Posted by basti on Oct 21, 2023; 9:00am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/OrientedShape3D-not-working-tp4042902p4043087.html

@philjord
oh yes... not being able to or capabilities together was eluding me as well.

@unixnerd
Having slept on this, i would say setting mode to ROTATE_ABOUT_AXIS like this:

int mode = OrientedShape3D.ROTATE_ABOUT_AXIS //equal to 0
OrientedShape3D textLabelShape = new OrientedShape3D(labelText, appBlue, mode, new Point3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f));

may not be what you want, because the rotation point is set to (0,0,0) instead of default (0,0,1)
Have you tried using the default constructor and setting appearance and geometry separately ?

OrientedShape3D textLabelShape = new OrientedShape3D();
textLabelShape.setGeometry(labelText);
textLabelShape.setAppearance(appBlue);

This should set the default values:
alignment mode : ROTATE_ABOUT_AXIS
alignment axis : Y-axis (0,1,0)
rotation point : (0,0,1)

source: OrientedShape3D.java line 185