[JAVA3D] Réf. : Re: [JAVA3D] Réf. : [JAVA3D] More X3D M6

2003-01-13 Thread Jacky Rymasz
Thx Justin ;) About this: > Finally I got a white sphere with the text under it but I got this > Exception: > Warning: IO Error reading external file http://www.web3d.org > :80/TaskGroups/x3d/translation/examples/earth-topo.png > www.web3d.org > java.net.UnknownHostException: www.web3d.org Eeeck

[JAVA3D] Réf. : Re: [JAVA3D] problem with View clipping

2003-01-13 Thread Jacky Rymasz
I tested it as well with only 30 spheres cos my computer is old and could stand the 300 (I'm at work). It seems to work fine with me. I'm using JDK v1.4.0.3 and J3D v1.3. Jack

[JAVA3D] RE: [JAVA3D] Réf. : Re: [JAVA3D] problem with View clipping

2003-01-13 Thread Nitin.Jain
I'll test it with this particular JDK version. However I do not think this could be a JDK version issue. While testing the program you have to make sure that the spheres which you add are in such a way that in the initial view they are totally clipped. If the spheres are partially clipped then the

[JAVA3D] A note for those sending private emails to me

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Assorted characters of the Java3D list. It's been probably 12 months since I last sent out an email like this, so it's time I just sent a reminder considering the recent state of my inbox. I get a lot of mail from a lot of people asking me to help them solve their Java3D problems. While I apprecia

[JAVA3D] AW: [JAVA3D] Runninh problem

2003-01-13 Thread Florin Herinean
Well, I don't know why you get this message, but I can tell you what happened when I got the message: 1. First time when I saw it, was related to my default installed video driver for w2k. It seems that the default video driver doesn't support the opengl version which java3d uses. It vanished when

[JAVA3D] Multitexture / TextureUnitState

2003-01-13 Thread Alessandro Borges
Hi ! I was trying to aply a reflection with TextureCubeMap over a simple texture. But I was unable to get the desired result. TextureCubeMap needs a transform to correctly change the reflection, but seens the TextureUnitState only allow texture transform operations on TextureUnitState[0]. So I fo

Re: [JAVA3D] A note for those sending private emails to me

2003-01-13 Thread John Wright
I think this applies for many of us. We are often willing to try and help out when possible (especially when closely related to work we are doing) but in general this is "extra" and there is no way we can provide individual support for everyone on every question. So, don't be offended if your e-m

[JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread Donald Day
I recently purchased the book titled 'Java 3D API Jump Start' (Walsh, Gehringer). In the book a URL is referenced that is claimed to have material mentioned in the text. Nav.ing to the URL "web3dbooks.com/Java..." results in a redirection to Amazon.com. While I do use Amazon I was hoping for

[JAVA3D] (X3D) Re: [JAVA3D] A note for those sending private emails to me

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. McCutcheon
Is there a discussion board for the XJ3D/X3D stuff? I'm trying to make this X3D stuff work and it's been VERY difficult. If we had a public discussion board, atleast those of us trying to use this toolkit might have some common problems, and some common solutions. Maybe someone can setup a discu

Re: [JAVA3D] (X3D) Re: [JAVA3D] A note for those sending private emails to me

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: Is there a discussion board for the XJ3D/X3D stuff? The main one is the source list run by the Web3d consortium. For more info: http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/source/ Also, where is the bugzilla for XJ3D? (I forgot). http://bugzilla.xj3d.org Anyway, I feel th

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread P. Flavin
Donald Day wrote: > > I recently purchased the book titled > > 'Java 3D API Jump Start' (Walsh,Gehringer). > > In the book a URL is referenced that is claimed > to have material mentioned in the text. > > Nav.ing to the URL > > "web3dbooks.com/Java..." > > results in a redirection to Amazon.c

[JAVA3D] Pick Result Capability

2003-01-13 Thread Brobbey,Isaac (neuron)
Dear all: still trying to fix my pickTool problem, but i am not sure about something which capability in the pickTool class should I have to set in order to avoid an exception like: javax.media.j3d.CapabilityNotSetException: Shape3D: no capability to get geometry at javax.media.j3d.Shape3D.numG

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D M6 Release

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: I suspect that if I can hack the X3DConstants so that GENERAL_SYSTEM_ID_3_0 points to /DTD it will work properly. Note that this is with the .tar download of M6. The question is, why should you need to do that in the first place? Your classpath should be already po

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread Donald Day
Hi Paul, Sigh, I feel a bit quick on the trigger on this one. If seems I had the url (after the host/dns portion) capitalized where it shouldn't have been. Thanks for help. dwd - Original Message - From: "P. Flavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13,

Re: [JAVA3D] More X3D

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: How come this simple model does not work? I keep getting an ugly exception below. Funny thing is, if I replace the url="flaresmall.jpg" with url='"flaresmall.jpg"' is parses but nothing shows up on the sphere. What am I doing wrong? This may be a bug in our handlin

Re: [JAVA3D] Triangulating irregular grid of points.

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Nathan Bower wrote: The extracted data is an irregular grid of point3d. My problem is how to correctly triangulate this set of point3d. The point3ds This is a fairly standard issue in 3D graphics. Do a web search for Deluany Triangulation and start reading the thousands of papers and tutorials

Re: [JAVA3D] Local Coords difference from VRML

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Philip J Colbert wrote: In the VRML model we are using the to allow for some interaction we grab the local points that basically fall in the range 0.3 to -0.3 but when the model is loaded into a Java Scene the local coordinate points are not in the same range! They are approx about half the val

Re: [JAVA3D] Roam tiled terrain data question

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
I am still fiddling with the Roam code of code.j3d.org. I am using SimpleTiledTerrainData. This class has a method setActiveBounds(Rectangle bounds) which is not implemented yet. The documentation says it should limit the access to an area of the terrain. Correct. That method doesn't need to be i

[JAVA3D] Re : Re: [JAVA3D] Question For positionpathinterpolator, rotpospathinterpolator

2003-01-13 Thread 이기환
Thanks!   I understood knot,quaternion concept.   ^.^      

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread P. Flavin
If you're happy I'm happy too, but I did check the url and the base url before posting and I was directed to amazon.com too. The site is a bit messed up, it might have been hacked, in either case it confirms that Aaron Walsh knows neither the web nor 3d. ;^( http://web3dbooks.com led to a

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread Hans Horn
Has anybody tried to contact the author (Aaron Walsh) in this regard? If yes, what is his take? I do happen to have downloaded a copy of Walsh's example code way back when I first bought the book (right after it was published), but I do not want to broadcast it to the community in case there are l

Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D API Jump Start

2003-01-13 Thread Raj N. Vaidya
The Java 3D Explorer code should be available here: http://www.web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart/Java3DExplorer.html === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INT

Re: [JAVA3D] Multitexture / TextureUnitState

2003-01-13 Thread Kelvin Chung
Alessandro Borges wrote: Hi ! I was trying to aply a reflection with TextureCubeMap over a simple texture. But I was unable to get the desired result. TextureCubeMap needs a transform to correctly change the reflection, but seens the TextureUnitState only allow texture transform operations on Te

[JAVA3D] j3d.org viewfrustum question

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Kral
hi all! as far as i know the viewfrustum represents, after invoking viewingPlatformMoved(), the frustum for the *last* rendered frame. i've noticed that there is a method called manualPlatformMove(). from the docs i see that this can be used to reorient the frustum. i'm doing the following: in a

[JAVA3D] Java 3D FAQ Weekly Posting (13 Jan 2003)

2003-01-13 Thread The Java 3D FAQ
The Java 3D Frequently Asked Questions list for Monday January 13 2003 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 th

Re: [JAVA3D] j3d.org viewfrustum question

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Holger Kral wrote: now, how can i modify the frustum that it represents the newly created viewtransform, that i can do propper clipping with no framedelay? You need to use the manualPlatformMove() method to do this. Set up the matrix with the current location and orientation information and fee

[JAVA3D] "Uncaught error fetching image" ??

2003-01-13 Thread Lévan Sardjevéladzé
Hello I got this error in a big J3D program I can't quote here... I don't even understand what this error can mean ! Uncaught error fetching image: java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getConnection(URLImageSource.java:102) at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource

Re: [JAVA3D] j3d.org viewfrustum question

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Kral
Justin Couch wrote: Holger Kral wrote: now, how can i modify the frustum that it represents the newly created viewtransform, that i can do propper clipping with no framedelay? You need to use the manualPlatformMove() method to do this. Set up the matrix with the current location and orientati

Re: [JAVA3D] "Uncaught error fetching image" ??

2003-01-13 Thread Lévan Sardjevéladzé
Don't waste your time answering my question, I've fixed it and it has nothing to do with J3D (it's linked to Toolkit.getImage(String s) - by the way that's strange this method shouldn't raise any exception when the file name is not correct !!)

Re: [JAVA3D] "Uncaught error fetching image" ??

2003-01-13 Thread Mona Wong-Barnum
> I don't even understand what this error can mean ! > > Uncaught error fetching image: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getConnection(URLImageSource.java:102) It is telling you that you have a variable that is null and you are trying to use it on

[JAVA3D] Help: wglCreateContext Failed: The handle is invalid.

2003-01-13 Thread Hong Cao
Hi, All, There is an error that frequently happen with Java3D openGL version, but we don't know how it happend, and when it would happen. When you first create 3D, sometimes you got this error Then the canvas3D went blank, you got this message repeatedly: wglCreateContext Failed: The handle is i

Re: [JAVA3D] "Uncaught error fetching image" ??

2003-01-13 Thread Lévan Sardjevéladzé
>> Uncaught error fetching image: >> java.lang.NullPointerException >> at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getConnection(URLImageSource.java:102) > >It is telling you that you have a variable that is null and you are >trying to use it on line 102 of your URLImageSource.java file. Well,

[JAVA3D] Test

2003-01-13 Thread Ruprecht Helms
only a test, please ignore -- Ruprecht Helms IT-Service und Softwareentwicklung Tel/Fax.: +49[0]7621 16 99 16 Homepage: http://www.rheyn.de email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ==

Re: [JAVA3D] "Uncaught error fetching image" ??

2003-01-13 Thread Mona Wong-Barnum
> The problem is, there is a method inside a Sun package that do not raise exceptions properly. I see, the alternative is to not to count on other functions to check for null but check it yourself before you submit the argument to another function (: Cheers, Mona

[JAVA3D] Canvas3D mess up with swing

2003-01-13 Thread Hong Cao
Hi, All, My program got problem when first creating 3D content. Instead of getting 3D image on Canvas3D, we get image of other part of the GUI frame on the Canvas3D. If we resize the frame, 3D image appears and everything becomes fine. I rememger last week there was an email talking about J3D mes

Re: [JAVA3D] CubeMapTexture issues

2003-01-13 Thread Kelvin Chung
Hi Alessandro, There is a bug in your cubemap example, It should use, genNormalMap = new TexCoordGeneration(texGenMode, TexCoordGeneration.TEXTURE_COORDINATE_3); instead of genNormalMap = new TexCoordGeneration(texGenMode, TexCoordGeneration.TEXTURE_COORDINATE_2); for Reflection

[JAVA3D] com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.NormalGenerator

2003-01-13 Thread Mona Wong-Barnum
It seems that when com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.NormalGenerator.generateNormal() runs out of memory, it doesn't return and doesn't throw any exception. Does anyone know of a workaround? I would like to trap this condition and do something. All help is appreciated. Sincerel

[JAVA3D] ? Behavior WakeupOnElapsedTime ?

2003-01-13 Thread ZACZEK, MARIUSZ P. (JSC-DM) (NASA)
Hi, This is what I declare in my behavior for wakeup conditions: int samplingtime = 1; WakeupOnElapsedTime conditions = new WakeupOnElapsedTime(samplingtime); I notice this situation...when I run my code I have my behavior update the value inside a textbox in a swing portion. BU

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D M6 Release

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. McCutcheon
Hmm... I'm just clueless. I'm modeling my x3d load class after the browser loading code. It uses: VRMLUniverse universe = new VRMLUniverse(event_model,overlayHandler); WorldLoader loader = worldLoaderManager.fetchLoader(); InputSource is = new InputSource(file); VRMLScene parsed_scene = loader.

[JAVA3D] lighting calculation

2003-01-13 Thread Haiquan Yang
Hello, everyone, I have a question about Java3D, could you help me? I found that the calculation of lighting in Java3D depend on the view-axis, this cause some problems when I deal with some images from cameras with different view-axis. I want to composite these images into another image

[JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" Works with Sun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread P. Flavin
Problem files with the "new" X3D Loaders often are NO PROBLEM with the old, reliable Sun VRML Loaders. The problem Jacky Rymasz had with Web3d.org's "HelloWorld" X3d / VRML World is not a problem with the Sun VRML Loaders ( loading the original, equivilent VRML file ). Problem with new X3d Lo

Re: [JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" Works with Sun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. McCutcheon
Can someone ban this guy from the list? P. Flavin wrote: Problem files with the "new" X3D Loaders often are NO PROBLEM with the old, reliable Sun VRML Loaders. === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and incl

Re: [JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" WorkswithSun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread Brad Christiansen
Just introduce your own ban. Its from P.Flavin, its atacking the work of the x3d guys for no apparent reason, ignore and delete. Works for me. "Michael P. McCutcheon" wrote: > > Can someone ban this guy from the list? > > P. Flavin wrote: > > Problem files with the "new" X3D Loaders often are >

Re: [JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" Works with Sun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: Can someone ban this guy from the list? Oh, is the moron still around here? Email filters are your friend. Unforunately he's still out on day release it seems on USENET spinning the usual totally clueless crap. But, Mozilla's filters are working on newsgroups now, so

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D M6 Release

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: I'm just clueless. I'm modeling my x3d load class after the browser loading code. Therein lies your problem - it has nothing to do with the code. It is the CLASSPATH settings that you have wrong, not the code. Please fix your classpath as I've been suggesting over

Re: [JAVA3D] j3d.org viewfrustum question

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Holger Kral wrote: if i do a fast rotation via usercontrols i still see the patches of my terrain 'popping' in at the border of the screen. if the above is the right way to do the manualplatformmove, then it may be a bug in my application The code you're posting looks right to me so I guess

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D M6 Release

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. McCutcheon
Alrighty...I'll look into the claspath. Here is what I did though... I took all of the jars in the M6 distro, extracted them all (with ANT) and put all of the stuff into one jar (j3dall.jar). That is the only thing I classpath to. Could this screw it up? ( I guess the answer is yes :) ) Jus

Re: [JAVA3D] Xj3D M6 Release

2003-01-13 Thread Justin Couch
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: all of the stuff into one jar (j3dall.jar). That is the only thing I classpath to. Could this screw it up? ( I guess the answer is yes :) ) No, because the DTDs are not kept in JAR files. They're in a separate DTD directory that is part of the TAR file. The HowTo

Re: [JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" Works with Sun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread P. Flavin
Michael P. McCutcheon wrote: > Can someone ban this guy from the list? P. Flavin wrote: Problem files with the "new" X3D Loaders often are NO PROBLEM with the old, reliable Sun VRML Loaders. Ban people because they use Sun's Software ? Sun's Java3d Fly Through ---

Re: [JAVA3D] X3D M6 Problems: Web3d.org's "HelloWorld.wrl" Works with Sun's VRML Loaders

2003-01-13 Thread P. Flavin
Nasa Uses Sun's VRML Loaders, & I do too. | | Loading VRML using VRML97 Loader | | This example creates a command called | GEOMVRML97 which loads in a | VRML file using vrml97.jar . | | Select the desired VRML file to | display and press the start applet | b