What's been causing me to be uncharacteristically cranky and quiet-- and my eyebags to be extra dark -- is, ironically, something that is represented by two letters, which also happens to be the first two letters in my initials.

S.

P.

And now, I'm at a terrible, terrible dillema, and I SO need your opinion/help/whatever.

If I know you in real life, then I may have explained this to you already. But it's also possible that I have not. So I'm going to explain it all over again.

My SP -- Special Problem (or thesis, as it is more commonly known) -- involves a website of a school whose office is actually a house. What I'm supposed to do is make a 3D model of the school, which will the the first thing the user will see upon entering the website. The user is supposed to be able to use the cursor keys (or the mouse. whatever) to walk through the halls, and look around. There are a few clickable things that will lead to different parts of the website (which will be in plain ol' HTML). Since the house is small, I am to make it as realistic and as detailed as possible.

The rest of the website -- the HTML part -- is done, by the way. And before anybody asks, the Methodology and the Results parts of my paper isn't done. Of course.

One of my panelists (who resigned last year) told me to use Java 3D. And, for the life of me, I've been trying to understand Java3D for a whole freakin' year, but I still can't master it. And the coding is so freaking tedious, especially since I'll be making details like the shelves, the tables, the posters on the walls, etc. I don't know why I can't grasp Java3D, really. A lot of people seem to like it, and I happen to like plain ol' Java (or at least I did when I was still using it a few years back). But now it's got "3D" attached to the end...For some reason, it escapes me.

Since it's oh-so-detailed... I've been considering using Flash, instead. But the problem is I have no background on Flash. I already got some tutorials, and I borrowed a book on Flash animation. But every time I start to read and study it, I begin to doubt my (sort of) decision, so I slink back to trying my luck with Java3D again without making progress in Flash.

Right now, all I have on my J3D program are the walls and the floor. Absolutely no details yet (no ceiling yet, even!), but the navigation thingy is working already, so I can walk through the place. I've been looking for a program that'll let me design the model without the tedious code (sorta like Dreamweaver for websites), but I haven't found any. Oh, scratch that. I DID find one caled Jicasso, but it's way too basic, and it didn't help me any.

So here I'm thinking: should I just stick to Java 3D since I've got it started and it's what my former prof recommended (though I still have LOADS to model, and I have to learn properly using the classes), or do I switch to Flash which will probably give me an easier time in drawing the details and all the browsers recognize it, unlike Java3D (but I have to learn it from SCRATCH, and doesn't actually support 3D...although I can probably use animation tricks, and test my drawing prowess, to make it *look* 3D)?

What do you think?

Oh, yes. I almost forgot: Due date is the last week of February (though everybody says it's gonna be postponed). Fun, isn't it?

Then again, I can just opt to tell my professor: "FLUNK ME!" and I can make another SP proposal altogether. One that I can think over and plan over the summer, so I can be SURE I can finish it within a year. Although choosing to do that will mean that I'll be delaying my graduation for yet another year (meaning I'll be TWO years delayed)...

It seems to be dangerously appealing at the moment.

Again, I ask: Watcha think?

Hit me.

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