Re: [JAVA3D] Rotating one cylinder out of multiple objects

2002-04-18 Thread Mehrtash Babadi
   Hi, Welcome to this mailing list :)        If you want to work independently with your knob beside your other objects, you should isolate it in a Group;    easily, construct and temporary group and add your Shape3D to it and then add the group to the parent group;    I believe you should code yo

[JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Henry Sowizral ?

2002-04-18 Thread Claus Giesenberg
Hi Mark ! Mark, thanks for the reference. I know his report and wanted to speak therefore also with henry. At the moment I examine possibilities and risks for the commitment of Java3D in a CAVE for an company/university. The company/university has the idea to implement a "Virtual Protoyping of M

Re: [JAVA3D] Rotating one cylinder out of multiple objects

2002-04-18 Thread Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski
Use 2 different TransformGroups: TG1 -- TG2 -- Shape3D (TG2 is child of TG1and Shape3D is child of TG2) Use TG1 for positioning the cylinder and TG2 for the rotation around the cylinder axes (Y axis). The compound transformation will be rendered, with TG2 as the first transformation followed by TG

Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Henry Sowizral ?

2002-04-18 Thread Justin Couch
Claus Giesenberg wrote: > At the moment I examine possibilities and risks for the commitment of Java3D > in a CAVE for an company/university. > The company/university has the idea to implement a "Virtual Protoyping of > Mechatronic Systems" in a CAVE. Such a realization needs however very much >

[JAVA3D] CAVES-give me one on a PC

2002-04-18 Thread Alex Terrazas
Let's make sure we change the subject of this thread to CAVES so others can search. By the way, Sowrizral apparently is doing something unrelated to 3D graphics even. Regarding the CAVES. The issue for me is whether I can run it on something other than Sun (especially PC). Not that I have anyt

Re: [JAVA3D] CAVES-give me one on a PC

2002-04-18 Thread Justin Couch
Alex Terrazas wrote: > By the way, Sowrizral apparently is doing > something unrelated to 3D graphics even. IIRC - gigabit wireless networks (telco grade stuff, not 802.11). > That said, the PC so far can only handle 2 > screens--which I have running and it is > pretty nice. Depends on what yo

[JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Tina Manoharan
Hello, I tried to use both the NCSA's CAD Loader as well as Starfire's 3DS Loader. But, I have 2 problems (1) I cannot see the object in my Java3D Scene. It seems to be loading the nodes though (debug statements). I am able to view these DXF & 3DS

Re: [JAVA3D] CAVES-give me one on a PC

2002-04-18 Thread chris thorne
Hi Justin, I have not forgotten you. I had two other little offline tasks to do that were urgent - the second I will finish niext week. I think I am over half way through with the tiledterraindata stuff. Had to do more thinking/coding on the Rez side to make it fit. Chris > Well, I wouldn't c

Re: [JAVA3D] CAVES-give me one on a PC

2002-04-18 Thread evolutie
In Europe I know of at least 2 organisations making efforts for a low cost linux pc CAVE. Don't know how far they are yet. You can visit the ARS ELECTRONICA futurelab website and look for ARSBOX http://futurelab.aec.at/ or check Sara http://www.sara.nl/ evo - Original Message - From: "Al

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread John Wright
Tina, You mention that our loader is giving an error on trying to load the textures. What format are the texture files (JPG? GIF?)? Or perhaps are you missing the texture files? A common problem we've heard from users is people trying to view "invisible" objects (i.e. we don't create any Shape

[JAVA3D] Loading vrml files

2002-04-18 Thread Savas Cetin
Hi, I'm writing a 3D-Viewer who can load .obj and .vrml files . If I'm loading .obj files, the objects are centralized in the middle of my viewer. But, and that's my problem, when I'm loading .vrml files, the objects are sometimes very small or sometimes somewhere in the viewer, so that I have

[JAVA3D] Loading vrml-files

2002-04-18 Thread Savas Cetin
Hi, I'm writing a 3D-Viewer who can load .obj and .vrml files . If I'm loading .obj files, the objects are centralized in the middle of my viewer. But, and that's my problem, when I'm loading .vrml files, the objects are sometimes very small or sometimes somewhere in the viewer, so that I have

Re: [JAVA3D] CAVES-give me one on a PC

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Gordon
> Regarding the CAVES. The issue for me is > whether I can run it on something other > than Sun (especially PC). Not that I have > anything against Sun technology--in fact-- > I am totally apolitical regarding hardware > and operating systems. But PCs are inexpensive- > and for me to sell a CAV

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Scott Mobile
With the StarFire loader, you can specifiy an optional texture file path, look at the readme for more info. And as John says, your shapes have to have materials applied to them in 3DS before you export them from Max. That confused me for awhile too. Scott - Original Message - From: "Joh

Re: [JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Henry Sowizral ?

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Gordon
> At the moment I examine possibilities and risks for the commitment of Java3D > in a CAVE for an company/university. > The company/university has the idea to implement a "Virtual Protoyping of > Mechatronic Systems" in a CAVE. Such a realization needs however very much > high orders since systems

[JAVA3D] SceneGraphIO - why not serialization ?

2002-04-18 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
I have just read short docs about SceneGraphIO (j3d format). I understand stuff with create/resolve references, but why just normal serialization is not used ? Wouldn't it be easier to use serialization and manually serialize tricky fields and add some post-serialization hooks to initialize neede

[JAVA3D]

2002-04-18 Thread Zak Nixon
Group- I am trying something that I need some help on. I have the overall scene, and I have objects that will need to be oriented in the scene. How do I orient these objects according to thier own coordinate axis'. Or what is the easiest way to orient objects with respect to the center of

[JAVA3D] Orientation

2002-04-18 Thread Zak Nixon
Sorry no subject in the last message. -Original Message- From: zak nixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:51 AM To: 'Discussion list for Java 3D API' Subject: Group- I am trying something that I need some help on. I have the overall scene, and I have

Re: [JAVA3D] Changes after compilation...

2002-04-18 Thread Doug Twilleager
Serializing and transmitting compiled scene graph objects is not a good idea - ie: undefined results. And, in this case, no you could not change the appearance on the second computer. It is still compiled. Doug Twilleager Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems >Subject: [JAVA3D] Changes after compilat

Re: [JAVA3D] Simple example of image plate alight platform geometry

2002-04-18 Thread Enrique Dumas
Hello, your sample is very interesting ! At this time I'm trying to create some labels overlayed on the screen which the text and background color can be changed at runtime. So as I have to refresh my label often and to minimise the memory consumption, I created a "simple" quadArray with Text2D in

Re: [JAVA3D] SceneGraphIO - why not serialization ?

2002-04-18 Thread Doug Twilleager
It could be done that way. But, for this feature and others, we decided to implement it as a utility first. This was to make sure everything worked well. We could eventually fold it back into the core as a speciallized implementation of serialization. But, the current way of doing it gives us

Re: [JAVA3D] SceneGraphIO - why not serialization ?

2002-04-18 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Doug Twilleager wrote: > It could be done that way. But, for this feature and others, we > decided to implement it as a utility first. This was to make sure > everything worked well. We could eventually fold it back into the > core as a speciallized implementation of serialization. But, the >

Re: [JAVA3D] Multi-texturing problem

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Forrester
Hey Boris - this problem should be put onto a faq somewhere. The problem stems from the fact that you aren't actually multitexturing in this case, you want to create different material groups on the objects, and there are three main ways to accomplish this - (1) Uv tricks. Simply make a 256x256

Re: [JAVA3D] Spheres

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Forrester
Yeah, i'm a bit confused here - why do people need so many spheres? I'm sorry, but it just seems like inefficient program design to need 10,000 seperate spheres drawing in a scene at once. At this scale, it seems like a particle system, and i'm pretty sure you could get huge speedups by not having

[JAVA3D] [Java3D] Setting TransparencyAttributes

2002-04-18 Thread Mojtaba
Hello, Just a small thing I came across. I thought it might be useful to get it out there. I am setting the transparency attribute of an object to 0.6 and behind this object is a wall with a texture on it (therefore, I should see the textured wall through the object). However, I had to do the fol

[JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Tina Manoharan
Hello John & Scott, Sorry, about the previous large attachments. I did not mean to do that. These are the links to the same files: (1) http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~ceetm2/Java3D/chrysler.3ds (2) http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~ceetm2/Java3D/chrysler.wrl I downloaded the "chrysler.3ds" file from a website

[JAVA3D] Q on Primitive Flags

2002-04-18 Thread Yan Wang
Hi I'm creating my own geometries by subclassing com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.Primitive. I'm wondering how the info of primFlags is saved in primitives, since no attributes of Primitive are listed in API docs. Is there any more detailed docs/source codes of Primitive available? Thanks. Yan Wan

Re: [JAVA3D] Q on Primitive Flags

2002-04-18 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Yan Wang wrote: > Hi > > I'm creating my own geometries by subclassing com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.Primitive. > I'm wondering how the info of primFlags is saved in primitives, since no attributes >of Primitive are listed in API docs. > Is there any more detailed docs/source codes of Primitive avai

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Scott Mobile
Just an observation, but it looks like a problem with filename conventions... I think Max converts texture filenames to 8.3 format on export, and those textures clearly aren't 8.3. This is my experience with my older version of Max, but that could be part of it. Of course, you can't really do an

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Tina Manoharan
Thanks Scott for helping me out. As the files are large I have put them at this website: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~ceetm2/Java3D/ You will find: (1) chrysler.3ds This is the 3DS file that I downloaded. There were no textures (images) at that site just this 3DS file. I am able to view this 3DS

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Scott Mobile
Ahh, those textures need to be present to work... there must be textures applied to it, or they wouldn't be showing up in the loader output. I can load the file, and re-save it without textures, and email it back to ya as a 3DS file. Scott - Original Message - From: "Tina Manoharan" <[EM

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Silvano Malfatti
Hi Tina.. I am having problems with DXF too.. But I don´t know how to insert the DXF files into my Universe java3D... did you know what loader I must user... because I tried with DXF_Loader, Loader_DXF, ModelLoader and didn´t get sucess... this error happend.. Do not call this directly Ex

Re: [JAVA3D] Spheres

2002-04-18 Thread Nitin.Jain
Hi Chris, We are dealing with proteins here which is much complex and compact shape than DNA. It is very much possible that a user zooms out to a level where he can view the whole molecule on the screen. I agree to you that some of the sphere will be at such a scale where they are equivalent to a

Re: [JAVA3D] 3DS & DXF Loader

2002-04-18 Thread Darren Vollmer
Java3d-interest list, Is there any way to set this list up to prevent people from shoving multi-mb messages down everyones throats? There are multiple other options for people to make files available without attaching them to posts. If broadband was available in my area, I would get it. But i

[JAVA3D] Canvas disappearing (goes blank/grey)

2002-04-18 Thread Roger Berggren
Hi, I'm trying to create an application using Swing and Java 3D. My problem is that it seems as if the Canvas3D stops rendering when I resize or try to open a file using the standard file opener. It's even more strange than that. If you resize the window and releases the mouse, everything looks