be no way > to fix this as the AppDisplay class provided and used by the code in the > book does not have a constructor that can be called with a Canvas3D, which > can of cours

[JAVA3D] 3D User Interfaces with JAVA3D - Canvas3d problem

2001-03-21 Thread Nathan Bower
Hello, I'm reading the 3D User Interfaces with JAVA3D, and have been experimenting with the CameraNavigating example. I have noticed that every single example in this book constructs Canvases without first getting the GraphicsConfiguration of the local machine. After further investigation I hav

Re: [JAVA3D] AxisAngle.set(Matrix3d) incorrect for rotation of PI

2001-03-21 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Peter, Bug 4428412 is submit for this. You can workaround this by setting the rotation matrix to Quat4f first and then use the result to set AxisAngle4f as shown: import javax.vecmath.*; public class TestAxisAngle { public static void main(String []args) { Matrix3d rotation = new

Re: [JAVA3D] Installer problem

2001-03-21 Thread Paul Pantera
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:19:45 + > From: Colin Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Installer problem > > Hi, > > I have a problem running with Install Anywhere launching. It comes back > with a InvocationTargetException. I have jdk1.3.0_02 installed and am > trying to install java3d-1_2_1

Re: [JAVA3D] Installing Java3D intoTogetherJ 4.1

2001-03-21 Thread Paul Pantera
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:29:42 - > From: Raymond Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [JAVA3D] Installing Java3D intoTogetherJ 4.1 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all, > I am just doing my final year project using Java3D and TogetherJ 4.1, which > is located at Unversity. I need to do a presen

Re: [JAVA3D] Changing attributes from a loaded OBJ / 3DS model

2001-03-21 Thread Paul Pantera
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:37:04 +0100 > From: Daniel Moscoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [JAVA3D] Changing attributes from a loaded OBJ / 3DS model > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all !! > > I'm working with 3DS and OBJ models, and I want to know if exists a > quick way to change the attribute

[JAVA3D] Beginner questions

2001-03-21 Thread John Richardson
Hello, I have 3 slabs arranged as a floor and 2 walls (z-y plane and x-y plane) arranged as sort of a visual frame for a coordinate system. The purpose would be to populate the "open faced room" with a few spheres, whatever,... I get the transform group of the viewing platform. Then I set the tr

[JAVA3D] Correction on BOF at Siggraph

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Schulman
Change that to the Garden East Room at the Wilshire Grand. - Begin Forwarded Message - X-Unix-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 21 10:50:20 2001 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:36:58 -0800 From: Michael Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [JAVA3D] BOF at Siggraph To: [EMAIL P

[JAVA3D] drawing lines at certain angles

2001-03-21 Thread Paula Keohan
Hi all,   This problem might be more suitable on a Java 2D discussion list but it's driving me crazy so I'd be grateful for any help. I'm trying to draw a simple star like grid on a panel. I'm trying to draw lines at 30, 60, 90, 120, etc. degrees from a point that I pick with the mouse. I'm

[JAVA3D] BOF at Siggraph

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Schulman
All - Mark your calendars. There will be a Java 3D BOF meeting at Siggraph 2001. Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Wilshire Grand Hotel - Rossmore Room See you there. --- Michael A. Schulman Java 3D / JAI Product Line Manager SUN Microsystems

[JAVA3D] BLUEJ and Java3D

2001-03-21 Thread Ricardo Nakamura
Hello, I am currently working on a project where we intend to use BlueJ (http://bluej.monash.edu) with Java3D in a course about computer graphics. Our intention is to have a set of classes which, when instantiated in BlueJ, dynamically add to a Java3D scene graph and display some primitives in a

Re: [JAVA3D] AxisAngle.set(Matrix3d) incorrect for rotation of PI

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Balmforth
Should have said that this was in Java3D OpenGL Windows RELEASE 1.2.1 though the classes affected are platform independent. Best Regards, Peter Balmforth -Original Message- From: Peter Balmforth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 March 2001 15:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D]

[JAVA3D] AxisAngle.set(Matrix3d) incorrect for rotation of PI

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Balmforth
AxisAngle4f.set(Matrix3d) sets the wrong values when the rotation is PI about the Y axis. I think it will occur with some of the similar combinations of classes as well. The following bit of code demonstrates it. Because the rotation is PI the method assumes it is an identity matrix and defaults

Re: [JAVA3D] Transform.normalize -- what does it do?

2001-03-21 Thread Kevin Rushforth
In retrospect, perhaps "orthogonalize" would have been a better name. We'll at least update the documentation for Java 3D 1.3 to make its function more clear. -- Kevin Rushforth Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:55:58 -0800 >From: Paraskevas Or

Re: [JAVA3D] I'd like to "anti-alias" small polygons

2001-03-21 Thread Bill Hibbard
I had thought of that, but was hoping there was some more straightforward way to anti-alias polygons that I was just missing. Bill On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Kyle Wayne Kelly wrote: > Couldn't you define the lines around a character? After that do a scanline > fill, and use anti-aliasing for the li

[JAVA3D] General doubt

2001-03-21 Thread K.R.Karthikeyan
Hi,   I am having a JDialog with one Button. On the click of this button i am opening a JFrame which contains one Button.   Now I am not able to click the button in the frame with mouse. But i can fire the action with space bar or enter.   Is anybody can help me in this

[JAVA3D] screen door transparency bug(??) with modelclip

2001-03-21 Thread Karsten Fries
Hi there, I started using the ModelClip leaf node to cut off parts of my scene. The weird thing that happens concerns the screen door transparency. Normally I use a transparency of 0.5 for my objects. This all works fine, until adding a ModelClip node somewhere in the scene (i attached it to my

Re: [JAVA3D] Sphere Primitive

2001-03-21 Thread Rick Livesey
Thanks Artur. But I've got one more problem, if anyone can help: I really need to display a symbol from the 'Wingdings' font that most computers have installed. I've tried using the Text3D and Text2D classes but the output just displays the text as hollow rectangles, the size of the text. Is thi

[JAVA3D] outside vm exception

2001-03-21 Thread Karsten Fries
Hi there (especially the blackdown guys), we almost always get the attached exception, when using the api in an applet. Can you check, whether this is something you have to deal with, freeiing the canvas. Especially concerning the new release. Have fun with it, Karsten I'm really looking forew

[JAVA3D] Please help for Java3D Interface

2001-03-21 Thread firas
Hello, I need a help for adding menus to my Java3D applet ...? In other words, I need to display my Java3D result in a window with menus ? How it is possible to do this ..? We tried JInternalFrames, JApplet, ... without success ..? Any help will be appreciated ... Thanks  

[JAVA3D] The CameraNavigating example belonging to the Jon Barrilleaux' b ook "3D USER INTERFACES with JAVA 3D":

2001-03-21 Thread Theander Göran
Hello, I have tried to extend the CameraNavigating example downloaded from the Manning Publications website on: http://www.manning.com/Barrilleaux/source.html An event thread is getting new translation and rotation(roll, pitch and yaw) values by continously calling an airplane simulation process.