[JAVA3D] 3D on OpenGL

2001-04-26 Thread Dennis Vroegop
I know, this is probably a stupid question, but still I have to ask it. Is there a way to generate "nice looking" 3D images using Java without having a client-side DLL or SO or whatever extension? I want to send 3D images from my webserver to a client on the internet and as you can imagine, most

[JAVA3D] Mixing OpenGL display lists and Java3D.

2001-04-26 Thread Magnus Olofsson
Dear all. I have a legacy system which manipulates OpenGL display lists. Is there a way to incorporate a display list into any of the Java3D objects? Or is there a way to decompile the display list and use the information? Best Regards Magnus

Re: [JAVA3D] Simple flat polygon

2001-04-26 Thread Jörg Baus
Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I draw a simple flat polygon from an array of Point3f (that, > of course belong to the same surface) ? > > I tried with GeometryInfo, but I always get an > IllegalArgumentException: StripCounts inconsistent with primitive. > > Thanks for helping me. > > Thomas Jun

[JAVA3D] Not related question

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten Fries
Hi there, this time it's me to ask something unrelated to Java3D. I want the browser (where my java3d applet is embeded in) to change the page, when the user clicked on a specific object. How can the applet communicate back to the browser? If this is not possible directly, can I use Java Script

[JAVA3D] Without serialization,is there another way to transmit BranchGroup object over network?

2001-04-26 Thread qxp
Hi, all, AS we all know, j3d object cannot be serialized ,but I want to place my virtual world on the server, and people can browse it on the client site. how to transmit BranchGroup object(or other j3d objects) over network. I think it is a very tough question. any sugestion will b

Re: [JAVA3D] Bill board transparency, alpha test based...

2001-04-26 Thread David
Try using the alpha test function in RenderingAttributes instead of transparency attributes. Dave Yazel - Original Message - From: Leyland Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:05 AM Subject: [JAVA3D] Bill board transparency, alpha test base

Re: [JAVA3D] Without serialization,is there another way to transmitBranchGroup object over network?

2001-04-26 Thread Pierre Abel
    Hi, all, AS we all know, j3d object cannot be serialized ,but I want to place my virtual world on the server, and people can browse it on the client site. how to transmit BranchGroup object(or other j3d objects) over network. I think it is a very tough question. any sugestion will be appre

Re: [JAVA3D] Not related question

2001-04-26 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Use: Applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(URL) - tells the browser to load the page at the given URL in the current browser window Applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(URL, String target) - tells the browser to load the page into the window named "target". A target window can be a whole

[JAVA3D]

2001-04-26 Thread Leonid Perlov
Hi ! can somebody point me to the place where I could download html converter for the Plug-in 1.3.0_02 please. There is only converters for Plug-in 1.3 and 1.3.0_01 on official Plug-in site. The Plug-in 1.3 does not have a proper security support ( does not check the certificate chain ), whi

Re: [JAVA3D] Not related question

2001-04-26 Thread Karsten Fries
Thanks Lee, this is perfect. I love Java!!! Cheers, Karsten "J. Lee Dixon" wrote: > Use: > Applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(URL) - tells the browser to > load the page at the given URL in the current browser window > > Applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(URL, String target) - te

Re: [JAVA3D] Bill board transparency, alpha test based...

2001-04-26 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Wow, I've been fighting depth-sorted transparencies and hadn't thought about this method. I do have some objects that are partially transparent, but the vast majority are just masks. I am now setting my rendering attributes to display if GREATER than 0.5, but the masking doesn't seem to be worki

Re: [JAVA3D] Bill board transparency, alpha test based...

2001-04-26 Thread J. Lee Dixon
I feel like such a dope. Yep, I got it to work. Only set the RenderingAttributes, not TransparencyAttributes. Just a bug in my code. Range-ordering works, billboarding, lighting. Very nice. What ticks me off more is that I have been fighting for 2 weeks to get range-ordered transparencies go

[JAVA3D] Java3D bloats memory?

2001-04-26 Thread Nikolai V. Chr.
I started loading a big VRML97 scene into J3DFly, I discovered that whenever I minimize the application the memory consumption goes to about 50-70 megabytes. But when I maximize it again and moves around a couple of minutes, it quickly reaches 120 megabytes. If I once again minimize J3DFly it inst

Re: [JAVA3D] is this a YUP bug or is it just the code?

2001-04-26 Thread Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski
If you look a the code you will recognize that the volume data will be put as textures on planes parallel to the x-y, y-z and x-z planes. Depending on your viewpoint the textures will be showed along the x, y, or z axes using the planes parallel to the y-z, x-z or x-y planes respectively. The chan

Re: [JAVA3D] XJ3D Loader

2001-04-26 Thread J. Lee Dixon
Watchin' the listserv, drinkin' a Bud. Or in French: Observant le listserv, buvant un Bud. -Lee > -Original Message- > From: Olivier BANASZAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [JAVA3D] XJ3D Loader > > > WAZZZUUP ?? >

Re: [JAVA3D] 3D on OpenGL

2001-04-26 Thread Westley A Sherman
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Dennis Vroegop wrote: > Is there a way to generate "nice looking" 3D images using Java without > having a client-side DLL or SO or whatever extension? I haven't used it myself but "jGL" is supposed to be a pure Java OpenGL implementation. Too bad there isn't a version of Jav

Re: [JAVA3D] Without serialization,is there another way to transmit BranchGroup object over network?

2001-04-26 Thread Paul Byrne
The com.sun.j3d.demos.utils.scenegraph.io package which is available as part of Sun Java 3D(tm) Fly Through from the the Java3D web site provides a mechanism for sending BranchGraphs accross a Java stream. Rgds Paul -- Paul Byrne

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D bloats memory?

2001-04-26 Thread Yazel, David J.
I recently spent a couple of days profiling our application. Its a slow process because JProbe cannot profile a project running in JIT mode, it has to be running in interpreted mode. It takes 40 minutes to get to my first frame :) Well anyway I found very little duplication of memory. I had ki

[JAVA3D] Automatic calculation of scale

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Moscoso
Hi all !! I'm developing applets that use loaders for OBJ and 3DS files. The scale I have to set to the loaded BranchGroups of the files always depend on the model. Is there any way to calculate the scale to represent a model to fit exactly the Canvas3D ? Thanks in advanced !! Dani -- Dies

[JAVA3D] Picking order

2001-04-26 Thread Joaquin Casillas Melendez
Hello. I'm new to Java3D and I'm trying to do some stuff with picking mechanism. I've extended the MouseBehaviorApp example in order to add picking capabilities. I have two cubes with picking enabled, and when a cube is picked, it renders in wireframe mode. I've extended the PickMouseBehavior cla

[JAVA3D] Transparency Faq

2001-04-26 Thread Yazel, David J.
In 3d programming there are several different types of blending and transparency which you can use, all with different effects and all with different strengths and weaknesses. Using the alpha channel as a mask is the most efficient since this is done during rasterization and is a simple test which

Re: [JAVA3D] XJ3D Loader

2001-04-26 Thread giles
I will be travelling alot in the next week. We are going to put out milestone 1 release on May 8th. Just doing testing now so if ya want to checkout a current CVS release and start bashing on it feel free. The loader portion is all done, mostly working on the sample browser right now. Olivier

Re: [JAVA3D]

2001-04-26 Thread Paul Pantera
Current Plugin Converter support is lacking. What I'd do is take the html from the Java 3D demo programs and modify it for your program. -Paul > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking order

2001-04-26 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Joaquin, Try (1) Use Java3D v1.2.1 or later if you are using v1.2 (2) pickCanvas.setMode(PickCanvas.GEOMETRY); (3) pickCanvas.setTolerance(0); See attach email from archive. - Kelvin - Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems Inc. >X-Unix-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 26 09:12:04

Re: [JAVA3D] Sun help! Joined Shapes With Lighting Problem

2001-04-26 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Geoff, I can see when the program startup, there is two small black line in the initial orientation. Moving the cylinder around will sometime see the artifact (under windows). Under solaris, it works fine. Probably because a combination of numerical precision, opengl and graphics card

Re: [JAVA3D] Bill board transparency, alpha test based...

2001-04-26 Thread Leyland Needham
BTW, I think I remember it being called cookie-cutter transparency. > Im not sure what to call it, but I want to do a bit mask kind of transparency > for texture mapped billboard type objects. In OpenGL this is done by alpha > testing, and if the alpha value is below 0.5 its transparent and if it

[JAVA3D] Getting a constant maximum frame rate...

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Fernandes
Hello,   I'm new to Java3D and I'm trying to get a wakeup behavior to give me a constant maximum frame rate.  When I use WakeupOnElapsedTime the best I seem to be able to do is about 20 FPS.  But when I use WakeupOnNextFrame(0) the FPS is almost 200, but that is very dependent on the speed o

Re: [JAVA3D] 3D on OpenGL

2001-04-26 Thread John Davies
Dennis, If you want your 3D scenes to move around then you are going to need some respectable CPU power, the DLLs make best use of this. However, if you are going to distribute static 3D scenes then you can do what we did and render your scene to a BufferedImage and use Servlets to distribute t

Re: [JAVA3D] Not related question

2001-04-26 Thread Daniel Moscoso
Hi all ! I want to do it in the inverse way. For example, I have a j3d applet that loads a model file. This applet receives the filename and the scale as parameters from the HTML file. Pushing different links, I want to pass different parameters to the applet and display different files. Is th

[JAVA3D] XJ3D Loader

2001-04-26 Thread Olivier BANASZAK
WAZZZUUP ?? === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help

Re: [JAVA3D] XJ3D Loader

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Workman
True, True. -Alan === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the messag