[JAVA3D] Getting an Image out of Java3d ?

1999-10-01 Thread Uwe Trostheide
Hello All, is it possible to get an Image (e.g .jpg or .gif) out of a java3d program ? For example : a user gives all necessary data (objects to be displayed, position etc) to an application and get back a picture how it would look like... If somebody got hints or even better an example for it,

Re: [JAVA3D] ??? Where does this bug come from ???

1999-10-01 Thread Heiko Gottschling
>I ran this program on a Pentium II 300MHZ 128MBram 8GBhard under Windows 98. >Installed is jdk1.2.2 standard edition with the latest alpha release of >java3d runtime. The square appears a square when the colorcube is >uncommented. So I could not find the bug. This is interesting, since I am us

[JAVA3D] Are there any plans to make Java 3D a core API in a future Java Release?

1999-10-01 Thread Your Name
Does anybody know if there are any such plans? Tom Magee === 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

[JAVA3D] Java3D 1.2

1999-10-01 Thread Burns Boaz
The 1.2 version of Java3D contains some new features I would like to use - unfortunately the 1.2 Alpha1 version is missing most of those. Could somebody at Sun please tell me when a more 'complete' version of 1.2 will be available? Thanks, -Burns

[JAVA3D] JAVA3D INTO JavaBean?

1999-10-01 Thread Tristan Wang
1. Does anyone outthere have any experience creating Java3D beans, esp. how to serialize the pieces in a 3d program, for example, scene, transform3d, transformTG...? Some of the transformTG in my program need to have ALLOW_WRITE, ALLOW_READ on. I followed the javaBean tutorial and modified one of

[JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better?

1999-10-01 Thread Bob Gray
I am writing a molecular viewer type program with Java 3D. I allow up to 2,000 cylinders (bonds) to be displayed and about 500 spheres (atoms). I wrote my own cylinder geometry objects using quadarrays. When I display the maximum number of cylinders, performance is very poor. (Actually, perform

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking Points and Lines

1999-10-01 Thread Adam Belmont
Hi Desiree, I think it was your post that I was referring to... Thank you also for the reply Doug. I also tried to change the way my points are displayed to used. Rather that displaying them using PointArray geometry , I decided to use a QuadArray and display a point as a small square. There's

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better?

1999-10-01 Thread Steve Pietrowicz
One thing you can try is to cut down on the number of polygons in the scene by not using the default values for the cylinder and sphere subdivisions. The defaults are high, and you can get away with using much lower numbers. eg: cylinder = new Cylinder(radius, height, Cylinder.GENERATE_N

[JAVA3D] Virtual Input Device problem

1999-10-01 Thread Juan José Abenza Moreno
 Hello.   I'm building a virtual world and I'm trying to use the VirtualDevice implementation that comes with the examples of Java3D. I don't know why, but using the code below I have a problem on run-time.      // The InputDevice must be initialized before registering it    // with

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better?

1999-10-01 Thread Adam Belmont
It could also be your graphics card (Assuming you are on WinNT/98). Some cards that were basically designed to make DirectX games go fast can't do hardware acceleration in a window. So it's possible that your CPU is doing the work and not the graphics card. At home I have a Permedia 8Meg card and

Re: [JAVA3D] HELP!

1999-10-01 Thread Larry James
Now I'm new to this, but In the tutorial at... http://www.sdsc.edu/~nadeau/Courses/VR99/ It goes over loading "OBJ" files into you scene. I imagine you could do the same with DXF (AutoCad) files too. I haven't tried a VRML loader yet (I'm sure there must be one). You may have to convert y

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better?

1999-10-01 Thread Philip Taylor
answers inline below -Original Message- From: Adam Belmont mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better? It could also be your graphics card (Assuming you are on WinNT/98). Some card

Re: [JAVA3D] Performance issues. How to do it better?

1999-10-01 Thread Adam Belmont
Thanks for the corrections and much better explaination. Philip Taylor writes: > answers inline below > < > all modern cards, read in the last 3 years, except 3dfx Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 > can do 3D hardware acceleration in a window. > > Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 are what are known as "secondary" ca

[JAVA3D] Bug in Lighting?

1999-10-01 Thread Tim Uren
Hi everyone,   Has anyone succeeded in changing the scope of a light at run - time?   I have set the necessary capability bits, (Light.ALLOW_SCOPE_READ, Light.ALLOW_SCOPE_WRITE) and then added the light to the scene.   Although the getCapability() method for these two bits returns true at run

Re: [JAVA3D] Ask again: Run jav3D applet

1999-10-01 Thread anupam
hi, i installed run time files in jre as well as ext java console of jre in ie5 gives error NO J3D INSALLED IN JAVA.PATH.LIB any solutions anupam - Original Message - From: Roberto Speranza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:43 AM Subject: Re