[JAVA3D] The terrain list, was it ever established?

2002-03-14 Thread Allan Andersen
Some time ago there was some discussion about the creation of a discussion list for terrain rendering. Was this list ever created? If so, where do I join? Allan === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include

[JAVA3D] Capturing Images to JPEG using an Off-Screen Canvas3D

2002-03-14 Thread Pierce, Matthew A
To All: Here is an alternative to the CapturingCanvas3D. Background: I wanted to allow my user to capture a frame from a dynamic scene, in my case an aircraft model undergoing a structural vibration. I was using a Morph object and a MorphBehavior to animate the airplane geometry. Using Capturing

[JAVA3D] Thank u all

2002-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Rekalidis
Hi I am going to unsubscribe from the list thank u for u help all of u. Bye === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email

[JAVA3D] Design question to Collision Detection

2002-03-14 Thread Thomas Gick
Hi, i have 2 Shape3D objects which are both in a different transformGroup. if i move these objects around, i modify the corresponding transform3d object. I you transformation and rotation. Is it a categorical error, if i try to use a collision detector, to find out, when the 2 objects touch each

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
> Hi Simeon, > > > ImageMgr.GRID_SQUARE.getImage() > > Would you be willing to reveal how you generate the image please? > That's just my internal code for image management (my images are enumerated values mapped to in-jar files so that I get compile time errors for badly referenced images). I s

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Mike Goldwater
Hi Simeon, > ImageMgr.GRID_SQUARE.getImage() Would you be willing to reveal how you generate the image please? Regards Mike Mike Goldwater Auric Hydrates Ltd __ Work: 020 8949 0353 Mobile: 07956 359001 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Discussio

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Doug Twilleager
We are working with the JDK groups on an auto-download server using webstart technology. The sticky part of all of this is export controls. Whenever anyone tries to download a Java technology, a reverse IP check needs to happen to verify that the software is not going to somewhere it's not suppo

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
> -Original Message- > From: Discussion list for Java 3D API > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrea Boright > > I have looked through the documentation "Deploying Java > Extensions" and "Optional Package Versioning", and it seems > rather theoretical. That is, I understand that t

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Schulman
Andrea - You can bundle java3d with your application, but you cannot just set up another server for Java 3D. If someone is going to download Java 3D separate from an application, it does have to come from the java.sun.com servers (or the appropriate ones for SGI,HP,IBM,Linux). > Date: Thu, 14 M

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Boright
So, that brings me back to where I started: I have looked through the documentation "Deploying Java Extensions" and "Optional Package Versioning", and it seems rather theoretical. That is, I understand that the parameters in the manifest need to be supplied with values, but I don't know what

Re: [JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>The worst bit was that if I tried to close the window, it would shut >>all of Mozilla down. > > > Ooh, that's ugly and should be fixed ASAP. BTW, not only > com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.Viewer is broken. Swing's JFrame has t

Re: [JAVA3D] where is this org.web3d.j3d.loaders.VRML97Loader

2002-03-14 Thread Fábio Magalhães
Thanks, but what should i do with the tar.gz file to install the vrml package in my computer? Fábio --- Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Fábio Magalhães wrote: > > Where can i get this packages > > org.web3d.j3d.loaders.VRML97Loader ? www page ? > > You can find an installer here:

Re: [JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The worst bit was that if I tried to close the window, it would shut > all of Mozilla down. Ooh, that's ugly and should be fixed ASAP. BTW, not only com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.Viewer is broken. Swing's JFrame has the same bug. , | import javax.sw

[JAVA3D] Interpolators

2002-03-14 Thread Raúl
Many time ago I and others discussed about that but I don't find the mails. The questions are: 1) I want to use a PositionInterpolator to move an obect from (by example) (0,4,2) to (-1, 3, 9). Can anybody tell me how i can do it? thanks a lot. I don't understand what says at API specification.

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Andrea Boright wrote: > I will also be checking if the user has JRE1.4 (via the CODEBASE parameter in the >OBJECT tag). I want to check for JRE1.4 and J3d at the same time. That is, if the >user doesn't have JRE1.4 and doesn't have J3D, I don't want them to have to download >just JRE1.4, load

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Boright
Thanks everyone for such quick responses. I've never had such immediate response from a newsgroup before! I am going to try some of your suggestions, but what I am really hoping to find is this: I will also be checking if the user has JRE1.4 (via the CODEBASE parameter in the OBJECT tag). I

Re: [JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > If the Viewer object is created without any Canvas3D's [...], it > will create the Canvas3D's as needed. [...] If the Viewer object > creates the Canvas3D's, it will also create a JPanel and *JFrame* > for each Canvas3D. Err... but at least with our cod

Re: [JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Nunnari Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is very strange. I don't know if I missed some docs, but seems > that my application is automatically opening a full featured > java.awt.Frame instead of using mine. Does anyone knows if it is a > bug or I missed something. Your code calls

[JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Bell
In response to: "I am writing java applets, with some Java 3D in them. I am using JRE1.4. I'd like to be able to detect whether a user has Java 3D installed, and warn them if they don't." Create a method which returns a boolean and contains a try-catch block such as: public boolean is Java3

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Mike Goldwater
Hi Cristian, > I want to represent a wireframe with filled polys and lines at the same time > (filled polygons with drawn margins). Do I have to add 2 Shape3Ds to a > BranchGroup, one with filled polygons and one with lines, having the same > coordinates? Or is there an easier way? I h

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Simeon H.K. Fitch wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Discussion list for Java 3D API >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrea Boright >> >>It looks like the PackageInfo sample can be run as an application >>only. I need to detect the presence of Java3D from a web browser >>(IE6 or

Re: [JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Nunnari Fabrizio wrote: > This is very strange. I don't know if I missed some docs, but seems that > my application is automatically opening a full featured java.awt.Frame > instead of using mine. > Does anyone knows if it is a bug or I missed something. AAAHH IOk, So I wasn't on drugs when

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
> -Original Message- > From: Discussion list for Java 3D API > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrea Boright > > It looks like the PackageInfo sample can be run as an application > only. I need to detect the presence of Java3D from a web browser > (IE6 or NS6.2), either via Javasc

[JAVA3D] Weird. Java3d Automatically opens wondows?

2002-03-14 Thread Nunnari Fabrizio
Hello everybody, This is very strange. I don't know if I missed some docs, but seems that my application is automatically opening a full featured java.awt.Frame instead of using mine. Does anyone knows if it is a bug or I missed something. Tested on Linux Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.3-20mdk) - Matr

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Enrique Dumas
Hello, Could you make a screen capture of your app ? I am using at this time 2 shape3D to make the same job, it is slow ...   "Simeon H.K. Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message-> From: Discussion list for Java 3D API[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cristian Tota> I want

Re: [JAVA3D] No SVG Textures :(

2002-03-14 Thread Justin Couch
Vincent Hardy wrote: > This is insulting. > > You may not have found yet what you wanted in the Batik software, > but I do not see why you would make such a comment. Eh, so be it. As I said, I was venting after a couple of days of frustration working with what I consider to be a poorly archticte

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Simeon H.K. Fitch
-Original Message- > From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cristian Tota > I want to represent a wireframe with filled polys and lines at the same time > (filled polygons with drawn margins). Do I have to add 2 Shape3Ds to a > BranchGroup, one with f

Re: [JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Ingo Brunberg
> I want to represent a wireframe with filled polys and lines at the same > time > (filled polygons with drawn margins). Do I have to add 2 Shape3Ds to a > BranchGroup, one with filled polygons and one with lines, having the > same > coordinates? Or is there an easier way? No one, that I am aware

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Paul Byrne
Hi Andrea, Here is the code I use to check if Java3D is installed. I also go on to check the version number of Java3D is correct for my app Package p = Package.getPackage( "javax.media.j3d" ); String version = p.getImplementationVersion(); if (version==null) {

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking objects under ViewingPlatform-geometry?

2002-03-14 Thread Raj Vaidya
Hi, Maybe this might of interest I use the mode "PickCanvas.GEOMETRY" to PickTranslate and PickZoom objects under PlatformGeometry, and they seem to work quite well. *HOWEVER*, in at least one particular test case, I had considerable difficulty in trying to get a pick hit for BYREF geometr

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Boright
Thanks for the quick reply. It looks like the PackageInfo sample can be run as an application only. I need to detect the presence of Java3D from a web browser (IE6 or NS6.2), either via Javascript or a Java applet. Preferable via javascript (or via parameters on the tag), since I'd like to

[JAVA3D] filled polygons with visible margins

2002-03-14 Thread Cristian Tota
I want to represent a wireframe with filled polys and lines at the same time(filled polygons with drawn margins). Do I have to add 2 Shape3Ds to aBranchGroup, one with filled polygons and one with lines, having the samecoordinates? Or is there an easier way?Thanks,Cristian

Re: [JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Cityweb
> I'd like to be able to detect whether a user has Java 3D installed, and warn them if they don't. > Watch out for the PackageInfo sample (e.g. C:\j2sdk1.4.0\demo\java3d\PackageInfo). - J === To unsubscribe, send email to [

[JAVA3D] Picking objects under ViewingPlatform-geometry?

2002-03-14 Thread Holger Langner
Hi, I'm working on a menu-based interaction for my 3D-scene. This 3D-menu should be a dashboard which is always in front of the viewer. So I added all corresponding nodes (simple Boxes, which serve a buttons) under the ViewingPlatformGeometry. ...But I can't pick them: The pickCanvas.pickAll-meth

[JAVA3D] j3D detection

2002-03-14 Thread Andrea Boright
I am writing java applets, with some Java 3D in them. I am using JRE1.4. I'd like to be able to detect whether a user has Java 3D installed, and warn them if they don't. How can I do this? Thanks, Andrea Boright Andrea Boright Applications Developer SAS inSchool, Where learning comes to lif

Re: [JAVA3D] No SVG Textures :(

2002-03-14 Thread Vincent Hardy
Justin, As the team contact for the Batik project, and on behalf of our team, I am responding to your comments about the software we are developing at Apache. > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 13 17:35:52 2002 > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:38:32 +1100 > From: Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[JAVA3D] where is this org.web3d.j3d.loaders.VRML97Loader

2002-03-14 Thread Fábio Magalhães
Where can i get this packages org.web3d.j3d.loaders.VRML97Loader ? www page ? where should i put it in my computer ? I willtry to use the vrml loader to build my app, how can i do this. Thanks. Fábio Magalhães ___

[JAVA3D] Transform3D.lookAt creating extruded geometry

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Crompton
Hi all, In order to extrude a 2D face along a curve I'm using the inverse of the lookAt transformation. The 2D face has a fixed normal of (0,0,-1) and up vector of (0,1,0). The lookAt method does a great job of placing the 2D face at the correct point along the curve and rotating it so the fa

Re: [JAVA3D] local coordinate system

2002-03-14 Thread Ingo Brunberg
I guess, OrientedShape3D or Billboard is what you are looking for, OrientedShape3D being the faster and better approach in Java 3D. Ingo >Hi, > >I have a similar problem. I have a scene in which I have names at the >top of flag-posts. I manipulate the scene with the usual MouseBehaviours >and th

Re: [JAVA3D] local coordinate system

2002-03-14 Thread Mike Goldwater
Hi, I have a similar problem. I have a scene in which I have names at the top of flag-posts. I manipulate the scene with the usual MouseBehaviours and the names move quite normally with the rest of the scene. I would like to inhibit the rotation of the names so that they always remain face on to