[JAVA3D] same Action Listener for buttons

2001-08-27 Thread João Paulo Menegatti
Title: Help hi,  do I have several buttons using a same Action Listener, as I will know that button was clicked?    Thank you for the attention

[JAVA3D] Transparency looses color

2001-08-27 Thread Zak Nixon
I am drawing objects with transparency and whenever I rotate the object around another object that is "solid", the transparent object looses its color and turns white. Can anyone explain why this is happening. It is only happening on one of the computers that we use, and is fine on all the o

Re: [JAVA3D] Waiting for offscreen buffer rendering stalls my app

2001-08-27 Thread Joe Boccanfuso
Well I have experienced what both Karsten and Joachim have seen. I have some suggestions. Let me explain my situation. Like Karsten, I use a JPanel to render my off-screen buffer. In my applet, both menu and "mouse click and drag" events cause repaints of the JPanel. The JPanel's paint method

[JAVA3D] Changing object color at runtime

2001-08-27 Thread Zak Nixon
  I am wanting to change the color of an object at runtime. Now, I have placed an AppearanceNode with the object as well. I have tried to do the following.   The object is made up of just 2 Geomentry nodes, the first a QuadArray and the second a TriangleFanArray. I try to set the colors, and

Re: [JAVA3D] Turning objects on and off

2001-08-27 Thread Scott Rutlege
You can also use the setVisible() method of the RenderingAttributes NodeComponent. 8/24/2001 5:52:56 PM, Dola Woolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >This must be very silly question with an obvious >answer. What is the easiest way to toggle objects in >and out of (i.e. show/hide) the scene gr

Re: [JAVA3D] Drifting Grating

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Williams
Can't you use a serious of textures and use a switch interpolator to switch through them making them look like they're drifting? The other thought would be using an animated gif for the texture. I can't remember if I read that animated gifs would or would not work for textures, but might be wort

Re: [JAVA3D] Canvas3D in JInternalFrames on JDesktopPane: Explain the stacktrace / BUG

2001-08-27 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Spencer, The first Exception is bug 4467858 - GeometryArrayRetained getDlistTimeStamp() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException which is already fixed in v1.2.1_02, please upgrade your Java3D version. You're right, the second one is bug 4359764 Java3D do not support > 32 canvas - Kelvi

[JAVA3D] Java3D BUG? Explain Stacktrace: JInternalFrame/Canvas3D

2001-08-27 Thread Spencer Goh
Hi there,   Following on from my last email (RE: [JAVA3D] Canvas3D in JInternalFrames on JDesktopPane: Explain the stacktrace / BUG)  I thought I might send some code which generates the error. Basically I have stripped out most stuff and what I have left will still cause the error.   j

Re: [JAVA3D] GeomInfo useful to me?

2001-08-27 Thread Paul Pantera
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:10:58 -0700 > From: Dola Woolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [JAVA3D] GeomInfo useful to me? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I'm using a GeometryInfo on my objects for two > purposes: strippify and calculate normals. Can I still >

[JAVA3D] Serious suggestion!

2001-08-27 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Hi I've got to make a very serious suggestion to the Java3D Team. Please include in the next release in the Utility-Class SimpleUniverse vwp.setCapability(BranchGroup.ALLOW_DETACH). If you don't do this it might lead to serious memory leaks. For example I've made the experience if it's unable to

Re: [JAVA3D] GeomInfo useful to me?

2001-08-27 Thread Paul Pantera
Yes, this is the purpose of GeometryArray.updateData(). If you do it right, you should be able to change your geometry on a regular basis without slowing down the system too much. However, calculating normals can be tricky. Unless your object is something simple like a sphere or cube, it will b

[JAVA3D] Milkshape 3D Loader released

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin J. Duling
This is the first release of my Milkshape 3D Loader.  It can be found at http://www.users.qwest.net/~kduling/Milkshape/   There are a number of problems with it and I'm hoping someone out there can help me fix them.   Thanks to Gregory Pierce for his input.  And I'm looking forward to seeing

[JAVA3D] New Java 3D book: Java 3D API Jump-Start

2001-08-27 Thread Doug Gehringer
I am pleased to announce the availablity of a new Java 3D book: Java 3D API Jump-Start By Aaron E. Walsh and Doug Gehringer You can read about the book at its web site: http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart We wrote this book as a guide to getting started

Re: [JAVA3D] Drifting Grating

2001-08-27 Thread Guang Bin Liu
Thank you Kevin for your valuable suggestion for my drifting gratings! Best regards, Guang Bin Liu VTHRC Univ. of Queensland St Lucia 4072 Brisbane, Australia _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/in

[JAVA3D] Java3d books

2001-08-27 Thread Adrian Jon Brown
Wow ... in response to Doug's email on his new book, I went to Amazon to check out the price (in expensive US dollars, but nonetheless) and I found some other interesting titles have only just recently come out. A similar search only 3 months ago yielded not much choice in Java3d books. I guess th