Xith3d progress

[musterm]

Hi David,

is it possible that you implement the isLive()  'if(!node.isLive()) return;' method into the Views renderNode(Node node)-Method, so that one can use own 'Pre-Culler', without having to derive all classes?    

thanks in advance

[hawkwind]

"..oh and just messing with the Terrain stuff. what sort of file duss it exspect? grayscale? jpg/png? oh and how do u add the Terrain to a say 'BranchGroup'. so to render it...."


I agree with aNt, whenever you have even a small terrain demo I would be very interested, sophiticated stuff...don't quite see how to use it.

[William Denniss]

Transform3D setRotation changes have now been commited.

Changes made were the ones posted in this forum.  (http://tanksoftware.com/dev/Transform3D.changes.diff for exact changes)

if you want to harrass me, my email address is listed in my profile

Cheers,

Will.

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[aNt]

nice one dude

[Orangy Tang]

David - I noticed you've mentioned transparent surfaces and seem to have them included in a couple of screenshots, along with (unless i remember incorrectly) shadow volumes. How do you get the two to play nice with each other? Do you shadow the transparent polys or just draw them without lighting?

I've got a similar system working ( http://studenti.lboro.ac.uk/~cojc5/Vecript/SoftShadows.png ) that uses a similar method to shadow volumes, but i've yet to add transparent surfaces. At the moment if i do a pass per light then the transparent surfaces are going to end up being drawn waaaay too many times At the moment the only solution i can think of is to draw them at a reduced alpha value depending on the number of rendering passes they'll be included in..

[Jens]

I wonder if there's any class like the Java3D "Alpha" and "RotationInterpolator" in Xith3D? How are time-depending rotations realised? Are there examples?  (btw. Xith3D should have its own forum here)

[aNt]

Xith3D should have its own forum indeed. its going to get very very cool if the eye is on the ball

would be nice to have a chase cam class also

very exciting stuff

[DavidYazel]

Joo I will be adding a physics plugin system that will be handling movement of objects over time.  I should have the interfaces fleshed out in a day or so.

I will also be adding sound support, with the usual abstraction between the usage and the implmentation.  First version will use joal.

[Jens]

Just saw this message:

https://xith3d.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectForumMessageView?forumID=251&messageID=770

Does anyone know where to ask for a new forum?

[William Denniss]

I've posted in the general forum:

http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=announcements;action=display;num=1061630385;start=0#0

It think it would be very nice to have a dedicated forum rather than a single thread .

Will.

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[hawkwind]

Full agreement here, I beleave this project will move rapidly.  I would like to see a unique forum.  I don't know how many of you have been reading the replies to justins "What would you want for java3d" thread in the java forums.  Many people referenced xith3d as an alternative

[William Denniss]

for those who havn't seen it yet, there is a new Xith3d forum here:
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=xith3d

Cheers,

Will.