Transformation of a View using VirtualUniverse

Question

Hi everbody
this is my first project with j3d and I want to make a MultiView.
I have 2 different universes, so I use VirtualUniverse, because when I use SimpleUniverse I get two applets (don't know why)
now I want to create two views of the same scene. My question:
How can I translate the views, I found only something for SimpleUniverse (getViewPlatformTransform) but not for VirtualUniverse, because in this case I have only a ViewPlatform und not a ViewingPlatform.
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but here is one way:
I've been doing HMD Viewing, so I get all the GraphicsConfiguration[] there are on the local computer,
then I use 2 JFrames, each attached to 1 Canvas3D each,
which than has a View attached to each Canvas3D Object.
Both Views use the same ViewPlatform Object which when added to the scene renders both views on both Canvas3D Objects
Make sure you do something like this:
getLeftCanvas().setMonoscopicViewPolicy( View.LEFT_EYE_VIEW );
getRightCanvas().setMonoscopicViewPolicy( View.RIGHT_EYE_VIEW );
This is how Java3D will automatically render each view (one for each eye in my case) a little differently to get the proper view
Then if you added the ViewPlatform to its own TransformGroup Object which has a get Method associated with it, every time you need to move the view you call:
getViewPlatformTG().setTransform( newTransform3DObject );
Hope this helps
Rob