[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: Lighting

[Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

On 2009-06-03 01:20:01 +0200, Kristian Duske 
<kristian.duske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> No, not right now. We haven't added any support for lighting whatsoever 
> because we didn't see how it was neccessary for diagram editors, which 
> is our main concern ;-).
>
> If it's just a matter of adding methods to Graphics3D, I don't see why 
> we couldn't do it though. Jens, what do you think?

Of course we could add some methods for lighting support. :-) If there 
is a volunteer who would like to add them ;-) Note that the Graphics3D 
interface is implemented at least by two classes, one for LWJGL, the 
other one for X3D!

Generally spoken, we have only implemented so far what we need and what 
we think 95% of the users would probably need. If there are other 
things, please add a bug report (enhancement request). In most cases, 
we didn't implement things because we do not like them, but simply 
because we didn't have the time.

One note on lights: While OpenGL supports lights, it doesn't support 
shadows. So even if we add lights, maybe the effect won't be as 
impressive as expected.

Cheers,

Jens