[JAVA3D] New Bug in ReadRaster!

2001-12-17 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Ehlo A new bug seems to have been introduced in J3D1.3beta1 concerning readRaster (it wasn't there in 1.2.1_0x). When you specifiy a readRaster object which should only read the Depth (Raster.RASTER_DEPTH) you still have to specify an ImageComponent2D for Color. If you set it to NULL a NullPointe

Re: [JAVA3D] Linux Web Browser Animation of VRML with Java3d ...Works Great.

2001-12-17 Thread Justin Couch
Ah, the wonders of unfiltered email when travelling For reference to those here, the Web3D consortium board have issued an ultimatum to Flavin to shut up and do something constructive or be banned from all their lists, not just some of them as he is now. "P. Flavin" wrote: > This is with

Re: [JAVA3D] Rotation

2001-12-17 Thread Justin Couch
"kani A." wrote: > > Dear friends > >Iam a beginner in learning java3D, I have a doubt about the rotation please help >to understand it. Actually I rotate a object around yAxis , I want to tilt the axis >of rotation to certain degree. I don't have idea . please anybody help me. Rotations i

Re: [JAVA3D] Linux Web Browser Animation of VRML with Java3d ...Works Great.

2001-12-17 Thread Joachim Diepstraten
Ehlo Justin > For reference to those here, the Web3D consortium board have issued an > ultimatum to Flavin to shut up and do something constructive or be Maybe SUN should do the same. Nothing against Flavin in person but his posts produce more flame wars than constructive discussions. And this g

[JAVA3D] Unordinary Behavior of Sphere

2001-12-17 Thread Zak Nixon
Hello all, and Good Morning..       I have drawn a Sphere with a "earth" texture on it, and have placed political boundries and lat/lon boundries (Line Strip Arrays) on the surface of it. Now here is the problem...Whenever I zoom out, the sphere looks like it reduces in size, the texture

Re: [JAVA3D] Unordinary Behavior of Sphere

2001-12-17 Thread Zak Nixon
I have fixed it, but I dont know why...I set the front clip distance to .001 instead of .0001.   ?   Zak - Original Message - From: Zak Nixon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:40 AM Subject: [JAVA3D] Unordinary Behavior of Sphere Hel

[JAVA3D] The Truth about VRML animation with Java3d and the Sun VRML Loaders.

2001-12-17 Thread P. Flavin
I share with you and an interest in civil and productive discussions where the truth prevails. I am not happy with the current situation either. It's important that the facts 'get out'. and the facts have been obscured, distorted, and misrepresented. Please be patient a little longer.

[JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Reiss
After Justin's recent reply to a newbie about performing Rotations in Java3D, I noticed Justin's link to the J3D Org's info on quaternions. Even though i am not really involved in Java3D any longer I decided to take a peek. When I followed the link: http://www.j3d.org/faq/manipulating.html#quate

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Fred Klingener
I agree with Eric's recommendation that the j3d FAQ should point to the cs.alberta.ca Quaternion FAQ. Google gives about 2000 hits for [Quaternion +FAQ], and even the currently maintained ones obfuscate as much as they reveal. The real problem is that the quaternion FAQ is an orphan - it isn't a

[JAVA3D] obj coordinates

2001-12-17 Thread thorsten topol
Hi, I would like to get my 3d object coordinates in order to put its name (a text3d) on its barycenter. Do you know how to get these coordinates? Thanks in advance. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yah

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Gerard Peregrin
In a message dated 12/17/01 7:43:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I feel that it is a huge mistake to keep these mistakes out there in the public domain and perpetuate the same problems on novices when we should be providing guidance to them. >> Thank you for providing this thread. It contin

Re: [JAVA3D] Linux Web Browser Animation of VRML with Java3d ... Works Great.

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Knezevic
hi flavin, if you're such a wizard with this 3d stuff, why haven't i seen one usefull post of you on this list. why don't you help the newbies instead of writing those lousy mails. many people on the list need help (me included). in this way you really could change a little bit. so please stoppin

[JAVA3D] Java 3D FAQ Weekly Posting (17 Dec 2001)

2001-12-17 Thread The Java 3D FAQ
The Java 3D Frequently Asked Questions list for Monday December 17 2001 This is a posting of topics covered in the Java 3D FAQ. The answers to these questions are kept at: http://www.j3d.org/faq Please consult this list and the web site before asking questions on the mailing list. If

Re: [JAVA3D] What does this EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION mean ?

2001-12-17 Thread Kelvin Chung
Resend again... - Begin Forwarded Message - Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:41:46 -0800 (PST) From: Kelvin Chung Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] What does this EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION mean ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Hi Jack, Ra

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Justin Couch
Eric Reiss wrote: > > After Justin's recent reply to a newbie about performing Rotations in > Java3D, I noticed Justin's link to the J3D Org's info on quaternions. Even > though i am not really involved in Java3D any longer I decided to take a peek. You've sent me this before, which I fixed last

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Mona Wong
Hi Eric: > Mona Wong had one at: > http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/~mona/matrfaq.html > but it seems to be down. I've removed mine because the one you mentioned (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~andreas/math/matrfaq_latest.html) is being updated. Cheers, Mona =

[JAVA3D] Efficient Animations

2001-12-17 Thread Pierce, Gregory (TBS)
Title: Efficient Animations The Java3D API gives us many ways to do animation, but for someone who doesn't want to write code for each one before finding out the pro's and cons of each approach I'd like to get some information on the best way to approach the subject. I've looked into morphing,

Re: [JAVA3D] New Bug in ReadRaster!

2001-12-17 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi J.D, Bug 4614743 - NullPointerException in readRaster() for depthComponent is filed for this. This will be fixed for the next beta2 release. Thanks for your bug report. - Kelvin --- Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems Inc. >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date

Re: [JAVA3D] Efficient Animations

2001-12-17 Thread Kevin J. Duling
Title: Efficient Animations I'm going with the bone hierarchy route.  Morph was very attractive, but too memory intensive.  Think of a q2 model with 200 or so keyframes.  That's 200 instances of the model geometry loaded into memory for only one "thing"  If every animated model looked the sa

Re: [JAVA3D] Memory consumption by textures

2001-12-17 Thread Ewan Borland
Hi, Thanks to everyone who's been trying to help me sort this out. I'm feeling slightly silly now but still have a problem. Each texture FULLY (sorry about the previously inaccurate suggestions) expanded is : 640x480 full RGB 900K So taking 8 textures per model that's 7MB. Assuming each image i

Re: [JAVA3D] Memory consumption by textures

2001-12-17 Thread Giles
('tis Justin Couch replying on Alan's computer) Ewan Borland wrote: >slightly silly now but still have a problem. Each texture FULLY (sorry about >the previously inaccurate suggestions) expanded is : > >640x480 >full RGB >900K > First point: 640x480 is a really bad size to use. For most efficien

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Reiss
I don't recall sending it before but I may have. The main reason I am pointing it out now is that the version on J3D says version 1.2 and has numerous errors and the version on the link I provided says 1.7 and it has many corrections. At 06:45 AM 12/18/2001 +1100, you wrote: >Eric Reiss wro

Re: [JAVA3D] How to view Stereo3D display

2001-12-17 Thread Hong
Kenneth: I think what you are asking is "how to display objects using java3d in stereo mode" and the following is the answer to this question. If you just want to display Stereo3D you can specify the option -Dj3d.stereo=REQUIRED and you should be able to see the 3d effect.

[JAVA3D] lights

2001-12-17 Thread kani A.
Dear Friends, Thanks for the help regarding the rotation. I solved it.Now, as I rotate two objects around one another I like to give 2 different colors. I use directional lights to give colors,but same color is seen on both the objects. Iam confused , is there any other method? Since Iam a begin

[JAVA3D] FlexPorter, Animation

2001-12-17 Thread Guang Bin Liu
Hi Friends: Thank you for providing the code. However, when I tried to run your program, I found that a lot of files were missing. For example, none of the following files could be located: import com.xith.client.animation.skinbones.*; import com.xith.worldbuilder.*; import com.xith.client.eng

Re: [JAVA3D] obj coordinates

2001-12-17 Thread Justin Couch
thorsten topol wrote: > I would like to get my 3d object coordinates in order > to put its name (a text3d) on its barycenter. > Do you know how to get these coordinates? Sounds like you want to know the object's coordinates in the world coordinate system. You can find this out by calling getLoca

Re: [JAVA3D] The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ

2001-12-17 Thread Justin Couch
Eric Reiss wrote: > Andreas Junghanns maintains an up-to-date version at: > http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~andreas/math/matrfaq_latest.html Changes made and should be available on the website within the next 10 minutes or so. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Fr