I didn't change anything in CameraOrbitController.
However, I used Camera.getDirection() to get the direction and then print it.  But still the 'y' is zero. 
AMSRenderer(2858): <onDrawFrame> Camera's Direction=(0.0,0.0,-1.0)
I am attaching the CameraOrbitController that I am using... 



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I don't build the desktop samples 
ok.. I'll check if I have changed anything from the NinjaDemo.. and then get back to you...

thanks, raft. That's exactly how I resolved it.   

Also, I needed to save the bitmap as a png file.  I didn't want to do file operations in my renderer and so needed to pass the bitmap back to UI thread (activity) and also I needed the UI-Thread to have complete knowledge on the completion of file operations. 

So I created a 'Handler' in my UI-Thread and passed it to the renderer (constructor parameter). 
Once Renderer completes the queued operation, i.e. creation of the bitmap, it will post a 'Message' back to the UI-Thread, using the 'Handler'.  The bitmap goes back to the UI-Thread as 'Message.obj'

Sorry, I wanted to share this with the community, but got sucked into pose animation issues.... and you know that 

thanks a lot, raft  .  this would give our artist some useful space to work on..

hi raft, we kinda solved the problem.
My artist was trying to use two different materials for the different portions of the same mesh and that was causing the exporter to generate an empty clip.  So we got around the problem by using same material for the entire mesh.

Thanks for the support 

thanks, raft  .  I will ping my artist...

hi Egon,

I tried the solution mentioned in the forum topic that you pointed me to.  I did this.
I introduced a new method called getBitmap() in my Renderer.
public Bitmap getBitmap()
{
int[] tmpPixels = mFrameBuffer.getPixels();
        for (int i = 0; i < tmpPixels.length; i++){
            int tmpInt = tmpPixels[i] + 0xff000000;
            int red = (tmpInt & 0x00ff0000)>>16;
            int blue = (tmpInt & 0x000000ff)<<16;
            tmpInt &= 0xff00ff00;
            tmpInt += red + blue;
            tmpPixels[i] = tmpInt;
        }
        Bitmap lastImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(tmpPixels,
        mFrameBufferWidth, mFrameBufferHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
       
        return lastImage;
}

Then called this method from my Activity's onButtonClickListener.
mBtnDone.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
        Bitmap bmp = mRenderer.getBitmap();
        ...............
        ................
     }
});

Then when the button is clicked... i got the following exception. 
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340): java.lang.ClassCastException: com.threed.jpct.World
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.threed.jpct.GLRenderer.execute(GLRenderer.java:1721)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.getPixels(FrameBuffer.java:449)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.goora.ams.model.AMSRenderer.getBitmap(FMSRenderer.java:438)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.goora.ams.ui.ModelMain$11.onClick(AvatarMain.java:634)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
06-26 12:23:39.069: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(340):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I am not sure if it has got anything to do with the communication between the UI thread (Activity) and the Renderer thread  .  Any idea what's going wrong?  Meanwhile I'll do more analysis in parallel.

- Thanks...