Re: [JAVA3D] dodecahedron geometry

2000-08-02 Thread Carl Smotricz
Haroldo, At 02:09 02.08.00 -0500, you wrote: > I need the geometry of the dodecahedron in format similar to tetrahedron >of the .../demo/java3D/Appearance/tetrahedron.java. > > This file is the class extends the Shape3D. > > Where do I find this file? In a word, nowhere. You'll either have to

Re: [JAVA3D] how to step back?

2000-08-02 Thread Carl Smotricz
Hello again, Grace! At 22:44 01.08.00 -0700, you wrote: >I use simple universe, I put a few boxes vertically lining up, however some >boxes are missing. When I resize the frame, more boxes are missing. I was >told that we can more the viewer back or look down, I don't know how to do >it except si

Re: [JAVA3D] how to step back?

2000-08-02 Thread Joerg Baus
grace Wang wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > This is grace. > I use simple universe, I put a few boxes vertically lining up, however some > boxes are missing. When I resize the frame, more boxes are missing. I was > told that we can more the viewer back or look down, I don't know how to do > it except si

[JAVA3D] DirectionalLight bug in Java3D 1.2 ?

2000-08-02 Thread G . Veith
hi all, In the current release, it looks like a directionalLight gets moved when you move the scene. The error occurs in immediate mode. I haven't tested it under retainted compiled mode yet. I have attached a demo to show what's going on. The demo consists of a inner cube (blue, opaque) and a ou

Re: [JAVA3D] dodecahedron geometry

2000-08-02 Thread Bob Gray
Maybe this is what your looking for I did a Java 3D program to display the Platonic solids (and some others). This is the Dodecahedron Geometry I used. Note this is only the Geometry, not the Appearance(s). You can see the program I used this in at http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/Java3D/Octav

[JAVA3D] Node.getParent() return type

2000-08-02 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Why does Node.getParent() return a reference to a Node? Why not a Group? Being a Node is not enough to parent another node, the parent node must be a Group, right? I ask because I ALWAYS cast the output of getParent() to Group (or some class derived from Group). J. Lee Dixon Software Engineer

Re: [JAVA3D] how to step back?

2000-08-02 Thread Joerg Baus
Joerg Baus wrote: > > grace Wang wrote: > > > > Hi, everyone, > > This is grace. > > I use simple universe, I put a few boxes vertically lining up, however some > > boxes are missing. When I resize the frame, more boxes are missing. I was > > told that we can more the viewer back or look down, I d

[JAVA3D] CSG or BRep

2000-08-02 Thread Terence J Fagan
Hello all,     I was wondering if java 3D API's are Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) or Boundary Representation (BRep). I could not find it anywhere, although I might be looking in the wrong places. Thanks in advance.                             Terence

Re: [JAVA3D] CSG or BRep

2000-08-02 Thread Crossley, Allistair (A.)
There have already been some queries relating to CSG (boolean operators). Java3D does not support such operations and therefore not CSG.   I haven't seen any b rep stuff anywhere either although I did render face geometry using Java3D rather well (but alas with polygons).   Allistair  

[JAVA3D] Wierd behavior

2000-08-02 Thread Yazel, David J.
Hi all. I want to preface this and other questions/comments with the statement that I am a Java3d novice. I am just learning this and many of my questions will be out of ignorance. I have read the white papers, api spec, tutorials and looked at all the demo programs. However there seems to be

Re: [JAVA3D] Wierd behavior

2000-08-02 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Dave, First, if certain items in the scene are not reacting to lights, then they may have one of several things wrong. For objects to be lit, they must: 1) have normals specified for each vertex 2) have lighting enabled in their material 3) have colors for each lighting type (ambient, dire

Re: [JAVA3D] Wierd behavior

2000-08-02 Thread Yazel, David J.
Thanks Lee! Anyone know how these guys are rendering this image in java3d? Has some impressive lighting and shadows: http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/Projects/glymp3d/overview.html P.S. Lee are you planning on posting your loader sometime, sounds like good work! Dave Yazel > -- > From:

[JAVA3D] Finding Vertex and Texture Map coordinates from loaded VRML file

2000-08-02 Thread Matthew Cairns
Does anyone know how to get the texturemap and vertex coordinates from a loaded VRML file? - with a view to manipulating facial shape and texture in Java3D. thanks Matt === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] an

Re: [JAVA3D] Wierd behavior

2000-08-02 Thread Steve Pietrowicz
Taking the last question first, the NCSA 3DS loader doesn't support textures, so that's why you're not seeing any in the models. The YouBuildItVR code was written in three days, right before the Java 3D contest deadline (which was a few years ago), and it basically hasn't been touched since then.

Re: [JAVA3D] Wierd behavior

2000-08-02 Thread J. Lee Dixon
I looked at the image... yes, the lighting and shadows are impressive looking, but notice that there is no shadow beneath the character. The shadows are probably precomputed or are part of the texture. This is one way of cheating to get shadows, but of course is not real-time. Although I am int

Re: [JAVA3D] dodecahedron geometry

2000-08-02 Thread Kasparian, Raffi J.
Bob, Your email sure caught my attention. I went to your applet page and it looks like you've made a good start. You might be interested in a Platonic/Archimedean Java applet that I created a couple years ago. It is written entirely in Java 1.1 (no Java3D). By the way, it calculates the corners o

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3d on the web

2000-08-02 Thread Fred Klingener
Hi, John. Thanks for the response and the encouragement. Now that I've finally got my browsers running, I too can announce that it's trivially easy. That is if I forget the years of tears and sweat getting a half a dozen jdks to run from the command line, IDEs to run at all, jdks to run from th

[JAVA3D] com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.Box;

2000-08-02 Thread b. white
I want to use The wireFrame of the Box but when I set the appearance of the Box to have the PolygonAttribute PolyGon_Line the wireframe appears with a diagonal line from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the face. I don't want this, is their someway I can get rid of that diagonal

[JAVA3D] UnsatisfiedLinkError - Anybody?

2000-08-02 Thread peter
Hi, i've been working with j3d for months now and all of the sudden i got this error after simple restart never seen anything like this before ..if someone can help me to shed some light on this one i'll be greafull my pc: 733P3 256M NT4.0 SP5 using jdk 1.3.0 and java3d-1_2-win

Re: [JAVA3D] CSG or BRep

2000-08-02 Thread Qiuli Sun
I think java 3D is more like BRep and has nothing to do with CSG. CSG is a data structure to represent 3D object in CAD world.   Qiuli -Original Message-From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terence J FaganSent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:2

[JAVA3D] How to increase the initializing speed of applet with Java 3D

2000-08-02 Thread Qiuli Sun
Hi, I have an applet with 230k and found that it is much slower to start the applet than to start a Shockwave movie of same size. I am using jdk1.3 and Java 3D, so a java 1.3 plugin is used. Does anyone has any idea about increasing the downloading speed and initializing speed? I tried to use jar

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3d on the web

2000-08-02 Thread Fred Klingener
Hmmm. Just tried to download and install java3d-1_2-win-opengl-rt.exe. InstallShield offers to install the rt in ...jre/1.2. If you accept the default and you're running your plug-in out of ..jre/1.3 this is a problem. No? Yes? Maybe? Fred Klingener Brock Engineering Roxbury CT

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3d on the web

2000-08-02 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Fred, You can always change the default later using the Java Plugin Control Panel in the window start menu later to specific the jdk directory where J3D install. - Kelvin --- Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems Inc. >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-M

Re: [JAVA3D] How to increase the initializing speed of applet with Java 3D

2000-08-02 Thread adam treat
if you disable the JIT JustInTime Compiler this will speed up the time it takes to load the applet, unfortunately this will also decrease the performance of your applet. adam --- Qiuli Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an applet with 230k and found that it is much slower to start >

Re: [JAVA3D] UnsatisfiedLinkError - Anybody?

2000-08-02 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi, getNumberOfProcessor() is a native call in J3D.dll, please make sure that the PATH is pointing to the right java3d version. (1) check if j3d.dll is locate under c:\jdk1.3\jre\bin if c:\jdk1.3\ is the installation directory. (2) check if there is any other jdk version in your PATH b

[JAVA3D] nt and java3d

2000-08-02 Thread Ben Arbel
hi all..   im experimenting some strange things with nt.. once i try to run any j3d app or application two things mught happen , either i dont see anything displayed or i just see an empty window with nothing in it.. i even tried running some of sun j3d demos through JBuilder or dos prompt

[JAVA3D] Java compiling question

2000-08-02 Thread Jack Pien
hi,   i have a general Java compiling question.  the app i'm writing has a debug build and release build (basically toggling of a static final DEBUG variable - debug code is encased inside the if ( DEBUG ) conditionals).  i understand that if DEBUG = false, all the code inside the scope of t