Looking for Guidance

I have been buying crazy books, searching on the web and studying alot to learn about java3d. I have taken numerous java classes in school and I am pretty good with java, but the issue stands where I find a book or online tutorial and this is how it works....Chapter one, who, what, where, why java3d,

Chapter 2, learning to create a simple envioroment..

Chapter 3, 50 million lines of code and about 500 classes on how to create a fully functional world with lights, terra,obects...etc.

I am looking to learn as much as I can but I need to do it at kinda a slow process rather than jumping right in and coding this big huge massive program. I cannot find any good tutorials past creating a cube, rotating cube etc.Any advice would be greatly appriciated...even a beginner book. I am looking for tutorials or books that explains from creating a simple envioroment to creating a massive programing using all the java3d classes. Thanks.

[960 byte] By [GarrettWadeMana] at [2007-10-2 13:13:11]
# 1
I found the following quite useful:Computer Graphics With JavaRowe, G.W.Interactive Computer GraphicsAngel, EJava 3D ProgrammingSelman, DAmazon.co.uk seem to have all 3 if you want to look.
badhorsya at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...
# 2
Perhaps this can help- http://www.benmoxon.info/Java3d/index.htm - some of the code is a little old and may need tweaking to work on modern systems but it goes beyond the very basic stuff without hopefully losing people too badly.
_Breakfast_a at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...
# 3

Thanks guys, this means alot not getting a message saying go google it or something. Don't laugh but it took me about 6 months to actually get an example of a java3d code to compile right, because I didn't have the right stuff installed, And finding tutorials that actually have their examples compile correctly, sometimes I think its me, but I think that 20% of files in tutorials just don't compile right.

garrettwademana at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...
# 4
Well I wrote the one that I just linked to so if you're running into problems just mention it here and I'll see what I can do...
_Breakfast_a at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...
# 5

If you could, If you can, could you help me on why I get the following errors for the followcamerapurple dude file?

package com.glyphein.j3d.loaders.milkshape doesnot exist

cannot find symbol class MS3DLoader

cannot find symbol class SimpleLand

cannot find symbol class FollowcamMorph

what would be the lines to add these classes, as I am unsure of the classpath?

thanks

garrettwademana at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...
# 6
Do you have the milkshape loader in question downloaded?If so you should be able to just add it's location to your project classpath in your IDE and that should be all you need. If you don't have it, it's here: http://home.earthlink.net/~kduling/Milkshape/
_Breakfast_a at 2007-7-13 10:42:42 > top of Java-index,Security,Cryptography...