Trouble with loading a model (solved)

Hello,
I tried to load a model into my Program, but the model just doesn't appear Huh

. I debugged the whole thing a couple of times and to me it looks like the loading itself is fine. I hope you can help me, because this thing is bugging me for about a week and i can't come up with a solution myself for some unknown reason Cry

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import java.applet.Applet;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration;

import javax.media.j3d.BranchGroup;
import javax.media.j3d.Canvas3D;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.applet.MainFrame;

import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse;

import com.sun.j3d.loaders.*;
import com.glyphein.j3d.loaders.milkshape.MS3DLoader;

public class Flasche extends Applet
{

   public Flasche()
   {
      setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      GraphicsConfiguration gc = SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration();
      Canvas3D canvas = new Canvas3D(gc);

      add("Center",canvas);

      BranchGroup bg = createScene();
      bg.compile();

      SimpleUniverse bottle = new SimpleUniverse(canvas);
      bottle.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
      bottle.addBranchGraph(bg);

   }

   public BranchGroup createScene()
   {
      BranchGroup root = new BranchGroup();
      Scene scene = null;

      Loader loader = new MS3DLoader(MS3DLoader.LOAD_ALL);
      try
      {

         java.io.File file = new java.io.File("./flasche.ms3d");
        if (file.getParent() != null)
        if (file.getParent().length() > 0) // figure out the base path
        loader.setBasePath(file.getParent() + java.io.File.separator);
        scene = loader.load(file.getName());


      }
      catch(Exception e)
      {
         System.exit(0);
      }




      root.addChild(scene.getSceneGroup());

      return root;
   }

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      Frame mf = new MainFrame(new Flasche(),500,500);

   }
}

September 12, 2007, 05:22:26 pm :
solved the problem myself by adding a background, maybe this might help others, who are also new to java3d, because this was never mentioned on any tutorial i read this far

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public BranchGroup createScene()
{
... //same code as stated above

//the new code segment
Background back = new Background();
BoundingSphere bounds = new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0,0,0), 100.0d);
back.setApplicationBounds(bounds);
back.setColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);

root.addChild(back);

... //return statement as listed above
}

Finally I can continue my studies on java3d in my spare time Grin