@carlw That one is pretty cool. The code Jonathan shared with me is for this effect:

Once I get it working, it's just a matter of lots of math to simulate the perspective transforms.

@Ruckus Very nice. I don't think I have seen that one.

Nice. Isn't that Gerrit's control?

Yes, I meant Gerrit

@Ruckus cool effect

Sorry to both @jonathan and @hansolo_. I'm getting my help from the both of you mixed up 😛

@carlw I'd like something like the effect in the beginning of your video, but with some small twists. The cube should zoom out a little as it turns, and the new page should appear on the next side of the cube. That would be awesome.

Like this 🙂

@edvin "small twists" 🙂

@jchildress Hehe.. OK, I retract the word "small"!

@edvin Do you want the full 3 axis shift with images on the top and bottom and some transparency?

I think macOS has an effect like this to change between workspaces

I don't want to rebuild compiz in JavaFX 🙂

@Ruckus Nah, probablt just the two sides. It might be cool to offer the ability to set some custom node on the top sides though, just to go all the way 🙂

I have no idea what this entails by the way, but I've seen JavaFX video cubes, so I thought it might be possible at least.

You'd probably just use one pane in the background with the gradient and then zoom a 3d cube with snapshots of the other nodes involved on each side.

JavaFX already has the 3D

Box

Node, and it supports a mesh that could contain those images, so it kind of doesn't seem that hard.. hehe

@edvin I can try to mess around with using the actual JavaFX 3D API, but it can be rather difficult (as far as I understand it) without creating a subscene to properly handle the perspectives and lighting without messing up your current stage. The pseudo 3D I was going for (that Gerrit demos) is basically animating the properties of a

PerspectiveTransform

added to the `Node`'s effect.

Ah, I see. I have no idea about what would be the best approach, and I've never needed/used a sub scene, but with this approach you don't really need to "make" the effect yourself. Everything is there already.

True. I'll mess around with it. With any luck, it won't be a too much overhead to create the subscene and render it just for the sake of the transition.

Just read about

SubScene

. Pretty sure that would be a good way to go 🙂

@Ruckus Are you using the Camera for the Stage?

Just stumbled across this blog post. Don't know if it's up to date, but it seems like what we want to do is doable:

@carlw I don't want to, since it would mess with the rest of the stage, which is why you need a SubScene.

@edvin I'll look into that. I can't tell if that creates an orthographic or perspective render from just looking at it.

BTW. If TornadoFX ever uses Jenkins, you'll probably need the Xvnc plugin to get a display on a monitor-less instance. I upgraded a Java 7 project to Java 8 and got various hanging and DISPLAY= errors running some FX-oriented unit tests

@carlw We use Travis for tests, running xvfb without any issues 🙂 https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/blob/master/.travis.yml