On 2004-03-26 16:41:54 +0100, Ferdinand Strixner <strixner at web.de> said:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm (very likely) going to use squeak and wonderland as basis for my 
> diploma theses. One thing that is somewhat important for this project 
> is lightning. In the last few days I investigated the current state of 
> wonderland - among other things in that concern. With some minor fixes 
> I was able to add all four light types (ambient, positional, 
> directional, spotlight) to a wonderworld but they do not work as 
> expected because at least directional lights and spotlights seem more 
> like a placeholder than a final entity. So here is my question: Is it 
> senisble to put much effort into getting these advanced light types to 
> work in wonderland/B3D if they are obsolete anyway when the new 
> rendering engine gets released as part of croquet? Whouldn't it be more 
> feasable to isolate the 3D engine part of croquet and make a SqueakMap 
> package out of it in order to be able to use it in sqeak until the hole 
> croquet system becomes available?

I think we have the same problem in my team, we are working on a 3D 
robots simulator with Wonderland/B3B. When Croquet will be out, do we 
have to rebuild everything or there is something like a compatibility 
layer beetween the two 3D graphics engine ?

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