[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: Best strategy for updating all figures?

[Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx>]

So it looks like prettymuch just overiding performRender.. ? Not sure 
sabout the texture stuff though - don't have any OpenGL or 3D graphics 
experience. And yes, I'm going through Eclipse CQ process right now, so 
I certainly understand.  :)

Could you provide -- for the time being anyway -- these existing shape 
classes as an Eclipse external plugin?

What about putting two 2D figures in space -- like cardboard cutouts 
but standing upright instead of laying flat on surface?

For background, the Agent Modeling Platform Agent Graphics Framwork 
will have very high-level support for agents (or any objects really) in 
2D and 3D space, and so what I'm really trying to do here is create a 
set of simple figue and locaiton providers that can situate objects in 
space with a particular orientation, shape etc.. so that AGF developers 
will simply have to create a view extension point along with AGF 
extension points for the providers they want to implement and they'll 
have a dynamic agent view. Let me know if you guys have had thoughts in 
this direction..

On 2009-05-30 03:48:20 -0700, Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> GLU supports spheres, and the OpenGL code (with GLU) is pretty simple, 
> as shown here:
>
> 	http://lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2008/08/rendering-sphere-in-opengl.html

I'm
planning 
> to add spheres in the next weeks, maybe some more shapes.
>
> But you are right, we have to think about how to define a surface of a 
> sphere. Hehe... projecting onto the sphere would be cool, but I'm 
> afraid that wouldn't be too easy. There is another tutorial oin how to 
> create a textured sphere w/o GLU:
>
> 	http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/sphere.html
>
> I'm going to investigate in that direction a little bit further. 
> Actually, the biggest problem would probably be legal issues. We had 
> already spheres and other shapes in GEF3D, but I had to delete them for 
> legal reasons for getting GEF3D IP approved.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jens