Re: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning, and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-30 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Wolfgang Kienreich wrote: > It nearly works now: > bumpmapping goes into the first stage, then the second stage uses > interpolation to add (texture * objectcolor)+ (bumpmap*(1-objectcolor)) with > the bumpmap being inverted first by usign ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR. Why do you do this in such way ? I

Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Doug Twilleager
Java 3D will revert to multipass rendering to simulate the number of stages requested. Doug Twilleager Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems >Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning and: A bunch of questions. >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 &

Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning,and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi Wolfgang > >[SNIP] > >Wow someone actually is reading WSCG papers :) [Well actually it should be > >Iron, Roettger and Ertl] As Iron was a student from Roettger who actually > >came to the idea. > > You tell me about naming orders ;-) I've already spend many hours of Well the paper itself was

Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi Wolfgang > The idea with the additional stage is great, by the way: What does J3D do if > I specify more stages than the card supports? I'm already using two stages, > and a third would be needed for your proposal to work. RGBScale: Guess Well I think I read something in the JavaDocs like not

[JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Kienreich
Thanks Artur! The idea with the additional stage is great, by the way: What does J3D do if I specify more stages than the card supports? I'm already using two stages, and a third would be needed for your proposal to work. RGBScale: Guess what - multiplies :-( When setting it to anything but one,

Re: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning, and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Wolfgang Kienreich wrote: > Another problem: I'm using dot3 bumpmapping and I've been trying for some > time to combine it with object color and texture within just two texture > stages. Btw, thanks to j3d.org for explaining. It nearly works now: > bumpmapping goes into the first stage, then the

Re: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning, and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread BEGHIN Matthieu
Hi, I'm using the obj file loader. I export it from 3DS with the max2obj plugin and I haven't found any problem.I got another question about loader : does the vrml97 loader creates behavior that creates interactivity, for example : a VRML file which programs an animation when a object is clicked ?

[JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning,and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Kienreich
Hi there, >[SNIP] >Wow someone actually is reading WSCG papers :) [Well actually it should be >Iron, Roettger and Ertl] As Iron was a student from Roettger who actually >came to the idea. You tell me about naming orders ;-) I've already spend many hours of diplomatic effort to ensure everyone in

Re: [JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning, and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-27 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi > One of my current problems is the generation of shadows. I know about > dynamic shadow maps, and about the trick published by Roettger, Iron and > Ertel on using the Alpha buffer in the absence of a stencil buffer (as is Wow someone actually is reading WSCG papers :) [Well actually it shoul

[JAVA3D] Loaders for Java3d: Cautioning, and: A bunch of questions.

2002-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Kienreich
Hi Brad, Hi Olaf! First, greetings to all the members of this group. I've just signed up and I'm glad I've finally found some people to discuss J3D mysteries with. For a living, I'm doing research in knowledge visualisation, consequentially focussing on 2D graphics. But privately I've been devel

Re: [JAVA3D] loaders for Java3d

2002-05-27 Thread Brad Christiansen
Hi, They have a selection of loaders on j3d.org at: http://www.j3d.org/utilities/loaders.html They have loaders for ac3d, vrml, 3ds, dfx, obj etc etc Cheers, Brad > Olaf Ringleb wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm searching for ANY loaders which are available for Java3d at the > time. (e.g. 3dsmax, x3d, B

Re: [JAVA3D] loaders for Java3d

2002-05-27 Thread Mojtaba
Hello, We (University of Ottawa,Canada) have a Java BIFS decoder (loader) with Java3D as the compositor. Contact me if you are interested. Mojtaba > Olaf Ringleb wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm searching for ANY loaders which are available

[JAVA3D] loaders for Java3d

2002-05-27 Thread Olaf Ringleb
Hi,   I'm searching for ANY loaders which are available for Java3d at the time. (e.g. 3dsmax, x3d, BIFS, VRML, obj, lightwave) Can anyone tell me where I can find and download some of them?   Olaf Ringleb