Re: [JAVA3D] Lessons Learned

2003-08-08 Thread N. Vaidya
Very much appreciate it Doug. Extraordinarily comforting to say the least. And in general to the list, my humble opinion is that if at all there was a time to think of doing 3D graphics with Java, now is probably the best time. Especially so, after all the public announcements and commitments to 3

Re: [JAVA3D] test JAVA3D

2003-08-08 Thread John Wright
There is a demo included with Java3D called "PackageInfo" that shows how to check the version of Java 3D that is installed. - John Wright Starfire Research Auguste Genovesio wrote: > > I'm looking for a very simple sample code which would check whether java3D > is setup or not. > > thanks > > --

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance on Linux

2003-08-08 Thread Renoir Sewjee
Hi, The default driver for NVidia cards on linux does software rendering. You can download the latest driver from http://www.nvidia.com/. I have seen huge performance improvements but along with this came a few bugs (visual artifacts, problems with offscreen rendering, etc). Regards, Renoir Aless

[JAVA3D] Bounds behaviour

2003-08-08 Thread Nikolai V. Chr.
What is bounds supposed to be in the transformGroup above the viewPlatform? Mine is autocomputed to: center (0, 0, 0) rad= -1.0 I find this very strange. And the viewPlatform isself has a NULL bounds. Do anyone know what the 'normal' values would be? Is it normal to explicit set the bounds of th

Re: [JAVA3D] About Java3D Direct3D stability on different hardware

2003-08-08 Thread Ben Moxon
I have found that the OpenGL versions are far more reliable than the DirectX ones, and more likely to run on different systems.   -ben -Original Message-From: Vladimir Vernikovski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 06 August 2003 12:40To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [JAVA3D] Ab

Re: [JAVA3D] Lessons Learned

2003-08-08 Thread Doug Twilleager
No offense taken. The only thing I can offer right now is my sincerest appologies for this whole process taking so long. I really do feel for all you developers who have been waiting for an official answer. My only explanation is that Sun is a big company, and it sometimes takes big companies a

Re: [JAVA3D] Lessons Learned

2003-08-08 Thread Doug Twilleager
Thanks Paul. Because of where I am at, I can't say anything too public about what is going on. We are working towards something that should make the Java 3D development community happy. Doug. Paul Pantera wrote: I was a member of the Java 3D group at Sun from its inception to the initial round

Re: [JAVA3D] Creating a background of twinkling stars against a black sky.

2003-08-08 Thread Alessandro Borges
What about a textured sphere in the Background node, with some behavior to change the starly textures ?? Do not forget to inverse the normals of the sphere ... About texture animation see the TextureByReference demo. Alessandro Dr. Thomas escreveu: Hello, Does anyone know of a fairly straight-for