• The easiest way to use Java View3D, withour any Java tool, is to use the View3DApplet object. See View3D as Applet
• If you have a graphical developmnent environment which can use beans, is also very easy: just load the View3D.jar and play with the new View3DCanvas component. See the JView3D Bean page.
• Or you can create yourself a 3D object and let the Java View3D display that object
• more advanced user can even extends the Java View3D library to define new tape of basic elements.

The View3D component inherit from the object java.awt.component, so just use it this way.
Example:
 

import java.awt.*:  import tom.graphic.ThreeD.*;  public class MyApplet extends Applet{      View3DCanvas myView;      public void init(){          setLayout(new BorderLayout());          myView=new View3DCanvas();    // Create the new canvas          add("Center",myView);      }  }

That's all.....

the problem is that the object is created with the default object, which is a dirigable. Maybe you want to add your own object.
So, if you're program is executed from an applet, just replace the View3D canvas creation with the following lines:
 

myView=new View3DCanvas(false);  // the false value is here to prevent                                       // the creation of the default obj         try {         String name="avion.m3d";        myView.setObj(new URL(getDocumentBase(), name ).openStream(),name);      } catch(Exception e) {         System.out.println(e);       }

 
Now, you have an applet with a 3D object.
Note that there is such an applet included in the View3D package: the View3DApplet object. This object does all the job of retreiving parameters from the html, display object, etc...

Now you can move your object. Play with the setAngleX/setAngleY/setAngleY values of the View3DCanvas, or the setPosX/setPosY/setPosZ to change the user point of View.
 

 
 Lesson2: How to create a more complex object.

The basic object used in our 3D worlds are Ojbect3D instances. Each object is made of Points and several Elements ( see class Elem3D). An element can be a line, face, sphere (or something else if you want to extends View3D).
So, using our previous applet, we will create a new object ( a pyramide) and add this object in our world.
 

Object3D myObj=new Object3D();      myObj.addVert(-1,-1,0);  // this is point number 0      myObj.addVert( 1,-1,0);  // point number 1      myObj.addVert( 1, 1,0);  // etc...      myObj.addVert(-1,-1,0);      myObj.addVert( 0, 0,2);      Face  f=new Face(0,1,4,4,Color.red); //if you use 3 points for your face                                           //instead of four, just put twice the                                            // last point index      myObj.addElem(f);      f=new Face(1,2,4,4,Color.green);      myObj.addElem(f);      f=new Face(2,3,4,4,Color.green);      myObj.addElem(f);      f=new Face(3,0,4,4,Color.green);      myObj.addElem(f);      f=new Face(0,3,2,1,Color.yellow);      myObj.addElem(f);      // now, we add your new object in the whole world      myView.view().world().addObj(myObj);

 

that's all....

Lesson3: Add new readers...

It's easy to add new reader. Just implement the ObjReaderInterface, and register your reader using the static method: Object3D.addReader(). Check the next tutorial: Create your own object Reader.