Config

java.lang.Object
- com.threed.jpct.Config

```
public final class Config
extends java.lang.Object
```
Config is used for configuring the engine. For faster access and to reduce code size, all important configuration variables are public and can be accessed directly.
For setting them programmatically, it may be more convenient to use the setParameterValue()-method instead.
Some will show effect directly after modifying them, some should be modified before doing the setup work for jPCT. This will be stated in the description of the setting.

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field and Description
`static int`	`aaMode` Don't fiddle around with this!
`static boolean`	`aggressiveStripping` A debug switch...might go away in later versions.
`static boolean`	`autoMaintainAspectRatio` Ensures that the aspect ratio doesn't change when changing framebuffer size.
`static int`	`blittingMode` Don't touch this.
`static int`	`byteBufferLimit` Sets a limit for internal byte buffers.
`static boolean`	`cacheCompressedTextures` Experimental!
`static float`	`collideEdgeMul` When using the sphere-polygon collision detection for the camera, it may be useful to use a lower sphere radius for sphere-edge-collisions to ensure that the camera slides around corners in a more realistic way.
`static float`	`collideEllipsoidThreshold` A threshold that limits recursion for ellipsoid collision detection.
`static float`	`collideOffset` The maximum number in world units a polygon's corner and/or axis aligned bounding box/octree-node (is used) may have from a position vector to be taken into account as a potential collider in the collision detection methods.
`static float`	`defaultCameraFOV` The default FOV for the camera.
`static float`	`farPlane` The far clipping plane.
`static boolean`	`fixCollapsingVertices` If a keyframe animation is build in a way that vertices collapse (i.e.
`static int`	`flashSortThreshold` If the number of instances to sort exceeds this value, a flash sort will be used instead of the default quick sort.
`static int`	`glBatchSize` When compiling an Object3D, the renderer has to assume an ideal batch size for the underlying hardware.
`static int`	`glDebugLevel` Wraps gl calls to be printed out by the Logger if not set to 0.
`static boolean`	`glDither` Use dithering.
`static boolean`	`glForceEnvMapToSecondStage` By default, an environment map will be applied to the first texture stage if environment mapping is used on an object.
`static boolean`	`glForceHighPrecision` Forces high precision for shaders even if the shader source states otherwise.
`static boolean`	`glIgnoreErrors` If set to true, GL errors will be ignored.
`static boolean`	`glIgnoreNearPlane` If set to true, the renderer will ignore the configured near plane for creating the frustum and use a default value instead.
`static boolean`	`glRevertADDtoMODULATE` When setting this to true, every texture blending operation that uses the additive mode will be treated as if it were using modulation instead.
`static float`	`glTransparencyMul` Modifies the multiplicator for the transparency calculations in jPCT-AE.
`static float`	`glTransparencyOffset` Modifies the offset for the transparency calculations in jPCT-AE.
`static boolean`	`glTriangleStrips` Experimental.
`static boolean`	`glTrilinear` Use trilinear filtering between mip-map level.
`static boolean`	`glUseIgnorantBlits` Forces the renderer to skip the texture conversion from the FrameBuffer's blit(int[]...)
`static boolean`	`internalMipmapCreation` If true, jPCT-AE will always use its own mipmap generation code even if the GPU or driver could do it on its own.
`static int`	`maxAnimationSubSequences` The maximum number of sub-sequences an Animation may contain.
`static int`	`maxLights` The maximum number of lightsources that the Lights instance of a World may handle.
`static int`	`maxParentObjects` The maximum number of parent objects every object may have. usually, an object has only one parent object anyway.
`static int`	`maxPolysVisible` The maximum size of the VisList.
`static int`	`maxTextureLayers` The maximum number of texture that a polygon can have.
`static int`	`maxTextures` The inital number of textures the texture-manager can handle.
`static float`	`nearPlane` The near clipping plane.
`static boolean`	`oldStyle3DSLoader` jPCT 1.11+ features a fixed 3DS-loader, but the fix is based on experience, not on file format specs, because they were all different and inconsistent.
`static int`	`polygonIDLimit` A value that defines how many polygon IDs that were part of a collision will be stored before additional polygon IDs will be rejected.
`static boolean`	`renderTargetsAsSubImages` If true, render targets will be filled using a method to copy sub images.
`static boolean`	`reuseTextureBuffers` If set to true, buffers for uploading the textures will be reused if possible.
`static boolean`	`shadowMap4bpp` If true, a depth map will be limited to 16bit.
`static boolean`	`skipDefaultShaders` If true, no default shaders except the universal one and the one used for blitting will be compiled.
`static float`	`specPow` The sharpness of specular highlights.
`static boolean`	`stateOrientedSorting` If true, sorting will be state oriented.
`static boolean`	`unloadImmediately` If true, textures will be unloaded immediately when calling one of the unload-methods in the TextureManager.
`static boolean`	`useFloatsForCollisions` Forces jPCT-AE to use floats for ray-polygon-collisions (and calcMinDistance as well) instead of doubles.
`static boolean`	`useNormalsFromOBJ` By default, jPCT calculates normals based on the mesh's geometry when calling build().
`static boolean`	`usePowerVRTweaks` PowerVR chips labeled 6000 or higher are a buggy mess.
`static boolean`	`useRotationPivotFrom3DS` By default, jPCT-AE calculates a rotation pivot based on the mesh's geometry when calling build().
`static boolean`	`useVBO` Makes the engine use vertex buffer objects if possible instead of plain vertex arrays.
`static int`	`vertexBufferSize` Internal buffer used to upload vertex data to the gpu.
`static boolean`	`viewportOffsetAffectsRenderTarget` If set to true, any offset to the viewport will affect the render target as well.
`static float`	`viewportOffsetX` Shifts the (normalized) viewport into x-direction, i.e. a value of 0.5 lets the rendering start in the middle of the framebuffer so that only the leftmost half of the image is visible in the right half of the framebuffer.
`static float`	`viewportOffsetY` Shifts the (normalized) viewport into y-direction, i.e. a value of 0.5 lets the rendering start in the middle of the Framebuffer so that only the uppermost half of the image is visible in the bottom of the framebuffer.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`static java.lang.String[]`	`getParameterNames()` Returns the names of all public fields in Config, all configuration options.
`static java.lang.Object`	`getParameterValue(java.lang.String name)` Gets the current value of the parameter with the given name.
`static java.lang.String`	`getVersion()` Returns the version of this release.
`static void`	`setParameterValue(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value)` Sets a parameter with the given name to a value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Field Detail
  - defaultCameraFOV
```
public static float defaultCameraFOV
```
    The default FOV for the camera. Takes effect at startup and when a new camera is created. Default is 1.25.
  - autoMaintainAspectRatio
```
public static boolean autoMaintainAspectRatio
```
    Ensures that the aspect ratio doesn't change when changing framebuffer size. Setting this to false causes xFOV and yFOV to be both set to FOV. If it's set to true, only xFOV will be set to FOV and yFOV will automatically be adjusted to a FOV-value that maintains the aspect ratio. If yFOV is set explicitly in the camera, this setting will be ignored. Default is true.
  - maxTextures
```
public static int maxTextures
```
    The inital number of textures the texture-manager can handle. The manager wil increase the value if needed. This is in for historical reasons only. No need to adjust it. Default is 64.
  - maxPolysVisible
```
public static int maxPolysVisible
```
    The maximum size of the VisList. This represents the number of instances jPCT can display on screen per frame. If the instance number surpasses this value, all additional instances will be rejected and not drawn. This value has to be modified before instanciating a world. Default is 512.
    Please note that the name of this setting is misleading. It's called this way for compatibility with desktop jPCT.
  - maxLights
```
public static int maxLights
```
    The maximum number of lightsources that the Lights instance of a World may handle. Has to be modified before constructing the World to take effect. Default is 8.
  - maxAnimationSubSequences
```
public static int maxAnimationSubSequences
```
    The maximum number of sub-sequences an Animation may contain. The default is 20 (which is fine for most MD2 files).
  - collideOffset
```
public static float collideOffset
```
    The maximum number in world units a polygon's corner and/or axis aligned bounding box/octree-node (is used) may have from a position vector to be taken into account as a potential collider in the collision detection methods.
    A polygon will be considered as a potential collider if its first corner falls within a box with the length of 2*collideOffset and the position vector used in the detection as midpoint.
    This value may has be adjusted if the scaling of the world changes or the movement speed of the camera is set to a very value high. Setting this to a unnecessary high value reduces performance of collision detection while setting it to a too low value can cause the collision detection to fail.
    If the automated collision detection optimization is used on an object, this value won't affect performance that much anymore. Anyway, it's taken as an upper bound for the algorithm and for bounding box/octree-node processing, so it may still be required to adjust it. Default is 40.
    
    See Also:
    
    Object3D.setCollisionOptimization(boolean)
  - collideEdgeMul
```
public static float collideEdgeMul
```
    When using the sphere-polygon collision detection for the camera, it may be useful to use a lower sphere radius for sphere-edge-collisions to ensure that the camera slides around corners in a more realistic way. On the other hand, this may also cause some "bouncing" in other areas. Therefor, if the radius should be lowered, this value has to be adjusted. A value of 1f means, that the same radius is used for sphere-edge and sphere-polygon intersections. A lower value will lower the radius for sphere-edge and higher values than 1f are possible, but don't make much sense. Negative values will result in undefined behaviour. Default is 1f.
  - collideEllipsoidThreshold
```
public static float collideEllipsoidThreshold
```
    A threshold that limits recursion for ellipsoid collision detection. If the length of the current velocity (after collision) is lower than the initial velocity multiplied by with value, the recursion will stop. Setting this to the very low value will make the collision detection more accurate, but may also result in accuracy problems where collisions are detected that don't happen. Default is 0.1f.
  - flashSortThreshold
```
public static int flashSortThreshold
```
    If the number of instances to sort exceeds this value, a flash sort will be used instead of the default quick sort.
  - stateOrientedSorting
```
public static boolean stateOrientedSorting
```
    If true, sorting will be state oriented. If false, it will be spatial oriented. Default is true.
  - nearPlane
```
public static float nearPlane
```
    The near clipping plane. Default is 1.
  - farPlane
```
public static float farPlane
```
    The far clipping plane. Default is 1000.
  - viewportOffsetX
```
public static float viewportOffsetX
```
    Shifts the (normalized) viewport into x-direction, i.e. a value of 0.5 lets the rendering start in the middle of the framebuffer so that only the leftmost half of the image is visible in the right half of the framebuffer. Useful for implementing sidebars and similar stuff. Possible values are in the range of ]-1;1[, default is 0. This setting has NO influence on blitting into the framebuffer but the methods in Interact2D take it into account.
  - viewportOffsetY
```
public static float viewportOffsetY
```
    Shifts the (normalized) viewport into y-direction, i.e. a value of 0.5 lets the rendering start in the middle of the Framebuffer so that only the uppermost half of the image is visible in the bottom of the framebuffer. Useful for implementing sidebars and similar stuff. Possible values are in the range of ]-1;1[, default is 0. This setting has NO influence on blitting into the framebuffer but the methods in Interact2D take it into account.
  - viewportOffsetAffectsRenderTarget
```
public static boolean viewportOffsetAffectsRenderTarget
```
    If set to true, any offset to the viewport will affect the render target as well. If false, it won't. Default is false.
  - maxParentObjects
```
public static int maxParentObjects
```
    The maximum number of parent objects every object may have. usually, an object has only one parent object anyway. Default is 1.
  - specPow
```
public static float specPow
```
    The sharpness of specular highlights. Specular lighting has to be used on objects for this setting to take effect. Default is 6.
  - maxTextureLayers
```
public static int maxTextureLayers
```
    The maximum number of texture that a polygon can have. This is also limited by the underlying hardware. Default is 2, which is fine to stay compatible with older devices.
  - glTransparencyOffset
```
public static float glTransparencyOffset
```
    Modifies the offset for the transparency calculations in jPCT-AE. The actual formula is trans=offset+objTrans*mul, default for offset is 0.1f.
  - glTransparencyMul
```
public static float glTransparencyMul
```
    Modifies the multiplicator for the transparency calculations in jPCT-AE. The actual formula is trans=offset+objTrans*mul, default for offset is 0.1f.
  - internalMipmapCreation
```
public static boolean internalMipmapCreation
```
    If true, jPCT-AE will always use its own mipmap generation code even if the GPU or driver could do it on its own. If it's false, jPCT-AE will use the GPU to create them if possible. Default is true, because some devices are having driver problems with mipmap generation.
  - glIgnoreNearPlane
```
public static boolean glIgnoreNearPlane
```
    If set to true, the renderer will ignore the configured near plane for creating the frustum and use a default value instead. If it's false, the near plane will be used. Default is true.
  - glIgnoreErrors
```
public static boolean glIgnoreErrors
```
    If set to true, GL errors will be ignored. If set to false, the app will log the error and exit. Default is false.
  - glTriangleStrips
```
public static boolean glTriangleStrips
```
    Experimental. Default is false.
  - glDither
```
public static boolean glDither
```
    Use dithering. Will look better in 16bit mode but is slower. Default is true.
  - glDebugLevel
```
public static int glDebugLevel
```
    Wraps gl calls to be printed out by the Logger if not set to 0. Default is 0. While this works when using the OpenGL ES 2.0, it doesn't actually log the ES 2.0 calls but the virtual ES 1.1 calls that jPCT-AE maps to 2.0. Has to be set before creating the FrameBuffer to have an effect.
  - glTrilinear
```
public static boolean glTrilinear
```
    Use trilinear filtering between mip-map level. Some devices don't like this setting and produce only white texture, which is why it's false by default.
  - glForceEnvMapToSecondStage
```
public static boolean glForceEnvMapToSecondStage
```
    By default, an environment map will be applied to the first texture stage if environment mapping is used on an object. When combining it with multi texturung, this may not always be want one wants, because the lighting calculations of OpenGL may give you undesired results by applying the lighting to the environment map instead of the base map. To work around this problem, you can force jPCT to use the second texture stage for environment mapping, if (and only if) the object uses multiple stages. However, jPCT doesn't check if a particular polygon uses multiple stages. So if you are forcing environment mapping to stage 2, make sure that your multi textured object all have that stage for all polygons and that the correct textures are assigned. Default is false.
  - glUseIgnorantBlits
```
public static boolean glUseIgnorantBlits
```
    Forces the renderer to skip the texture conversion from the FrameBuffer's blit(int[]...)-method except for the first time. In other words: If this is set to true, an int[]-array that should be used for blitting will be converted into a texture exactly one time and this texture will be used from there on as long as the size of the int[]-array to blit doesn't change. This is much faster, but depending on the application, it may blit nonsense. Default is false.
  - glRevertADDtoMODULATE
```
public static boolean glRevertADDtoMODULATE
```
    When setting this to true, every texture blending operation that uses the additive mode will be treated as if it were using modulation instead.
  - glBatchSize
```
public static int glBatchSize
```
    When compiling an Object3D, the renderer has to assume an ideal batch size for the underlying hardware. If that size is too small or too large, performance may suffer or polygons are missing. The default is 8000.
  - glForceHighPrecision
```
public static boolean glForceHighPrecision
```
    Forces high precision for shaders even if the shader source states otherwise. Default is false, i.e. the setting in the shader source will be used instead.
  - renderTargetsAsSubImages
```
public static boolean renderTargetsAsSubImages
```
    If true, render targets will be filled using a method to copy sub images. If false, they will be filled using another method. The sub image method is the more compatible one, which is why it's default. Only change this, if render targets don't work on your device. This affects the OpenGL ES 1.1 mode only. ES 2.0 will always use FBOs and render buffers.
  - useVBO
```
public static boolean useVBO
```
    Makes the engine use vertex buffer objects if possible instead of plain vertex arrays. This might be faster on some hardware but not on all. Default is true.
  - polygonIDLimit
```
public static int polygonIDLimit
```
    A value that defines how many polygon IDs that were part of a collision will be stored before additional polygon IDs will be rejected. Default is 50.
  - vertexBufferSize
```
public static int vertexBufferSize
```
    Internal buffer used to upload vertex data to the gpu. Higher values might increase performance but may cause memory problem on lower end devices. Has to be multiple of 8 and 3. Default is 480.
  - aggressiveStripping
```
public static boolean aggressiveStripping
```
    A debug switch...might go away in later versions. If set to true, Object3D.strip() will act a little more aggressive causing more memory to be freed. If set to false, memory usage will increase a little. Only adjust this, if advised to do so or if you feel that calling strip() causes some trouble.
  - unloadImmediately
```
public static boolean unloadImmediately
```
    If true, textures will be unloaded immediately when calling one of the unload-methods in the TextureManager. If false, unloading will be delayed until the next frame is being rendered ensuring that it happens in the same thread as the rendering does. Default is false.
  - useRotationPivotFrom3DS
```
public static boolean useRotationPivotFrom3DS
```
    By default, jPCT-AE calculates a rotation pivot based on the mesh's geometry when calling build(). However, you might as well take the rotation pivot from the 3DS file. Setting this to true will force jPCT to use that pivot instead. Default is false.
  - useNormalsFromOBJ
```
public static boolean useNormalsFromOBJ
```
    By default, jPCT calculates normals based on the mesh's geometry when calling build(). However, you might as well take the normals from an OBJ-file. Setting this to true will force jPCT to use these normals instead. Default is false.
  - oldStyle3DSLoader
```
public static boolean oldStyle3DSLoader
```
    jPCT 1.11+ features a fixed 3DS-loader, but the fix is based on experience, not on file format specs, because they were all different and inconsistent. If you are getting wrong object colors or an error message, adjust this to true and see if it helps.
  - cacheCompressedTextures
```
public static boolean cacheCompressedTextures
```
    Experimental! With this, you can make jPCT cache ETC1-compressed textures on disk. To use this, a Virtualizer has to be assigned to the TextureManager.
  - skipDefaultShaders
```
public static boolean skipDefaultShaders
```
    If true, no default shaders except the universal one and the one used for blitting will be compiled. This can useful, if you provide your own shaders anyway. If you set this to true but are using some default shaders anyway, performance will suffer. Default is false.
  - fixCollapsingVertices
```
public static boolean fixCollapsingVertices
```
    If a keyframe animation is build in a way that vertices collapse (i.e. join the same space) during the animation, this can cause trouble with indexed geometry. By setting this to true, one can apply a hacky workaround for this. Default is false.
  - byteBufferLimit
```
public static int byteBufferLimit
```
    Sets a limit for internal byte buffers. If they are smaller than this limit, they will be resued. If they are larger, they will be discarded after use. This can improve load times at the cost of memory usage. Default is 64K.
  - reuseTextureBuffers
```
public static boolean reuseTextureBuffers
```
    If set to true, buffers for uploading the textures will be reused if possible. This can improve texture upload speed and may reduce garbage collection activity during uploads but it can lead to peaks in memory usage. Default is false.
  - useFloatsForCollisions
```
public static boolean useFloatsForCollisions
```
    Forces jPCT-AE to use floats for ray-polygon-collisions (and calcMinDistance as well) instead of doubles. The reason behind this is, that some older devices/VMs seem to have a bug in the JIT-compiler that makes the double calculations go wrong and return no collisions even in cases where there are some. Setting this to true will work around this issue at the expense of accuracy. Default is false.
  - shadowMap4bpp
```
public static boolean shadowMap4bpp
```
    If true, a depth map will be limited to 16bit. If not, it will be 32bit. Default is false.
  - usePowerVRTweaks
```
public static boolean usePowerVRTweaks
```
    PowerVR chips labeled 6000 or higher are a buggy mess. If this is set to true, some more aggressive workarounds will be used for these chips. If false, only basic workarounds will be used. Default is true.
  - blittingMode
```
public static int blittingMode
```
    Don't touch this. Default is 8.
  - aaMode
```
public static int aaMode
```
    Don't fiddle around with this! Just pretend that it isn't there.
- Method Detail
  - getVersion
```
public static java.lang.String getVersion()
```
    Returns the version of this release. Use this instead of VERSION.
    
    Returns:
    
    the current version
  - setParameterValue
```
public static void setParameterValue(java.lang.String name,
                                     java.lang.Object value)
```
    Sets a parameter with the given name to a value. This method can be used to access the configuration variables via their names instead of setting them directly. This is more suitable for setting them from some configuration file's data, but its slower than direct access, because it uses reflection.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name
    
    value - the value
  - getParameterValue
```
public static java.lang.Object getParameterValue(java.lang.String name)
```
    Gets the current value of the parameter with the given name. Because if type of the value is unknown, this method simply returns an Object. It's up to you to convert it correctly.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name
    
    Returns:
    
    the value
  - getParameterNames
```
public static java.lang.String[] getParameterNames()
```
    Returns the names of all public fields in Config, all configuration options.
    
    Returns:
    
    the names in no particular order

Class Config

Field Summary

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Field Detail

defaultCameraFOV

autoMaintainAspectRatio

maxTextures

maxPolysVisible

maxLights

maxAnimationSubSequences

collideOffset

collideEdgeMul

collideEllipsoidThreshold

flashSortThreshold

stateOrientedSorting

nearPlane

farPlane

viewportOffsetX

viewportOffsetY

viewportOffsetAffectsRenderTarget

maxParentObjects

specPow

maxTextureLayers

glTransparencyOffset

glTransparencyMul

internalMipmapCreation

glIgnoreNearPlane

glIgnoreErrors

glTriangleStrips

glDither

glDebugLevel

glTrilinear

glForceEnvMapToSecondStage

glUseIgnorantBlits

glRevertADDtoMODULATE

glBatchSize

glForceHighPrecision

renderTargetsAsSubImages

useVBO

polygonIDLimit

vertexBufferSize

aggressiveStripping

unloadImmediately

useRotationPivotFrom3DS

useNormalsFromOBJ

oldStyle3DSLoader

cacheCompressedTextures

skipDefaultShaders

fixCollapsingVertices

byteBufferLimit

reuseTextureBuffers

useFloatsForCollisions

shadowMap4bpp

usePowerVRTweaks

blittingMode

aaMode

Method Detail

getVersion

setParameterValue

getParameterValue

getParameterNames