This sounds like an issue I was having that I posted about in another thread. Unfortunately, the project has been on hold for a while so I haven't been able to find a solution yet. I'll let you know if I find one, though.

Hi guys,

I know this forum isn't for Java in general, but I thought since so many of you are working on games, I might as well ask here.

Every once in a while, my applet will hang for a couple seconds. Then continue on fine. I can't really figure out the cause of it. I thought it was maybe a synchronization thing so I tried adding synchronized blocks, but they haven't helped.

Could it be the garbage collector? There are a lot of objects that get orphaned during the course of the game, so could this be a possibility?

Thanks,
Ken

Thanks guys, that helped. I also had to turn off Config.fadeoutLight to get the desired effect.

I have another question. Is it possible to give the user the option to change the rendering mode to hardware from within the applet?

Hi guys,

I'm trying to create a game using software mode rendering, as I understand using hardware mode pops up a security warning (am I right?), and I don't want to impose on the user.

The problem I'm having is I create a light source but no lighting is applied. The applet is just black. Using ambient light works fine (uncommenting that setAmbientLight() line would show all the objects correctly), so I know lighting works to some degree. Here's the code in the constructor:


world = new World();
World.setDefaultThread(Thread.currentThread());
frameBuffer = new FrameBuffer(GravityBallApplet.width, GravityBallApplet.height, FrameBuffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);

world.addObject(interceptor.threeDee);
camera = world.getCamera();
cameraDistance = DEFAULT_CAMERA_DISTANCE;
camera.setPosition(0, 0, -cameraDistance);
world.getLights().setOverbrightLighting(Lights.OVERBRIGHT_LIGHTING_DISABLED);
world.getLights().setRGBScale(Lights.RGB_SCALE_2X);
//world.setAmbientLight(50, 50, 50);
world.addLight(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -1000), 20, 20, 20);

And here's the code in paint(Graphics g):


frameBuffer.clear();
world.renderScene(frameBuffer);
world.draw(frameBuffer);
frameBuffer.update();
frameBuffer.display(g);

I've tried various positions of the light and none worked. Right now it's positioned where the camera is. Any help is much appreciated Thanks.