Thanks Egon, i did that, but something entirely different happened -- the model appeared to revolve around an orbit.

Actually I solved my problem, I just to align the camera to the object then looked at it.


cam = world.getCamera();
cam.setPosition(sphere.getTransformedCenter().x, sphere.getTransformedCenter().y, -5);
cam.lookAt(sphere.getTransformedCenter());


I'm using the JPCT-AE Hello World code but changed the part where I load terra.asc in place of Primitives.getCube().

So I'm assuming when the model from terra.asc was loaded, it's center wasn't at 0,0,0 which is why I had to align the camera first. Is that correct?

I really appreciate this, I've just started to learn to use this stuff.

Quote from: EgonOlsen on November 02, 2011, 09:58:08 PM
3.) IIRC, terra.asc has proper texture coordinates for a sperical texture, i.e. if you take for example this image and rescale it to 512*256 or something, it should look fine: http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/unshaded1024.jpg

Loading terra.asc and applying a 512x256 texture worked for me, thanks! However, when I try rotateY() and rotateX() on the Object3D object, the center seems off -- what I mean to say is it looks like it is rotating around an axis which is not in the center of the sphere. When I used Primitives.getSphere() to generate the sphere, the rotation seems fine. Do you have any recommendations?

TIA