[Source] Need help with ChefX3D

[Alan Hudson]

Felipe Bacim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new here and I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but
> since the ChefX3D mailing list is not working this is probably the best
> place to do so. As I'm registered in the chefx3d-cvs list, I know it's under
> heavy development, so hopefully someone will be able to help me over here.
> 
> I wanted to give it a try with the stable version, but the link is broken in
> their webpage. Although I could find two zip files in their website
> containing binaries for versions 2 (stable) and 3 (which seems to be the
> version they're working on) and demos, they're not working properly on mac
> os and even gave me more errors on Windows. For version 2, xj3d does not
> seem to work, and version 3 seems to be full of bugs.
> 
> Anyway, it's been two weeks or so that I've been trying to get a basic
> example of the HEAD version of the ChefX3D library to work, with no success
> until now. As there is no documentation other than the API reference for the
> older version, I guessed this was the best way to get started. It seems that
> the biggest issue is that some of the libraries used in the examples are not
> being included in the makefiles (GeoTools - gt2d). I tried to include the
> gt2d package into the makefiles, but I got lot's of errors. I even tried to
> modify the BaseExample.java and it's dependencies to not use gt2d and only
> use a basic perspective view with xj3d, but I got many internal errors and
> in the end the only part that worked was the swing interface.
> 
> So this raises my question: can anyone help me getting any of the examples
> that are provided with the library to work? Or maybe provide me with an
> example designed to work with the latest version?
> 
We are right on the cusp of a major delivery of the system.  We have 
some very nice demos using the library that I could show you.  But as to 
the state of cvs head,  that won't get resolved until we finish this 
project about a month away.  The examples from the stable 2.0 release 
should work.  I know that the 3.0 branch examples have not been updated yet.

If demos help you then I can schedule one for you.  If its code level 
examples you need then that will need to wait till we have some free time.


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Alan Hudson

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