Re: [gl4java-usergroup] I quit! :)

[Scott V. <vo...@cs...>]

Pepijn,

I'm curious how far you guys have gotten with your latest efforts.  Do you have a new drop that is functionally equivalent to Sven's last one, but easier to build?  I recall you talking about removing the C2J step, or similar things.

I can't say that I'll continue using either GL4Java or JOGL.  I use the former currently as a basis for JFreeD, but I'd obviously rather have a *real* Java3D implementation on top of OpenGL on Mac OS X.  Unless JOGL is/has a scene graph and other Java3D aspects, I won't be going in that direction.

I know there are a number of Java3D users frustrated by lack of Mac OS X support.  I don't know that anyone else has cobbled together this gl4java+JFreeD solution, but if it were better supported (even a little) they might be very happy.

Food for thought.

Scott



At 9:58 AM +0200 6/11/03, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt wrote:
>kaffiene wrote:
>>Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt wrote:
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>>>Just a little message to let you guys now that I'm not going to continue working on gl4java. JOGL has been released today (http://games.dev.java.net/) which makes my development obsolete. I spent some time today looking at their source code, and they basically have already implemented everything I had in mind myself. I suggest gl4java users move to jogl. BTW I noticed that there are no binaries available yet for jogl. I've already compiled it myself, so if anyone would like a binary, feel free to ask.
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>>>Pepijn
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>>Can I ask what features there were that made it attractive?
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>Well, just that it's already finished and already supports opengl 1.4. Also jogl is being developed by three people it seems. gl4java is just me, and I can't work full time on it, so the development speed is much slower. After some more careful consideration however, I'm not so sure I'm ready to drop gl4java just yet. Maybe I'll continue working on it, just for fun. I am wondering if anyone will ever use it though with jogl being available...

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