Re: [JAVA3D] Stereo, Next Release?

1999-11-23 Thread Inaam Khan
Hello can you tell what A Stereo Glasses would cost and where you could get one. On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Steve Pietrowicz wrote: > We've been busy working on something that will be announced in the next day or > two, so that part of the FAQ has not been updated yet.As noted, it does > work unde

[JAVA3D] Headtracking

1999-11-23 Thread Stephan Haut
Hi there!!! Can anybody help? I don't know where the headtracker-data have to be contained in the java3d View-Model for the room-mounted display. Thanks, Stephan Haut. === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

[JAVA3D] Project in 3D involving networks.

1999-11-23 Thread Inaam Khan
Hello ppl i would like to do my senior project for BSC computer science degree in 3D with networking combined. This project is supposed to be big and we have 6months with three people being Java3D programmers and network programmers. I would like to get help from experts in 3D to guide us in choo

[JAVA3D] WakeupOnCollisionMovement???

1999-11-23 Thread Magnus Andersson
I have a problem with this when also using WakeupOnElapsedFrames. The code I am using is like this: public void initialize() { wakeupEvents = new WakeupCriterion[3]; wakeupEvents[0] = new WakeupOnElapsedFrames(1); wakeupEvents[1] = new WakeupOnCollisionEntry(shape); wakeupEvent

[JAVA3D] Multiple collisions?

1999-11-23 Thread Magnus Andersson
Is there some way to find out more than one object that an object have collided with using the behavior class? .getTriggeringPath gives me one but if there is more collisions they are lost. How can I get them? .--. M. Andersson /// [EMAIL PROTECTED

[JAVA3D] wideangle view?

1999-11-23 Thread clemenTs schröder
hi there, in my j3d app, i've to move in some pretty small rooms. for easy navigation i want a widangleview for my viewplatform. is it possible? how can i do it? so long ... clemenTs === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL P

[JAVA3D] Flash 911

1999-11-23 Thread Hock, Gregg
Folks...Any input would be most appreciated! We have ported all our components to swing and have ONE LAST BIG PROBLEM...a white flash or screen refresh occurs on the canvas3d whenever you move the mouse across the menubar or use different pulldowns. We see the same behavior running on a variety

[JAVA3D] IllegalSharing exception

1999-11-23 Thread Christian Petermann
I get an IllegalSharingException in my application even though I cloned the BranchGroup I want to copy. Does J3D keep any reference in the current Universe of the node it duplicates? If so, how can I remove those references so that I can use the cloned object in another universe? Thanks, Chris.

Re: [JAVA3D] ncsa 3DS loader support of surface normals

1999-11-23 Thread Patrick van Bergen
Yes, the problem seems to be the Rhino export function for 3D studio files. It gives all color-components (diffuseColor, specularColor, ambientColor) the same values, resulting in dull, non shaded colors, for the objects. Patrick - Original Message - From: Steve Pietrowicz <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [JAVA3D] A java3d book in China. (with source files).

1999-11-23 Thread Kulkarni, Rajeev
Title: RE: [JAVA3D] A java3d book in China. (with source files). Can we get his book at the local Book Stores or do we need to place a special order for it? -Original Message- From: Jie Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[JAVA3D] Problems with Extrusion

1999-11-23 Thread Danielle Rousy Dias da Silva
Hi all, Do anyone know what it is wrong with Extrusion? I have two objects done in wrl with extrusion nodes, when i imported to j3d the objects were completely different and crazy. Can anyone help me? Rousy. Msc. Student UFPE-BRAZIL --- ==

[JAVA3D] CULL_NONE?

1999-11-23 Thread Bob Gray
I have a polyhderon centered at the origin. I defined the PolygonAttributes of the appearance to be A.setPolygonAttributes(new PolygonAttributes(PolygonAttributes.POLYGON_FILL, PolygonAttributes.CULL_NONE, 0.01f, false)); I then set the front cull d

[JAVA3D] Viewing myself avatar

1999-11-23 Thread Danielle Rousy Dias da Silva
Hi all, I would like to put in my project several views points, one of them is to see my avatar walking in the world, how can I do this? Thanks, Rousy. Msc. student - UFPE/BRAZIL --- ===

[JAVA3D] HELP: Picking

1999-11-23 Thread David Charles Hirschfield
I'm trying to do picking without extending PickMouseBehavior, but I haven't been able to get it to work. What I want to end up with is a method like: PickAt(x,y) that simply returns the closest picked object along the ray from (x,y) into the scene. I've tried using a PickObject, but that didn'

Re: [JAVA3D] Game consoles and settop boxes?

1999-11-23 Thread Anselm Hook
It's a challenging problem. The JVM itself has to be ported. There needs to be an OS with thread support and hardware device support such as I/O devices. The JVM is not specifically tuned for that kind of hardware - for example on the PS2 it is inordinately expensive (50+ cycle waiting period)

Re: [JAVA3D] Render Order

1999-11-23 Thread Doug Gehringer
> I have loaded a VRML file with the VrmlLoader that looks great except that > there isn't any Z-Buffer processing whatsoever. It looks like each object > can be seen reguardless of objects that should obscure them, but not all > of the time. They seem to flicker depending on (I guess the order >

Re: [JAVA3D] Test Case!!! Re: Render Order

1999-11-23 Thread Doug Gehringer
The problem is the lines: u.getCanvas().getView().setBackClipDistance(100.); u.getCanvas().getView().setFrontClipDistance(.01); Change your clipping planes so that the back/front ratio is smaller than 3000 (i.e. u.getCanvas().getView().setFrontClipDistance(0.1)) and your problem will go aw

Re: [JAVA3D] CULL_NONE?

1999-11-23 Thread Bob Gray
Never mind, I got it You det the "false" to "true" in the PolygonAttributes Any way to make the inside a different color without defining a different polygon? -Original Message- From: Bob Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

[JAVA3D] VRML-Java3D

1999-11-23 Thread Ajit Dharmik
Hi all!! I have a navigable maze in VRML 97 and i want to use it in Java 3d progs. Though I can read simple VRML files, this one seems to be complex. Can someone please tell me how to go about it? I succesfully used the Loader class in a simpler J3D-VRML program. Thanks in advance. Ajit ___

Re: [JAVA3D] HELP: Picking

1999-11-23 Thread Tim Bray
At 12:24 PM 11/23/99 -0500, David Charles Hirschfield wrote: >I'm trying to do picking without extending PickMouseBehavior, but I >haven't been able to get it to work. > >What I want to end up with is a method like: > >PickAt(x,y) By a weird coincidence, I just finished getting this to work. 1.

[JAVA3D] HELP: PICKING!

1999-11-23 Thread David Charles Hirschfield
I'm still trying desperately to get simple picking to work. I tried doing the following: create a pickobject PickObject thePicker = new PickObject(canvas,root); create a ray at the center of the window PickShape theRay = thePicker.generatePickRay(128,128); use the ray to pick into the branchGr

[JAVA3D] Not specifically J3d, how to jump elsewhere?

1999-11-23 Thread Tim Bray
In response to a user event, I want to jump from my j3d applet off to another web page, i.e. mimic the effect of clicking on an in HTML. I know how to do this in javascript, but I've never done it in an applet, and came up empty after a quick tour of the Java 2 docs. Obviously this must be possi

[JAVA3D] Answering my own question

1999-11-23 Thread Tim Bray
I stupidly wrote, 20 minutes into a javadoc search that turned out to require 22 minutes: >In response to a user event, I want to jump from my j3d applet off to >another web page, i.e. mimic the effect of clicking on an in HTML. Applet.getAppletContext(); ==

Re: [JAVA3D] HELP: Picking

1999-11-23 Thread Doug Gehringer
PickMouseBehavior is layered on top of PickObject, how does it not behave the way that you expect? Doug Gehringer Sun Microsystems > Subject: [JAVA3D] HELP: Picking > > I'm trying to do picking without extending PickMouseBehavior, but I > haven't been able to get it to work. > > What I want to

Re: [JAVA3D] Flash 911

1999-11-23 Thread John Sutter
You like that too? I tend to set the background color of the canvas (I'm talking AWT here) to the same color I happen to use for the J3D Background node I'm using. It still flashes, but it flashes the same color so you don't notice it.. -jds

Re: [JAVA3D] Stopping J3D

1999-11-23 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Additionally, in 1.2_beta we have implemented the new VirtualUniverse methods, removeLocale and removeAllLocales. The latter is just the thing for the applet destroy() method. -- Kevin Rushforth Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:02:33 -0800 >Fr

[JAVA3D] New publication on Java3D

1999-11-23 Thread Ted Kennedy
We need several people with Java3D expertise to advise us on a new publication on 3D UI with Java3D. If interested, please send an email directly to < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a short description of your credentials and I will send you more information. -

[JAVA3D] Possible to get at the HTML DOM?

1999-11-23 Thread Tim Bray
Can I, from my mostly-J3D applet, find a way into the IE5 or NS4.x HTML DOM so I can twiddle with stuff in the browser DHTML-style? -Tim === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the mess

Re: [JAVA3D] Test Case!!! Re: Render Order

1999-11-23 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Java 3D renders primitives in an arbitrary order, but uses a Z-buffer to cause nerer objects to be rendered "in front" of farther objects. The problem is that the ratio of the back/front clipping planes in your test program is 1e8. A ratio of more than about 3000 starts affecting the ability of m

Re: [JAVA3D] CULL_NONE?

1999-11-23 Thread Kevin Rushforth
>Never mind, I got it You det the "false" to "true" in the >PolygonAttributes Correct. This sets the backFaceNormalFlip attribute to true. >Any way to make the inside a different color without defining a different >polygon? No. We looked into doing this and there is no clean/efficie

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D programmer

1999-11-23 Thread Jeffrey Moore
Hi Robert, Some questions about your requirements: What kind of killer app is it? What are your deadlines? How much time per week will realistically be needed to meet those deadlines? Will there be travel involved? How much do you want to pay? I'm currently working on a web-based, 3D busine

Re: [JAVA3D] Not specifically J3d, how to jump elsewhere?

1999-11-23 Thread Tria
Perhaps you mean this..   in your mouseclicked function, you can add this line :   getAppletContext().showDocument(hrefURL, hrefTarget); where hrefURL is URL of that webpage (must be in URL class) and hrefTarget is the target frame..   Is this what you mean?   Regards, Tria   - Original M

Re: [JAVA3D] Possible to get at the HTML DOM?

1999-11-23 Thread Adam Hill
If you are using IE and the MS VM, yes via COM. If you are using NS or IE and the Java Plugin, you will have to go through JSObject. JSObject is a finicky thing so it may or may not be problematic. You will have to plumb the depths of the Sun Java Plugin Page. As they say in the videogame Smash

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML-Java3D

1999-11-23 Thread Blaine Alex Bell
I have found that some of the fields do not parse correctly in the Loader, especially the Indexed classes that have fields that default to -1. If you specify them in the VRML file, the parser does not like it, and it hangs. Take all of the specified fields in your VRML files that are the default

Re: [JAVA3D] Possible to get at the HTML DOM?

1999-11-23 Thread Tim Bray
At 08:14 PM 11/23/99 -0600, Adam Hill wrote: >If you are using NS or IE and the Java Plugin, you will have to go >through JSObject. JSObject is a finicky thing so it may or may not be >problematic. You will have to plumb the depths of the Sun Java Plugin >Page. Yee-hah! it works... you can catch