Does anyone know what settings I have to use in the Materials in Blender to make it so when it exports, jpct will read the texture.  I've been able to do it easily in 3ds max and Metasequoia, but in Blender I have tried a bunch of options but it hasn't seemed to work yet.

ah got it working i guess i have to do this UV wrapping thing?

Ah ok that must be it I have no animations, I was planning on programmatically trying to manipulate the skeleton.

its not.  For this code:

File colladaFile = new File("Seymour.dae");
System.out.println(colladaFile.length());
       
        URI uri = colladaFile.toURI();

        final SimpleResourceLocator resLocater = new SimpleResourceLocator(uri.resolve("./"));
        ResourceLocatorTool.addResourceLocator(ResourceLocatorTool.TYPE_MODEL, resLocater);

        AnimatedGroup skinnedGroup;
        try {
            ColladaImporter colladaImporter = new ColladaImporter().loadTextures(false);
            ColladaStorage colladaStorage = colladaImporter.load(uri.toString());

            skinnedGroup = BonesImporter.importCollada(colladaStorage, 1f, new Quaternion().rotateX((float) Math.PI));
        } finally {
            ResourceLocatorTool.removeResourceLocator(ResourceLocatorTool.TYPE_MODEL, resLocater);
        }

        Texture texture = new Texture("seymour.png");
        TextureManager.getInstance().addTexture("seymour", texture);

        for (Animated3D o : skinnedGroup) {
            o.setTexture("seymour");
            o.build();
            o.discardMeshData();
        }
        return skinnedGroup;


I get error:

629380
Jan 15, 2011 12:15:18 PM com.ardor3d.util.resource.ResourceLocatorTool locateResource
WARNING: Unable to locate: file:/C:/Users/Disastorm/Documents/NetBeansProjects/KinectTest/Seymour.dae
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unable to locate 'file:/C:/Users/Disastorm/Documents/NetBeansProjects/KinectTest/Seymour.dae'
        at com.ardor3d.extension.model.collada.jdom.ColladaImporter.load(ColladaImporter.java:88)
        at kinecttest.Main.createAnimatedGroupCollada(Main.java:104)
        at kinecttest.Main.<init>(Main.java:64)
        at kinecttest.Main.main(Main.java:210)
Java Result: 1


but C:/Users/Disastorm/Documents/NetBeansProjects/KinectTest/Seymour.dae does exist, and as you can see the file = new File part does work because it prints out the filesize.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

dunno i think it was in a fenggui example so i just copied it from there. should i just remove all of that stuff?

*edit even after removing it i still have these weird coordinates.   oh well at least i got it to function properly.

I tried out the collision method for picking on the wiki and it works good when the object is close to my camera, but when its a little further it gets harder to pick my target object.  Instead, it keeps picking the "level" object instead of the character im trying to pick.  Strangely enough if I pick below where the character appears on the screen sometimes it will then pick the character even if the location i clicked doesnt have any part of the character there.  Do you know how I can fix this?  I believe I experienced this same thing when I used the regular picking method, as well.

Thanks.

Hello, what is the best way to synchronize speed of an application on 2 diferent computers.  When I use a while loop to do stuff like the movements, key reading, render, etc, it runs alot faster like almost a fast forward mode on my really good computer when compared to my older one.

It should. Maybe the normals for your animation are not calculated correctly? How are you loading the animation?

Oh I fixed it by calling build() on the imported objects before adding their mesh to the Animation and now the lighting works.  Thanks.  Btw is there any way to add a black outline around models like in cel shading?