Why not just bundle the jPCT library in the JAR along with the Applet?

Okay, I'll play around with the settings. I appreciate the help. Hopefully I can get my desired effect.

But what about the dynamic lights? Such as the red light surrounding the player droid (and the blue light surrounding it when pressing RMB). And also the alert lights.

How did you achieve such perfect lighting in Paradroidz? I looked through your level code, and your placing walls by referancing a text file and placing them accordingly - so your levels are not in one 3DS object file. Okay anyway, so I tried loading my walls and floors the same way, individually placing them (I already wanted to do it this way before I even found the Paradroidz source) accordingly. But my lighting is all messy. Take a look: http://www.jamisongames.info/Screenshot.jpg

Here's some of my code:
String map[] = {
"    ********",
"    *......*",
"  ***......*",
"  *........***",
"********.....*",
"*......*.....******",
"*......D..........*",
"*......*..........*",
"********..........*",
"   *..............*",
"   ****************"
};

.....

public void Init() {
ObjectHolder.init();
world.setAmbientLight(200, 200, 200);
camera.rotateCameraX((float)Math.toRadians(32));
camera.setPosition(new SimpleVector(10, -10, -5));

world.addLight(new SimpleVector(10, -0.5, 10), 255, 0, 0);
world.setLightDiscardDistance(0, 5);

BuildLevel();
}

public void BuildLevel() {
int mapH = map.length;
for (int i=0; i<mapH; i++) {
int mapW = map[i].length();
for (int j=0; j<mapW; j++) {
char c = map[i].charAt(j);
if (c == '*') {
Object3D wall = new Object3D(ObjectHolder.getObject(0));
float bBox[] = wall.getMesh().getBoundingBox();
wall.translate(bBox[1]*j, 0, bBox[5]*i);
world.addObject(wall);
}
if (c == '.') {
Object3D floor = new Object3D(ObjectHolder.getObject(1));
float bBox[] = floor.getMesh().getBoundingBox();
floor.translate(bBox[1]*j, 0, bBox[5]*i);
world.addObject(floor);
}
}
}
world.buildAllObjects();
}

.....
The "....." represents code that's not necessary to be shown.

If game development is in you, you'll continue to learn new things, study game dev, read books on game programming, graphics, AI, and/or whatever else. My oppinion is, you can't really force yourself to program games - well maybe if you do, it won't last long enough.

What motivates me? The fact that I love game programming and 3D graphics modelling, and one day, I want to become a professional game developer; it's my dream. So, look out for my name as the newest member of EA Games' developers team! Hehe, just kidding.

Quote from: "Melssj5"well 10,10,10 is not white, is almost black, anyway you should see something, let me check the code.

Well, whenever I was rendering in software mode, 10, 10, 10 was perfect (sometimes even too bright).

Here's the code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.threed.jpct.*;
import com.threed.jpct.util.*;

public class Hardware3D {
int fps = 60;
int gameW = 640;
int gameH = 480;
boolean running = true;

World world;
Camera camera;
FrameBuffer buffer;
KeyMapper keyMapper;
TextureManager texMan;

Object3D object;

public Hardware3D() {
texMan = TextureManager.getInstance();

Config.glWindowName = "Hardware 3D";
Config.glSetDesiredVideoMode(32, 16, 60, false);
buffer = new FrameBuffer(gameW, gameH, buffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
buffer.enableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL);
buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);

world = new World();
camera = world.getCamera();

world.addLight(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -10), new Color(100, 100, 100));

texMan.addTexture("block", new Texture("Block.png"));
object = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
object.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(object);

world.buildAllObjects();

camera.setPosition(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -5));

keyMapper = new KeyMapper();
Render();
}

public void ExitNow() {
System.exit(-1);
}

public void Render() {
while(running) {
buffer.clear();
world.renderScene(buffer);
world.draw(buffer);
buffer.update();
buffer.displayGLOnly();

Controls();
GameLoop();

try {
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000/fps);
} catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
ExitNow();
}

public void Controls() {
int k = keyMapper.poll().getKeyCode();

if (k == KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE) running = false;
}

public void GameLoop() {
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new Hardware3D();
}
}
(I moved the camera forward by 5 meters just because the model was too far back - it made no rendering differance except -5m is closer.)

EDIT:
Note that I was playing around with the lights and remember Config.setAmbientLight() and it looks better with ambient light color 200, 200, 200.

Okay, I added a white light (10, 10, 10) at position 0, 0, -3, and also tried it at 0, 0, -10. Still nothing... I'm stumped. :cry:

EDIT: Apparently the light colors needed to be higher values than software mode, because I changed the light color to 100, 100, 100 and it works now!!!

1. Yes, the view is far enough back (since it renders at that same distance in software mode, and the model's size is 2m).

2. I didn't think lights were required. In software mode it renders without lights, or is OpenGL differant?

Thank you guys for the reply. After I found your Paradroidz source and scanned it for about 2 hours, I figured out that my Thread was causing the problem (like you both said), but now I have another... nothing is being rendered onto the screen. Here's my new and updated code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.threed.jpct.*;
import com.threed.jpct.util.*;

public class Hardware3D {
int fps = 60;
int gameW = 640;
int gameH = 480;
boolean running = true;

World world;
Camera camera;
FrameBuffer buffer;
KeyMapper keyMapper;
TextureManager texMan;

Object3D object;

public Hardware3D() {
texMan = TextureManager.getInstance();

Config.glWindowName = "Hardware 3D";
Config.glSetDesiredVideoMode(32, 16, 60, false);
buffer = new FrameBuffer(gameW, gameH, buffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
buffer.enableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL);
buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);

world = new World();
camera = world.getCamera();

texMan.addTexture("block", new Texture("Block.png"));
object = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
object.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(object);

world.buildAllObjects();

camera.setPosition(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -10));

keyMapper = new KeyMapper();
Render();
}

public void ExitNow() {
System.exit(-1);
}

public void Render() {
while(running) {
buffer.clear();
world.renderScene(buffer);
world.draw(buffer);
buffer.update();
buffer.displayGLOnly();

Controls();
GameLoop();

try {
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000/fps);
} catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
ExitNow();
}

public void Controls() {
int k = keyMapper.poll().getKeyCode();

if (k == KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE) running = false;
}

public void GameLoop() {
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new Hardware3D();
}
}
Now what am I doing wrong?

Sorry if it seems like I'm an idiot with jPCT, but it's quite hard without any tutorials.

Hello all,

I'm trying to render in OpenGL Hardware mode, however, the following is thrown as soon as buffer.clear() is called.
java.lang.NullPointerException
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glClearColor(GL11.java:562)
       at com.threed.jpct.GLRenderer.execute(Unknown Source)
       at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clearHardware(Unknown Source)
       at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clear(Unknown Source)
       at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clear(Unknown Source)
       at Hardware3D.Render(Hardware3D.java:35)
       at Hardware3D.run(Hardware3D.java:27)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

Here is my code:
import java.awt.*;
import com.threed.jpct.*;

public class Hardware3D implements Runnable {
int fps = 60;
int gameW = 640;
int gameH = 480;

World world;
Camera camera;
FrameBuffer buffer;

public Hardware3D() {
buffer = new FrameBuffer(gameW, gameH, buffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);
buffer.enableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL, IRenderer.MODE_OPENGL);

world = new World();
camera = world.getCamera();

(new Thread(this)).start();
}

public void run() {
while(true) {
try {
Render();
GameLoop();
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000/fps);
} catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
}

public void Render() {
buffer.clear();
world.renderScene(buffer);
world.draw(buffer);
buffer.update();
buffer.displayGLOnly();
}

public void GameLoop() {
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new Hardware3D();
}
}

I could not find any tutorial or any kind of information on how to render in OpenGL Hardware mode, so I looked through the documentation. I'm assuming I did something wrong here. I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Oh... I didn't realize I had to call checkCollisionXXXX(). Thanks, I'll try that.

Btw, you should write a tutorial or something for jPCT - I can't find any and it'd be nice to have.

Hello all. I'm having trouble getting collision detection with the CollisionListener to work. Here's some code for two objects - the second one being the object that collides with the first object.
block = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
block.setCollisionMode(Object3D.COLLISION_CHECK_OTHERS);
block.translate(0, 3, 0);
block.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(block);

block2 = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
block2.setCollisionMode(Object3D.COLLISION_CHECK_SELF);
block2.addCollisionListener(this);
block2.translate(0, -3, 0);
block2.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(block2);
this is a JPanel which implements CollisionListener, and here's the methods for it.
public void collision(CollisionEvent e) {
System.out.println("HIT!");
}

public boolean requiresPolygonIDs() {
return false;
}
But whenever the second object (obviously) collides with the first object, it does not print out "HIT!" as it should. What's wrong here? Please help me.

Thank you,
Jamison