Coming tonight ;D
http://www.realityflux.com/abba/newQuake3Dloader.jpg
Good speed improvement over the last version.
Organized in a package.
Loads TGA, BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF textures.
Will post the jar tonight 
Thought you mean for bsp hehe… however md3 is much more important for me right now
Loads TGA, BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF textures.
That’s much more than Q3 can do.
GJ ;D
Hit ‘S’ key once to stop the animation, and one other to resume.
Notice the huge performance boost that turning animations off yields :o
Animation off
http://www.realityflux.com/abba/newXith3DQ3WA.jpg
Animation on
http://www.realityflux.com/abba/newXith3DQ3A.jpg
Here’s the latest build packed in a zip file which also includes a md3 model (SuperSonic) along with a simple test.
You should put the .jar in your class path, for example on my machine it is stored in jre/lib/ext/ .
I also made a lot of enhancements to my framework
Enjoy
Ported to Java3D
Here’s a couple of screenshots that once again hightlight Xith3D supremacy performance wise.
With Animation
http://www.realityflux.com/abba/java3DA.jpg
Without Animation
http://www.realityflux.com/abba/java3DWA.jpg
PS: Gimmie my working BackGround color pass pleaaaaaaaase boohoo :sad panda: :’(
downloading now
background node support would be very nice indeed. The pure black backgrounds look a lot more crisp.
Do you plan to add your loader to the xith-tk? (no need to use cvs - just plonk the zip’s in the file sharing page).
Will.
edit: And it’s nice to see Xith3D performance beat Java3D by a factor of 2 
[quote]PS: Gimmie my working BackGround color pass pleaaaaaaaase boohoo :sad panda:
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Please Dude don’t cry! I’ve just committed Background Color support for you!
OK, you can use it just as normal Background Color in Java3D. Note that activation bounds for background node are still not supported.
[quote]background node support would be very nice indeed. The pure black backgrounds look a lot more crisp.
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Another colors already possible - check Xith3DBackgroundColorTest. Hit SPACE to change bg colors.
Yuri
OMG we got background color yay.jpg, kitten.jpg ;D
Thanks man, now I can code straight in Xith3D and port over to J3D instead of the other way around :P.
Hey William, can you tell me again how to commit my code?
Also I would like to know if it’s better to have the loader declared as com.xith3d.loaders.MD3Loader instead of net.jcd.xith3d.loaders.MD3Loader
Talk to you in a bit
[quote]OMG we got background color yay.jpg, kitten.jpg ;D
Thanks man, now I can code straight in Xith3D and port over to J3D instead of the other way around :P.
Hey William, can you tell me again how to commit my code?
Also I would like to know if it’s better to have the loader declared as com.xith3d.loaders.MD3Loader instead of net.jcd.xith3d.loaders.MD3Loader
Talk to you in a bit
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To put your code into the project, you first need to join java.net and then apply for dev status on the xith-tk project page (http://xith-tk.dev.java.net/)
This allows you access to the file sharing area so you can release builds.
To get your code into CVS - you’ll need to sign and fax that agreement off to Sun. I’ve got some instructions here: http://xith.org/tutes/GettingStarted/html/bleeding_edge_source.html#SECTION000123000000000000000
Then you need to “import” your code into CVS (check the cvs docs home page: http://cvshome.org).
As for naming - a decision was made to reserve “com.xith3d.” only for the official branch. For xith-tk you are welcome to use any package name you like and we recommend the “org.xith3d.” one.
I plan to add some more links to the xith-tk project from xith.org so that people who go there will first see the download links for the Xith3d library and then all the useful tools people have created.
Thanks ;D
Will.
@William: Ok, I’ll see what I can do
The package name is now declared as org.xith3d.loaders.MD3Loader;
Quick tutorial on how to use it:
First we declare our loader MD3Loader loader = new MD3Loader();
Then we attempt to load our model which is composed of 3 parts: upper, lower and head mesh.
loader.LoadModel(FileDirectory, ModelName);
In the example that comes with the zip file, my model name is “supersonic” and is stored into a sub-directory named “supersonic” as well.
In order to successfully load the model to your scene, it is very important that your files obey the following naming convention:
ModelName_lower.md3
ModelName_upper.md3
ModelName_head.md3
ModelName_lower.skin
ModelName_upper.skin
ModelName_head.skin
ModelName_animation.cfg
If we have a weapon model that we intend to load as well, all you have to do is:
loader.LoadWeapon(“WeaponDirectory”, “weaponName”);
You don’t have to worry about nasty exceptions since I manage them within the loader file.
Now that we loaded our model, and assigned a weapon to it we call
BranchGroup scene = loader.getScene();
Where scene is the compiled BG holding your model.
PS: Hey William, if you downloaded the loader, could you try running it with a colored background?
Mine crashes to the desktop after running for few seconds :’(
[quote]PS: Hey William, if you downloaded the loader, could you try running it with a colored background?
Mine crashes to the desktop after running for few seconds
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Was a bug. Update Xith3D from CVS before testing - already fixed.
Yuri
You rock ;D
Things look a whole lot better with a black background 
Cool piece of work man.
tomcat