This should be possible to implement with relative ease.
I'll have to take a look at the source. I might hasten my return to my 3D Project.

PLEASE do. Between that and improving the docs a little, I guarantee you you'll see a lot of interest in your API (I remember you said somewhere that you hadn't seen any interest when you had first released it). I'll bet you good money that most people don't post their failures here, they just move on and forget. Thanks in advance.

By the way, another suggestion: animation-scaling. We should be able to speed up or slow down the animations. Shouldn't be too hard, in my opinion, but you tell me. Thanks again.

Do you mean the Object3D.animate(int) method? How would that work? I'm actually trying to speed up a skeletal animation, which I'm not sure is possible, but let's go one step at a time. : -)

Fireside, I'm almost certain that if you do Graphics g = buffer.getGraphics(); g.setFont(myFont); g.drawString("My String."); it'll work like a charm. Try it out and let us know.

Thanks a lot, pal. Will report whatever I may find.

The following is the code for getChild(String). The only scenario in which it would return null is if your XMLFactory returned an empty Vector. Anything you can tell me about it? Any problems in the past, or will I have to dig deeper and find out where that node comes from?

EDIT: I did dig further, and it all comes down to your XMLFactory.parseXML(String) method. I smell bug. :-) If you wouldn't mind, I could look at it for you.

public XMLElement getChild(String name) {
Vector nodes = XMLFactory.getInstance().getMatchingNodes(node.getName()+"/"+name,node);
if(nodes.size() == 0)
return null;

XMLNode newNode = (XMLNode)nodes.get(0);
return new XMLElement(newNode);
}

Egon, thanks a lot (I had not used that account in years).

Mizuki, then could and would you build me a character? : -)

Mizuki, if you find yourself able to build me a rigged human character that works with this skeletal API, I'd sure love it. Thanks for offering, and we might be able to work something out.

It doesn't load. Most of the times it reads all the bones and crashes before reading the mesh. This latest attempt is crashing just before reading the "bone hierarchies"(whatever that means). I could write a simple loader, provided he created the addBone(SimpleVector p1, SimpleVector p2) method for which I asked a year go (not that he has to comply, of course!). Or the source code of his loader, but that would probably be tough. Anyway, the command prompt screen of the latest, but not most succesful (although that's really arbitrary at this point) attempt: