Hi there everyone.

I am really new to computer graphics and 3d programming.

I am trying to build a 3D human face model from pure Java ( it is my college project). so i guess, i need to build all the functions like rotation, transformation, matrix 3d....etc.

I have a polygone mesh for a face, but i want to make my own one ( just a very very simple one, probably about 100 points or less).

does anyone know, how can i make a simple face mesh and export the data (just vertices & polyones , i think that's all i neec??).

i have tried the maya but it required V C++, as i don't know C at all.

also i want to import the face mesh that i got to a 3d software.

so the question is.. which software i can use to do those stuff?

Many thanks.

In general if you are using OGL bindings (JOGL, LWJGL etc) you will have to write the import code yourself as there are no API standard data structures to load a model into.

OTOH if this is just a college project and you don't need the absolutely latest render tricks (eg pixel shaders) I'd suggest you look at Java3D which is a scene-graph level API and hsa all your translation/rotation stuff built in as well as other things useful for facial animation like object morphing.  It also has "loaders" for many popular data formats such as Max's 3ds.