Re: [JAVA3D] Fast Java Math (was [JAVA3D] Java3D native skinning)

2004-03-10 Thread Silvère Martin-Michiellot
At 21:38 09/03/2004 -0500, you wrote: Silvère Martin-Michiellot wrote: Two remarks: Don't expect anything from Sun on this. (After all you could also ask for networking... and this would finally require many extensions) Java is quite fast now and native, well, is native. Over the past couple of ye

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D native skinning

2004-03-10 Thread Silvère Martin-Michiellot
At 21:22 09/03/2004 -0500, you wrote: Silvère Martin-Michiellot wrote: I did produce a package to do some skinning supporting HANIM spec. If you want to add support for mesh deformation, well that is ok for me. :) Two remarks: Don't expect anything from Sun on this. (After all you could also ask f

Re: [JAVA3D] can you tell if an object is in the current view?

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin
This solution only solves half of my problem. When the window is resized, it will still screw stuff up. I also have another issue where I want to click on the screen and display on object where the user clicked. However, if the user clicks too close to the edge of the window I want to make sure

Re: [JAVA3D] y do i keep getting this exception

2004-03-10 Thread pumpkin
Moin On Wednesday 10 March 2004 16:00, you wrote: > how can i overcome this ?? > javax.media.j3d.CapabilityNotSetException: Shape3D: no capability to allow > intersect > at javax.media.j3d.Shape3D.intersect(Shape3D.java:572) have a look at the j3d-doc of Shape3D: Throws: CapabilityNotSe

Re: [JAVA3D] can you tell if an object is in the current view?

2004-03-10 Thread Rolf Gabler-Mieck
Hi Kevin, I'd managed this in adding the containing Branchgroup to the view BranchGraph, so everey transform, which change the vieplatform is also made for the "Corne-Object" I did it for an arrow to show the direction to the desired target. best regards rolf Kevin wrote: All, Is there a way to

[JAVA3D] can you tell if an object is in the current view?

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin
All, Is there a way to find out if an object is in the current View or not? I have an object that I would like to stay on the edge of the screen no matter how I resize the window or move the viewpoint. Is there a better or different way to do what I am wanting to do? Any help would be much appre

[JAVA3D] Transparency issues

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin
All, I am running into the multiple transparent objects problem listed on the j3d.org site (text at the bottom of this mail). I learned everything mentioned in the first paragraph on my own by trial and error before looking up the problem. I think I understand what he is asking me to do in the s

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments)

2004-03-10 Thread Øyvind Andersen
Too many triangles, eh? I'd say you're probably right :-) However, an algorithm to reduce the number in this particular application does not survive contact with a critical effort-benefit analysis at this point, so it will have to wait. It does not affect performance (FPS) much, so I'm happy. An

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments)

2004-03-10 Thread Øyvind Andersen
Title: Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments) Cool effects, aye, but it looks a lot nicer now that they're gone :-)   Turning double-sided polygons _off_ actually helped quite a bit (maybe that's what you meant anyway). I also changed the front and back clipping planes to a t

[JAVA3D] y do i keep getting this exception

2004-03-10 Thread hyat
I m trying to rotate ,transform ...etc my self made shape using (similar to text3D) using pickrotate behavior etc..i keep getting the following exception while trying to do so...how can i overcome this ?? Exception occurred during Behavior execution:javax.media.j3d.CapabilityNotSetException

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments)

2004-03-10 Thread pumpkin
Hello How many triangles are in that array ? (after looking at the closeup screenshot i would say: too much) do you have overlapping triangles ? What happens if the array is stripified first ? Do you set any transparancy-attributes ? cu =

Re: [JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments)

2004-03-10 Thread Florin Herinean
Title: Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments) Cool efects ! ;-)   What happens if you turn double sided polygons on ? If then your image looks ok, it's most probable that you're having problems with the graphic card zbuffer resolution, i.e. front polygons and back polygons ju

[JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments)

2004-03-10 Thread Øyvind Andersen
Title: Strange rendering issues (Now with _real_ attachments) Hello Attached is a couple of screenshots of an object viewed from different positions, one very close to it and the other a bit further away. As you can see viewing the object from some distance produces some weird and unpleasan

[JAVA3D] Strange rendering issues

2004-03-10 Thread Øyvind Andersen
Title: Strange rendering issues Hello Attached is a couple of screenshots of an object viewed from different positions, one very close to it and the other a bit further away. As you can see viewing the object from some distance produces some weird and unpleasant looking "holes". The object