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

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)

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Cheers,

Will.

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..

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

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?

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