Posted by gouessej on Sep 10, 2014; 10:54am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Java-3D-in-eclipse-Mac-OSX-not-functioning-tp4033010p4033119.html

Hi

CMBR wrote

I am actually a Theoretical Physics grad student (with a fairly negligible formal background in programming and computer literacy, hence my difficulty in following the simple instructions earlier).

In my humble opinion, you didn't spend enough time in fully reading my tutorial first, you asked some questions whose answers were already in it, you worked in a hurry without trying to understand what you were doing and then you used some obsolete JARs probably found on java.dev.net or Oracle website whereas you claimed to follow my simple instructions. This wasn't a problem of skills, you panicked and you took the risk of breaking your environment by putting the JARs into several locations without taking care of the consequences. If you put them into the JVM or into the directories used by the extensions, it might have broken some other applications or applets using Java 3D and/or JOGL. I appreciate helping people but I expect from them a wish to understand what they do, a wish to learn (even though you're not a student in computer science), not a wish of delegating their "job". Reading carefully my tutorial would have probably helped you to make Java 3D work on your machine more straightforwardly without testing random JARs found on Internet. Moreover, I tried to keep it short, I assumed that most people wouldn't be tempted to skip most paragraphs but it's probably what you did as you were unable to find the directories used by the extensions mentioned in BOLD.

CMBR wrote

EDIT: Is it likely the .jars/Java3D will still function correctly in MacOSX Yosemite? I plan on upgrading when it's released but not at the peril of my program. =/

It should work on Yosemite. Java 3D and JogAmp's Ardor3D Continuation rely on the same version of JOGL and somebody tested my game on Yosemite. However, in my humble opinion, if you fear breaking your program after each upgrade, maybe you should consider using another operating system ;)