[npsnetv-developers] Linux Test Results

[Jan K. <koe...@tu...>]

Hi,

I did some further testing under Linux. This time I used the CVS 
snapshot. Here's what I found out

    * There is a problem with the NPSNETV_HOME variable in the
      bootstrap.xml file. The PATH has to start with a "/" character
      which leads to a "file:////..." URL in the archive attribute of
      the StandardResourceManager. As a result, the archive can't be
      located. As a quick fix I removed one of the  slashes, but this
      won't work under windows. Could not figure out where to fix this
      in the Java sources.
    * I wrote some shell-scripts to replace the bat-files (see attachment).

The applications are hard to test as long as I don't know what they 
should do.

Most of them work now, but the scene stays quite gray.  The problem 
seems to be related to the sun (StandardHeavenlyBody) and the camera. If 
I transform the sun until I can see the flares, I can scale the camera 
to render the scene. Strange. Could also be a bug in the Linux 
implementation of Java3D (face culling, bounding spheres, influencing 
bounds or so).

Regards
Jan.

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Jan Köhnlein                     Arbeitsbereich Technische Informatik VI
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter   TU Hamburg-Harburg  		
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