Re: [JAVA3D] Graphical tool

2000-03-15 Thread Ronan O'Driscoll
Question for another newbie: What is the best way to import VRML to Java3D? I'm having problems getting it going... Thanks > -Original Message- > From: Discussion list for Java 3D API > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Asish Law > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:50 AM > To: [EMAIL P

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet reading from file?

2000-03-15 Thread Stefano Scarpanti
At present, this is the situation I can notice: I need to load images, sounds and texts from the disk of the original server (the one I run the applet from, the one there is the web page in, OK?). Using an "internal address", viz a parameter in the html, as in the following: in html and in

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet reading from file?

2000-03-15 Thread Jay Scherer
I think the point everyone is missing is that this will really only work in a controlled environment, but if he's writing an applet, then he wants it to work in a lot of different situations, and setting the security level in your browser isn't going to cut it. Either read it from the server it w

Re: [JAVA3D] Mixing Heavy/Lightweight Components

2000-03-15 Thread Ingo Brunberg
Hi Juergen, I have searched for it too, but could not find it. I think it simply isn't there. Anyway, if you compile your sources with jdk1.3, you will notice, that setLightWeightPopupEnabled is no longer marked as deprecated. Regards, Ingo Brunberg > Hello all ! > > Has anybody out there fo

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet reading from file?

2000-03-15 Thread Sherri Dunlap
Asish; Does IE use a different security protocol than Netscape? My applet runs fine on Netscape but not on IE and I have no trouble running other applets on IE...just mine :( I've downgraded all the security options in IE, but still I get the javaruntime security error! Sherri Asish Law wrote:

Re: [JAVA3D] BEGINER

2000-03-15 Thread Fabio Roberto de Miranda
Based on your main requirement (portability) I'd suggest you to use JBuilder Foundation. It is free (www.inprise.com/jbuilder) and, as far as I know, is the most portable of the full-featured Java IDEs (Windows, Solaris and Linux). There's no JBuilder for the SGI, you could develop in any one of

[JAVA3D] Multi viewer

2000-03-15 Thread Christophe DUPUIS
Hello, I want to discus why Java 3D is limited for multi views usage ? By Multi views, I say a universe with multi ViewPlatform (View, Canvas3d...) rendering on screen, like a XY view, YZ view, Perspective view. I explain the limitation I see: -The Behavior node like Billboard, LOD work only w

Re: [JAVA3D] Mixing Heavy/Lightweight Components

2000-03-15 Thread Jose Gonzalez
Hi, What version of Java are you using I have version 1.3 installed and cannot find the comments you talk about... Regards Jose Juergen Neubauer wrote: > Hello all ! > > Has anybody out there found the "setToolTipWindowUsePolicy(int)" ?? > > This is in the documentation - T

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML 2.0 loader problem

2000-03-15 Thread ov Ole Vilmann
Thanks Doug The new loader seems to load my files fine ! Thank you !!! The loader even seems to be very fault tolerant ! Ole Vilmann Doug wrote: >Here is my latest development jarfile. It matches the latest CVS source. If >your part still fails to load, send me the part and I'll figure out w

Re: [JAVA3D] java consolle in IE

2000-03-15 Thread Evan Drumwright
"Osborne, Richard N" wrote: > Yeah, the console is only available in IE for versions 5 -> up. Any versions > before that does not include the java console. You may want to consider the > java plugin since it comes with a console. > > -Richard > http://www.cyberkreations.com/kreationsedge > >

Re: [JAVA3D] [java3d-vrml] How does Rotation field work ?

2000-03-15 Thread Don Casteel
it's not as simple as you think, the rotation occurs about the vector relitive to the X,Y & Z axies, the rotation isn't about any of the "Main" axies at all (unless you give it a main axis as a vector). For instance: rotation 0 1 0 3.14159 will rotate you 180deg about the Y axis Transform

Re: [JAVA3D] java consolle in IE

2000-03-15 Thread Julian
the IE java console works in version 4 and 5. -- julian === 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] Picking woes

2000-03-15 Thread Peder C. Andersen
Has anyone noticed a problem with the picking related node attributes in J3d v1.2b1? It seems that after setting a group node as unpickable (setPickable(false);) its children are still being returned to picking behaviors. According to the 1.2 API spec: public void setPickable(boolean p

Re: [JAVA3D] VRML 2.0 loader problem

2000-03-15 Thread Doug Gehringer
Glad it solves your problems. Doug === 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] and include in the b

Re: [JAVA3D] policy tool

2000-03-15 Thread Sherri Dunlap
This is VERY helpful! Thanks for putting this info out! Sherri Ronan O'Driscoll wrote: > With java1.2 there is a new policytool, a little gui that allows you > complete control over permissions and on which particular locations to grant > them. Check out > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial

Re: [JAVA3D] Picking woes

2000-03-15 Thread Olivier fillon
I have found the same: strange behaviour but not new: was already there in 1.1.3 It used to be only necessary to set the pickable false at the top of a branch , now it seems it is not enough and you need to set it to false at all levels of the branch looks like only the immediate children are aff

[JAVA3D] billboard behaviour

2000-03-15 Thread Carlos Proal
Hi all, i have sent a previous mail, but it never arrives so here goes again. here is what i want to do: Suppose you are walking around a car with the price poster above the roof, I want that person always can see the price, so i must rotate and translate the scene but the poster must be rotated

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet reading from file?

2000-03-15 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Nope, Nope, Nope!!! Well, u might be certainly right about NN's built-in JVM (1.1.5), but this definitely DOES work with Java Plug-in (1.2). And this is proven in practice (i load all resources from one file via jar: protocol - see the demo at http://www.arcadia.spb.ru/java3d/). No additional pri

Re: [JAVA3D] Graphical tool

2000-03-15 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Doug Gehringer has recently posted the loader extension here. -=V=- >---<=>---< Join in Java community now! http://JavaCafe.VirtualAve.net/ >---<=>---< In your previous letter u wrote: ROD> Question for another

[JAVA3D] Eye position

2000-03-15 Thread W.Krugiolka - GMX
How can I change an eye position ??? Thank you for all the information in advance. Wojciech Krugiolka === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST".

Re: [JAVA3D] Scene serialization

2000-03-15 Thread Sven Hartmeier
Hello ! :) > Is there anybody who could help me with scene serialization ? :) > I NEED TO SERIALIZE A SCENE. Well, you are not alone. Me and many others have been asking for some way of saving out scenes directly from J3D with simple API calls for about the last two years now. Unfortunately, at

Re: [JAVA3D] billboard behaviour

2000-03-15 Thread Allen McPherson
Carlos Proal wrote: > anyone have examples about this or have ideas of how to solve my > problem. There is a Billboard example (actually 2) in the Java 3D demos (assuming that you've installed Java 3D). /jdk1.3/demo/java3d/Billboard -- Allen McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [JAVA3D] polygon with border

2000-03-15 Thread Dvorak, Daniel J.
I am using two Shape3Ds loading from the same GeometryInfo object. Before, when the Shape3Ds were in the same branchgroup, they looked fine. Now I have to split my geometry into several branchgroups to swap them in and out of the scenegraph, and my border ends up in a different branchgroup. Now

[JAVA3D] to .obj

2000-03-15 Thread FrankJackel
I'm looking for a program to develope a .obj file. === 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] and i

Re: [JAVA3D] billboard behaviour

2000-03-15 Thread Tim Bray
At 01:49 PM 3/15/00 PST, Carlos Proal wrote: >I have read and apparently Billboard behaviour does the trick, >anyone have examples about this or have ideas of how to solve my >problem. Billboard's a little tricky but I got it to work; I seem to recall that the tutorial had good explanation. I se

[JAVA3D] Resizing in screen only

2000-03-15 Thread Fabio Roberto de Miranda
Suppose I have a Java3D program rendering a Canvas3D on a frame that has, say, 200x200. The image (3D) is rendered at 200x200. If I increase this frame's size, say, to 400x400, Java3D will render that for me the scene at 400x400. If I tamper with resizing in physical screen

[JAVA3D] Java 3D

2000-03-15 Thread Yarden Mininberg
Hello to all, I develop an application that use Java 3D and like to start give the user use it. The application is Web Client/Server application. My problem is that if the user don't have Java 3D install on his machine he need to download Java Plugin (~5MB of download). In my application I use

[JAVA3D] [Fwd: Rejected posting to [email protected]]

2000-03-15 Thread Gareth Boden
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, pine wrote: > > > t = new Transform3D(); > > t.setRotation(new Quat4f(0.78f, 0.78f, 0.78f,0.0f)); > > > > What's the four parameters in Quat4f( ) mean? > > Dunno exactly (it's a complex number of some sort), but if you're > interested in rotation about a particul

Re: [JAVA3D] Applet reading from file?

2000-03-15 Thread Stefano Scarpanti
OK, I understand all the matter: (I hope) now all my browsers seem to run correctly! Conclusion: netscape and hotjava seem to have bugs related to locale instantiation of applets, whilst negotiating with httpdemon all is right. So, if I use a real http transfer, so no simulation in locale on my fi

Re: [JAVA3D] polygon with border

2000-03-15 Thread Dvorak, Daniel J.
I was really looking for some switch to set to get a polygon_line in the same Shape3D as the filled polygon. That would be a cool feature. Would it be possible to subclass something to get the desired effect? > -Original Message- > From: Allen McPherson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:

[JAVA3D] Texturing Object File

2000-03-15 Thread PK
Hi All, I've loaded an Object file(.obj) and I now want to texture it with a .jpg file. Can anyone help me with this? Here's the important bit of my code for loading the file: Scene s = null; s = f.load(filename); //filename is the name of the file, cube.obj for ex. objTrans.addChild(s

Re: [JAVA3D] Interfacing trackers with J3D application.

2000-03-15 Thread Prashant
Hello Helmuth, I'll be glad to know the details. As soon as I've something to tell you, I'll let you know. Regards, Prashant Varshney. Helmuth Trefftz wrote: > Hi Prashant, > > I created a sepparate thread that reads the polhemus tracker and updates > the Java3D accordingly. It works. If yo

Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D Performance Help

2000-03-15 Thread Vincent Erickson
The only problem with following your suggestions is that every time I try and "upgrade" to these beta versions, my IDE stops working, or the app refuses to run, or the app runs and comes up with garbage in the 3D scene (depending on which IDE I try). I have been fantastically unsuccessful in getti

Re: [JAVA3D] Help! Bug in TextureLoader?

2000-03-15 Thread Neil Daniels
For what it's worth - I also had some problem with textures and j3d1.2. The problems went away when I went back to j3d1.1.2. Very annoying. Neil -Original Message- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ahmed Shakil Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 4:32

[JAVA3D] better picking

2000-03-15 Thread Jimmy Talbot
Hi, I thought I had it all figured out, but it turns out that I don't. The picking used in PickObject doesn't seem to work very well in our scenario. Picture a bunch of planes tiled on the surface of a sphere (each plane being a separate Shape3D), each being tangent to the surface of the sphere w

Re: [JAVA3D] Graphical tool

2000-03-15 Thread ov Ole Vilmann
Yes you can ! The java loader overview is located at http://www.billday.com/Java3DArchive/index.html In a recent mail from yesterday Doug Gehringer has included the latest jar file in a mail to the java3d list. Ole Vilmann -Original Message- From: Ronan O'Driscoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [JAVA3D] Scene serialization

2000-03-15 Thread Vladimir Olenin
If i'm not mistaken, SceneGraphObjects can not be serialized (i might be wrong, though). But, anyway, why not try to implement Serializable (or Externalizable) interface and save the object locally to see what would happen? Then u can reconstruct it and see if this worked out or not. vladimir