Re: [JAVA3D] Objects in mulitiple views (can i make them invisible)

Dear Zak, > I have an 2d overlay on 1 of my 4 views of a particular scene. Now if the > viewingplatform of view 1 moves into > the view of any other view, the platform geometry (2d overlay) shows up. This is intended behavior. Consider the platform geometry to be 'the avatar itself' or say 'the

Re: [JAVA3D] Sound Question

Dear Panos, > I have just found a bug submission on the issue (bug id 4680280). As the bug parade search engine seems to have a problem and thus I couldn't find that bug: Is there a workaround/solution? Would you please send a working example to the list? Thanks Georg ___ ___ | + | |__

Re: [JAVA3D] lookAt()

For a matrix that has only rotation, the inverse is the transpose. So first get the non-inverted rotation matrix mat, and use trans.set instead of lookAt. The columns of mat are the Rt, Up, Dir Vector3ds. Matrix3d mat; Transform3d trans; mat.setColumn( 0, Rt);// Rt

Re: [JAVA3D] Background Node/objects and Fog

Title: Background Node/objects and Fog That makes sense.   I'll check the slides, I didn't see anything in the examples but it's been awhile since I looked there.    I can't believe I said "foggin".  I'm not a redneck.  "fogginG."   Thanks, Scott -Original Message-From: Doug Twilleag

Re: [JAVA3D] Background Node/objects and Fog

Title: Background Node/objects and Fog Smith, Daniel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> So we'd have fog in both background, and the rest of the scenegraph?  Not possible to add the node at a higher level?   No, because background geometry really is a completely independent subgraph t

Re: [JAVA3D] Background Node/objects and Fog

Title: Background Node/objects and Fog So we'd have fog in both background, and the rest of the scenegraph?  Not possible to add the node at a higher level?   Regarding oriented shapes, thats what I suspected.   I suspected the "scope" in the fog node is what I needed.  Is there any good docs on

Re: [JAVA3D] octree with object bound volumn and occlusion culling

Gamasutra.com, or flipCode.com, are great sources for "game programming" articles. Here's one from Gamasutra about occlusion culling... http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991109/moller_haines_02.htm Sean > -Original Message- > From: Lan Wu-Cavener [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: T

Re: [JAVA3D] Background Node/objects and Fog

Title: Background Node/objects and Fog To get fog to apply to background geometry, you need a fog node in the background geometry scene graph. To get better control of fog application, try using the scoping methods in the Fog nodes. This will allow you to limit their scope to certain subgraphs.

Re: [JAVA3D] Objects in mulitiple views (can i make them invisible)

>On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:05:47 -0500, Zak Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >I have an 2d overlay on 1 of my 4 views of a particular scene. Now if the >viewingplatform of view 1 moves into >the view of any other view, the platform geometry (2d overlay) shows up. Is >there anyway to turn that to be

Re: [JAVA3D] Overlays (j3d)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 17:13, you wrote: > Does anyone have any example code using the overlay package from j3d.org ? > > If so, can you email to me please? Here is a code sniped I used. But the labelOverlay didn't worked very well for me. For exampl

Re: [JAVA3D] Alpha in Multitextur combines

We currently don't make available a debug version of Java 3D.  If we did, we could add this. Doug Twilleager Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems Joachim Diepstraten wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Hi Doug OpenGL error are mostly ignored - at least for rendering calls. It wouldbe very expensive

[JAVA3D] Terrain texturing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Currently I am using multi texturing to get terrain transitions. But they are really slow, as I need 1 - 9 textures per grid (in the most cases it are only 3-4, but 9 is theoreticaly possible). How are you doing terrain transtions? By using a on

Re: [JAVA3D] cliping plane problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 June 2002 21:05, you wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about the back clipping plane. I have a 3D scene that > is located in the origin (0,0,0). The maximum extensions of the scene > are about 20.0fx20.0fx20.0f. I have created my o

[JAVA3D] Objects in mulitiple views (can i make them invisible)

I have an 2d overlay on 1 of my 4 views of a particular scene. Now if the viewingplatform of view 1 moves into the view of any other view, the platform geometry (2d overlay) shows up. Is there anyway to turn that to be invisible for the other views so that they can not see it? -Zak

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

Hmm, interesting. Yes, the noddraw flag did work for the OpenGL runtime on this ATI card. It also suffered from the same problem of not resizing the canvas. I've been trying to update my driver, but it's an odd animal. It's not listed in any of ATI's literature. Thanks for the help. - O

[JAVA3D] View manipulation

I'm designing a simulation model using Java3d to render the results. Does anyone know of, or have an example of a user interface to move the view around and view other parts of the virtual world easily. Just looking for some hints for how to make it easy to interact with the rendering and input

Re: [JAVA3D] Sound Question

I have just found a bug submission on the issue (bug id 4680280). I was looking for Sound bugs instead of JavaSoundMixer ones :-) sorry for that. Panos - Original Message - From: "Panos Gkikakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: [

[JAVA3D] Sound Question

Hi all, I'm having trouble using the sound nodes BackgroundSound and PointSound. The sound samples I load (16 or 8 bit, 44,100 Hz) are played once as soon as they are loaded and the scene goes live. And thats irrespective of whether I enable them initially, set their loop count to infinity etc.

[JAVA3D] lookAt()

Hello guys, How can I get the the parameters for a Transform3D.lookAt(target, position and vector up) method from the inverted matrix of a Transform3D? Thanks! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.co

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

> Thanks, that is the parameter I was looking for in the archives. > > I can reproduce the OpenGL error on this machine 100% of the time. > It's > probably a driver issue and therefore outside of Sun's control. How about using the flag -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true for OpenGL version also ? I got mai

[JAVA3D] recommend me a book

hi, i'd like someone to recommend me a book (not a web), for learning to put graphic animations in web pages (using java language). Thanks === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the me

Re: [JAVA3D] texture mapping using image with black background

Save your image to a file type that supports transparency ( .gif or .png ) - set the area you want to see the background through as transparent, and then try texture mapping with that image. Here's a snippet of code which might help. BufferedImage dest; ... ImageComponent2D ic = new ImageCompone

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

Kevin J. Duling wrote: > Thanks, that is the parameter I was looking for in the archives. > > I can reproduce the OpenGL error on this machine 100% of the time. It's > probably a driver issue and therefore outside of Sun's control. The OpenGL > Runtime works flawlessly on my WinXP laptop wi

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

Thanks, that is the parameter I was looking for in the archives. I can reproduce the OpenGL error on this machine 100% of the time. It's probably a driver issue and therefore outside of Sun's control. The OpenGL Runtime works flawlessly on my WinXP laptop with a GeForce2-GO. Is it also a known

Re: [JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

Thats where it is! I remembered that this was around, but I couldn't remember where it was. The problem I'm having is that I am getting the effect seen in Figure 14.16 instead of the effect from Figure 14.12- the texture doesn't seem to be repeating around corners. I can understand this happen

[JAVA3D] texture mapping using image with black background

Hi, all: I have a simple question. I am using a tree image (jpg file) with black background to do texure mapping. How can I make the black background color change to my current background color which is light blue(sky color)? I have noticed that all the texture mapping I found are using the exa

Re: [JAVA3D] Model Formats

Java 3D have a good archive of model loaders at: http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders.html What sort of problems have you seen before? If you want to use MD3 (incidently whats an MS2, MD2 typo?) I have a loader that I haven't released _yet_. Kev John Hynd wrote: > Hey, > >Cheers for the f

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

I can second Jeremy on this. On my laptop, I've got to set it to 60hz. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode > > > > Any suggestions as to what the probl

Re: [JAVA3D] Model Formats

http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders.html - Original Message - From: "John Hynd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: [JAVA3D] Model Formats > Hey, > > Cheers for the full screen help. Looks like a good discussion is off > anyhow.

[JAVA3D] Overlays (j3d)

Does anyone have any example code using the overlay package from j3d.org ? If so, can you email to me please? Thanks Zak === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JA

Re: [JAVA3D] Pb with Starefire loader in applet

I just had to download the last version.Thanks     BEGHIN Matthieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Hi,I'm using the Starfire 3ds Loader. It works well when not in an applet.When I use it in an applet, I have to load from the URL to avoid access denied exception :  url = new URL(codeBase, fi

[JAVA3D] Read coordinates in a GeometryArray without the flag BY_REFERENCE

Hi, I just want to read vertex coordinates in an ObjectFile, but the ObjectFile loader in version 1.3b2 of java3d creates GeometryArray without the flag BY_REFERENCE => I cannot use "triangleStrip.getCoordinate(point, index);" Can I read coordinates another way ?Can I load my file and get BY_REFERE

[JAVA3D] Model Formats

Hey, Cheers for the full screen help. Looks like a good discussion is off anyhow. Quality. I get all the mails in the wrong order, I get replies to mails that arrive after. Cos I'm in Scotland? Mail servers and all that. Anyway, new question. I'm looking to load models in to Java3D. These wi

Re: [JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

Ben, http://www.manning.com/selman/onlinebook/Htmls/3DJava_Ch14.htm Sincerely, Daniel Selman Author - "Java 3D Programming" http://www.manning.com/selman -Original Message- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Moxon Sent: Friday, June 14, 20

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

Katja, Check out the VrmlPickingTest example from my book. It should include most of what you need. You will just have to create your scenegraph yourself, rather than loading from a VRML file. Sincerely, Daniel Selman Author - "Java 3D Programming" http://www.manning.com/selman -Original

Re: [JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

Actually, just noticed a mistake in what I sent originally float[] textco = { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f}; The texture reading backwards if you face the shape away is what you'd expect with the appropriate mappi

Re: [JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

Thanks, thats a really big help. It makes things a lot clearer but it seems that no matter how I change the co-ordinates the texture still behaves like a stick of rock - If I have a shape facing the viewer with the words "BlackPool Rock" written on it you can read them fine, but if I have a s

Re: [JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

Texture mapping coordiantes are pairs of floats normally refred to as (u,v). u is the horizontal position on the texture image, and v is the vertical position on the texture image. Your texture coordiantes: Point on QuadTexture Coordinate

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

The reason you get GeomertryArray and Shape3D capability runtime exceptions is because the Box is built up of these elements. You might try using the flag, Primitive.ENABLE_GEOMETRY_PICKING when you construct the Box primitive. When you say a plane, I assume you've creatd a Quad or some other

[JAVA3D] All my textures face the same way

How can I make my textures face "out" of my objects- they all seem to just want to point along the Z- direction so any faces I create that are at 90 degrees to this just don't show properly at all. Basically, I've got my object created like this: int[] stripCounts= new int[2]; str

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

You have to set the capabilities for your Shape3D objects. You can use PickTool.setCapabilities( ) for this. Ricardo At 06:06 14/6/2002, you wrote: >Hi all! > >I have built a world that includes boxes, spheres and a plane. I want to be >able to get coordinates by picking the objects.

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

> > Any suggestions as to what the problem is because I'd quite like to build > some fullscreen apps, can you set your windows to 800x600 in 32 bit colour running at 75hz?, if windows doesn't think it can run at 75hz then the res change will fail, try 60hz (in screen.properties file) more when i

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

I looked up the capability bits for boxes in the java doc and added all of them. But I still get those errors. Why do I get a Shape3D and a GeometryArray error when I click on a Box? Thanks! Katja > > I tried to do it with PickCanvas, but I always get a > > CapabilityNotSetException: "GeometryAr

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

Hi Is your graphics card an monitor capable of 800x600x32 @ 75hz?, one would hope so if your doing j3d, but who knows :), have you tried changing to a difference res/bpp/refresh (screen.properties file)? Thanks Jeremy Ewan Borland wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried it under Win98SE, jdk1.4 j3d1.3be

Re: [JAVA3D] Full Screen Exclusive Mode

Hi, I've tried it under Win98SE, jdk1.4 j3d1.3beta2 OpenGL version and get the following : Initialising main window Setting fullscreen resolution 800x600 in 32 bit colour at 75hz java.lang.InternalError: Could not set display mode at sun.awt.Win32GraphicsDevice.configDisplayMode(Native Method)

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

> I tried to do it with PickCanvas, but I always get a > CapabilityNotSetException: "GeometryArray: no capability to get vertex count" when I >click on the > plane and "Shape3D: no capability to get geometry" when I click on one of the > boxes. Which capabilities are have to be set? You need to

[JAVA3D] Picking CapabilityNotSetException

Hi all! I have built a world that includes boxes, spheres and a plane. I want to be able to get coordinates by picking the objects. What is the best way to do this? I tried to do it with PickCanvas, but I always get a CapabilityNotSetException: "GeometryArray: no capability to get vertex count"

[JAVA3D] Pb with Starefire loader in applet

Hi,I'm using the Starfire 3ds Loader. It works well when not in an applet.When I use it in an applet, I have to load from the URL to avoid access denied exception :  url = new URL(codeBase, filename); Loader3DS loader = new Loader3DS(); loader.setBaseUrl(codeBase); s

Re: [JAVA3D] New High-Level Shader Language

Hi Christoph > The problem is manufacturers want to get the 'jump' on their rivals by > trying to force their 'standards' out, and fool people into thinking > everyone will adopt them. Everyone buys their cards, the other vendors > are upset, and make their own super cool feature (TM) and want in

Re: [JAVA3D] New High-Level Shader Language

Javaneers, > > pixel shader instructions, for both DirectX and OpenGL. It looks like the > > compiler only works for NVIDIA cards for now, but other vendors (ATI?) will > > be able to make their own implementations. > > That's unlikely to happen. ATI is at the moment ahead of NVIDIA. And ATI > w