Re: [JAVA3D] FW: [JAVA3D] making an object(s) "disappear"

2001-05-03 Thread Mona Wong
Hi Ahmed: Thank you very much for your generous help! Cheers, Mona > You can do No.1 or No.3 > > No.2 could work but is not a good idea speciall if there are other objects behind it. then chaning the color to background color wont help > > No.3 will work if u have the object(s) in your

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance hit of various nodes

2001-05-03 Thread Chien Yang
Jean, Switch : I would break the performance cost into 3 parts, ie. memory cost, rendering cost, and update cost. Here you've mentioned the following scene setups : A) SW B)G / ... \ / ... \ /\

Re: [JAVA3D] Please help - Texture Loader!!

2001-05-03 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Does your shape have texture coordinates? It really could be a number of things. I would suggest looking at the demonstration code supplied with the J3D SDK to see the differences between your code and the demo code. -Lee > -Original Message- > From: Tina Manoharan Valappil [mailto:[EM

Re: [JAVA3D] Solid Models

2001-05-03 Thread Gupta, Vineet ERDC-TEC-VA
3dcafe.com has several free models. Vineet -Original Message- From: Daniel Moscoso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D] Solid Models Hi all !! Does anyone know a website with free solid 3D models ? Thanks in

[JAVA3D] Performance hit of various nodes

2001-05-03 Thread Jean Laleuf
Hi everyone, Does anyone know what the cost is (in memory use and execution speed) for various types of nodes? I'm particularly interested in the following: Switch: How does the performance of 1 Switch w/ multiple children using the switch's childMask compare to the performance of having 1 Switc

Re: [JAVA3D] making an object(s) "disappear"

2001-05-03 Thread Jean Laleuf
** Seems I didn't send a copy of this to the list. Sorry about that. Mona, You should be able to put the objects in question under a Switch node. When you detect which object your user wants to turn off, figure out which switch node it's under and turn the switch node off with the following (ass

[JAVA3D] update a SHAPE3D object

2001-05-03 Thread osam
Hi, all We have created an instaceof QuadArray. This one is added in TransformGroup that is second time add in BranchGroup. We use the standard PickBehaviors from Java3D API. We would like to update the vertices coordinates of our QuadArray when we turn translate and zoom it in scene. Can you

[JAVA3D] Specific Alternate Appearance

2001-05-03 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
>From what I see, AlternateAppearance substitutes entire appearance of affected object. Is there any way to substitute only specific parts of appearance ? I would like object inside scope to become semi-transparent - thus replacing only TransparencyAttributes setting. I would like Material/Texture

[JAVA3D] Please help - Texture Loader!!

2001-05-03 Thread Tina Manoharan Valappil
Hello, I am sorry to send this message again, but I really need some help with this.. When I apply texture I dont see the texture , only a single color is applied to it instead. For e.g if I apply a cloud texture then dark blue appears or if I

[JAVA3D] InputDevices and Behavior

2001-05-03 Thread Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski
Hi all, Maybe someone can give me a hint. I've observed a strange behavior with an input device with different calculations of the input values. one way is like that (multiplying a difference matrix in the behavior): code in InputDevice implementation: { // itsPositionValues: values read f

Re: [JAVA3D] Calling OpenGL in native code.

2001-05-03 Thread Magnus Olofsson
Thanks for the answer Doug. Is Java3D 1.4 scheduled for release yet? Are we talking 2001 or 2002? /Magnus === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTE