[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: interpolated animation

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

Hi Miles,

On 2009-06-16 01:17:16 +0200, Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> OK, this is waaay out on the "some day would be nice" frontier, but I'm 
> wondering if there is any way to get animation for figures that have 
> moved between refreshes, ala GEF. (Actyually, I haven't had great 
> success getting this to work there anyway.)

Since GEF3D uses the very same update mechanisms as GEF, GEF animations 
should work similarly as well. SO you may start with a GEF animation 
and then try the very same animation in a 3D-fied editor.

We have already camera animation working, simply by using a Timer and a 
TimerTask. The camera is then simply moved like that:

@Override

public void run() {

	final Vector3fImpl newPos = new Vector3fImpl();

	Math3D.add(camera.getPosition(null), delta, newPos);

	Display.getDefault().asyncExec(new Runnable(){

		public void run(){

			camera.moveTo(newPos.x, newPos.y, newPos.z);

		}});

}

But this is a special case an the camera is a concept not known in GEF.

Cheers,

Jens