Re: [JAVA3D] what is inside Billboard? (and much more)

1999-09-23 Thread Jon Barrilleaux
Yow! Talk about convoluted interactions. I figured out what the problem is (kind of)... Lets start from the present and work back in time. 1) Transparency is a bit schizophrenic. When a shape is made transparent and that shape involves a texture with transparency the spec is somewhat unclear

Re: [JAVA3D] texture mapping question

1999-09-23 Thread Hexerei Software Creations
possibly a bug in the texture loader? i am using: TextureLoader(java.lang.String fname, java.awt.Component observer) - and - TextureLoader(java.lang.String fname, java.lang.String format, java.awt.Component observer) and have no problems loading my local textures... maybe you could try using these

Re: [JAVA3D] Any dashboard examples?

1999-09-23 Thread Hexerei Software Creations
have a look at how Text2D works... i adapted that class to a Mask2D class, which does the same, except it doesn't draw text, but an image i passed... what you get is good for a static transparent dashboard which you could add to the root node of your branchgroup (either z-buffer disabled or move i

Re: [JAVA3D] OPENSOURCE: Java 3D Scenegraph Viewer

1999-09-23 Thread Justin Couch
At 04:31 PM 9/22/99 -0400, Daniel Selman wrote: >I have been developing a Java 3D scenegraph viewer for my book "Java 3D >Programming". I have put quite a bit of time and effort into the tool >[Java3DTree] and I feel that it will be generally useful to the Java 3D >community. There also used to b

Re: [JAVA3D] view model (by trial and error)

1999-09-23 Thread Justin Couch
catching up on some past issues. Kevin Rushforth wrote: > >OK, bitch time :) Why is it that Java3D always seems to want to do > >things differently to every other Java API? Firstly appologies. I read back on this and everything really did come out wrong. I'll blame being highly stressed with my

[JAVA3D] easy way to make circular arc?

1999-09-23 Thread Dennis Goetz
Hello, I would like to be able to draw an arc between two given points and was just wondering if anyone had suggestions on how I could accomplish this, or if someone already had a class to do this that they would be willing to share? Thanks, Dennis ==

[JAVA3D] [java3d] Pick an object - MouseClickBehaviour class ?

1999-09-23 Thread Uwe Trostheide
Hello Justin, many thanks for the source-code you posted to the Java3d-mailinglist concerning my problem "how to click an object". It seems to be exact the code i need. In the first line of your source-code you write "public class MouseSelectBehaviour extends MouseClickBehaviour" Well, i can n

[JAVA3D] three rotations

1999-09-23 Thread Oliver Radfelder
Hi Another question. Sorry, but I am not as familiar with 3d grahics as I should be: First, what I try to do: I have two points p1 and p2. I want to draw a 3d arrow from p1 to p2. My current solution is to compute the three rotations (x,y,z) seperately and to rotate the arrow like this Transfo

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D Terrain

1999-09-23 Thread Allen McPherson
Olivier fillon wrote: > The data I get is not from a grid=> more like a cloud of surface points. > to solve this problem, the first step has to be a triangulation of the data > set ( I have used delaunay algo). > Then I been able to use j3d normal generator and stripifier. > For those interested,

[JAVA3D] how to use the htmlconverter

1999-09-23 Thread SUBSCRIBE JAVA3D-INTEREST peter
dear all i am a beginner. i want to ask how to use the htmlconvert. After i decompress it,there is no executable file.So how to call the program to change the html file?Also, i just set up the enviroment, how can i test my enviroment can see java3d or not?any web site? Thanks All ==

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D Terrain

1999-09-23 Thread Steve Pietrowicz
Allen McPherson wrote: > Olivier fillon wrote: > > > The data I get is not from a grid=> more like a cloud of surface points. > > to solve this problem, the first step has to be a triangulation of the data > > set ( I have used delaunay algo). > > Then I been able to use j3d normal generator and

Re: [JAVA3D] ANY good jave3d teach site

1999-09-23 Thread Vladimir Olenin
This is the most comprehensive one with a whole bunch of useful examples: http://www.sdsc.edu/~nadeau/Courses/VR99 (U'll be really lucky if u manage to download the tutorial from the first time: the site is VERY busy and connection is absolutely unstable. But believe me, your efforts do worth thi

Re: [JAVA3D] JAVA3D-INTEREST Digest - 21 Sep 1999 to 22 Sep 1999 (#1999-103)

1999-09-23 Thread b. white
I have written a program that creates a branchgroup attatches it to a scene displays it and then records the time it takes a user to hit a key. The process repeats 42 times. On my pII 300 with 128 megs Ram it gives fastest reaction times of about 300-500 milliseconds which is reasonable. The c

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D Terrain

1999-09-23 Thread Roberto Speranza
Decimating the triangle set can be done in a manner analogous to the technique used for determining the best points for drawing a set of lines that approximate a spline curve. Once you get your set of triangles via Delauney or some other algorithm, you locate all of the vertices that are shared b

Re: [JAVA3D] easy way to make circular arc?

1999-09-23 Thread Justin Couch
Dennis Goetz wrote: > I would like to be able to draw an arc between two given points and was > just wondering if anyone had suggestions on how I could accomplish this, or > if someone already had a class to do this that they would be willing to share? You might want to look at the java.awt.geom

Re: [JAVA3D] [java3d] Pick an object - MouseClickBehaviour class ?

1999-09-23 Thread Justin Couch
Uwe Trostheide wrote: > In the first line of your source-code you write > > "public class MouseSelectBehaviour extends MouseClickBehaviour" > > Well, i can not find the class MouseClickBehaviour anywhere. Is it a > custom class as well ? And if so, whats the purpose of it ? Here they are. There'

[JAVA3D] error when running applet

1999-09-23 Thread SUBSCRIBE JAVA3D-INTEREST peter
dear all i just download the hello3d example from sun web site.But when i try to run the applet inside the broswer,it show a error "applet hello3d error: java.lang.NoclassDefFoundError:javax/media/j3d/Canvas3d. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem Thanks !! =

[JAVA3D] error in running applet inside a browser

1999-09-23 Thread SUBSCRIBE JAVA3D-INTEREST peter
dear all sorry to distrub again. When i try to run other example picktexture(also come from sun web) the browser show a error "Applet pick texture class picktexture got a security violation:method verification errror". Any idea? THX ALL ===

Re: [JAVA3D] easy way to make circular arc?

1999-09-23 Thread Dennis Goetz
At 08:03 AM 9/24/99 +0800, you wrote: >Dennis Goetz wrote: > > I would like to be able to draw an arc between two given points and was > > just wondering if anyone had suggestions on how I could accomplish this, or > > if someone already had a class to do this that they would be willing to > share

[JAVA3D] transparency, texture, and overlap

1999-09-23 Thread Jon Barrilleaux
My venture into transparency, texturing, and overlap is coming to a close. Here are a few additional observations to those from my post yesterday... These observations are made using transparent shapes with a transparent texture. I haven't had time to try other combinations and permutations and

Re: [JAVA3D] error when running applet

1999-09-23 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Make sure u installed both Plug-in and Java3D library. Don't forget to move (or copy) all your files from jre\lib\ext directory up one level if u r running Windows system. -=V=- SUBSCRIBE JAVA3D-INTEREST peter wrote: > > dear all > i just download the hello3d example from sun web site.But when

Re: [JAVA3D] error in running applet inside a browser

1999-09-23 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Don't forget to convert .html files coming in the package. As to texture sample, u wouldn't be able to run it in browser unless appropriate security policies are set in java.policy file (u need to allow the applet to access your file system). The deal here is that in those examples all external fi