Hello,

I'm trying to find a way to mix Java3D and JOGL in order to mix a personnal project made with Java3D with WorldWind or/and to move this personnal project on mobile device (android).

I found an old thread that told that someone successed to integrate a JOGL gui in Java3D but I don't manage to get his code working :

http://www.java.net/node/647737

Does someone does something like that ?

Does someone has any clues / thoughts to do that ?

Sorry for my english and to avoid misunderstandings, I don't plan in any way to move my personnal project on JOGL, for other reasons out of the subject

Regards,

Antoine

Just pick one of the 3d engines listed here.

Hi,

The question is not "should I change from Java3D to something else ?" but "Can we mix Java3D and JOGL ?"
If it helps, consider it is a very old project for a company who doesn't want to spend time and money to change the underlying engine

So I know we can easily mix JOGL and Ardor3D / Xith3D / JME / WorldWind Java / JReality / etc.
And because the approach is different in Java3D, the abstraction is stronger between Java3D and JOGL,DirectX or OpenGL, I'm asking if we can do the same ?

It appears that nobody seems to have done this here, too bad

Concerning the health of Java3D, it is not a problem because I already use a modified version, maintained by myself.
Concerning Xith3D, I don't think it is very active these days.

It is not because a lib is not growing anymore that everybody should drop it, Java3D is very stable and does what it claims to do, which is what I look for
Take a look to this project, it shows that Java3D can perfectly fit some needs event today : http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp

And I'm not saying that Java3D is the best engine, just that it is stable enough to still be used today, just like other engines mentionned before.

Antoine

Antoine,

I'd be very interested in any modifications you've made to Java3d in your private version.

I'm in a similar position maintaining an engineering application that relies on Java3d, you can find
all my Java3d changes at:

https://github.com/hharrison/java3d-core

If you are willing, I'd love to put your changes up there as well.

Cheers,

Harvey Harrison
<harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
<harvey.harrison@ausencosandwell.com>

Hi Antoine

I have just ported Java3D to JOGL 2.0 and Harvey explained to me how to avoid some big root causes of crash  Let's have fun. The source code will be on Github soon. This port took me about 4 hours whereas Oracle guys thought it would require 4 weeks lol.

Hi



Honestly, it was not very hard to port except for the part using the new native windowing factory. It just works fine. It only uses JOGL 2.0, I disabled the both native custom wrappers. Worldwind is already able to work with Ardor3D, I'm not sure their users are interested in some sort of Java3D integration. It is available on Harvey's github account but he forgot to commit some files :s