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[kukanani]

Well, while holding my project development Exodus Online until Amos finishes Xith's COLLADA Loader (hint, hint), I have decided to make this one.  While it could use animations, it certainly doesn't need them.  A very customizable marching band, with different instruments and states for the musicians.  That is already in place - finished it in two days...Wow.  You know, sometimes I amaze even myself (10 points for identifying the quote).  I'm going to use OBJ for 3D stuff, and the musicians will start out as colored wedge shapes, hopefully eventually becoming full-fledged figures.  You will have a command box with which to direct the band, with commands like "Right...face!", "Left...face!", "Mark-time, hut!", "Forward, hut!", and so on.  I know this is no great undertaking, but I would like to get I nice 3D app finished, and this seems like a good way to do so.  Also, it will definetly be open source.  So, as soon as anyone shows any interest, I'll get the code up somewhere.  Screenshots coming tomorrow...

['n ddrylliog]

Well, while holding my project development Exodus Online until Amos finishes Xith's COLLADA Loader (hint, hint)

Oh, come that wasn't even half-hidden Yeah, I know, but physics are important too.. And for skeletal animation I want something working well.

I have decided to make this one.  While it could use animations, it certainly doesn't need them.  A very customizable marching band, with different instruments and states for the musicians.  That is already in place - finished it in two days...Wow.  You know, sometimes I amaze even myself (10 points for identifying the quote).

Han Solo: Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh? You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. (Starwars, 1977)
Haha, google's my friend

I'm going to use OBJ for 3D stuff, and the musicians will start out as colored wedge shapes, hopefully eventually becoming full-fledged figures.  You will have a command box with which to direct the band, with commands like "Right...face!", "Left...face!", "Mark-time, hut!", "Forward, hut!", and so on.  I know this is no great undertaking, but I would like to get I nice 3D app finished, and this seems like a good way to do so.  Also, it will definetly be open source.  So, as soon as anyone shows any interest, I'll get the code up somewhere.  Screenshots coming tomorrow...

Hey, hey, look ! =>          [INTEREST]

Wow, here it is (who knew ?)

Ah btw, it would make a cool testcase for OneClick+JWS (hell, so many things to do).

OK, back to Xith3D work now (finishing a big XPAL cleanup).

[kukanani]

I have decided to make this one.  While it could use animations, it certainly doesn't need them.  A very customizable marching band, with different instruments and states for the musicians.  That is already in place - finished it in two days...Wow.  You know, sometimes I amaze even myself (10 points for identifying the quote).

Han Solo: Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh? You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. (Starwars, 1977)
Haha, google's my friend

Amos.setPoints(Amos.getPoints()+10); 

I'm going to use OBJ for 3D stuff, and the musicians will start out as colored wedge shapes, hopefully eventually becoming full-fledged figures.  You will have a command box with which to direct the band, with commands like "Right...face!", "Left...face!", "Mark-time, hut!", "Forward, hut!", and so on.  I know this is no great undertaking, but I would like to get I nice 3D app finished, and this seems like a good way to do so.  Also, it will definetly be open source.  So, as soon as anyone shows any interest, I'll get the code up somewhere.  Screenshots coming tomorrow...

Hey, hey, look ! =>          [INTEREST]

Wow, here it is (who knew ?)

Ah btw, it would make a cool testcase for OneClick+JWS (hell, so many things to do).

OK, back to Xith3D work now (finishing a big XPAL cleanup).

OK, here it is.  I know the graphics are horrible, but, hey, I've just started...

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Well, not much to see so far. But there are a few tips:

PLEASE use the eclipse project setting to use separate folders for src and bin. It makes absolutely no sense to include the .class files in the zip and is even annoying for people who don't use the one-place-for-all setting, which is Eclipse' default unfortunately.

Do you know the color constants of Color3f? You've created you own color variables, which is not necessary. Simply use Color3f.WHITE, etc.

Use ResourceLocator to locate resources instead of direct file access. This way you will never have to mind about the place, where your resources come from (filesystem, jar, somewhere else). And you'll have one place to change the root of your resources.

You don't need to put the loaded model into a new Group. The OBJModel is a TransfromGroup extension. Though, you're not using the Group's features anyway. One more reason to use the plain model only.

Marvin

[kukanani]

Well, not much to see so far. But there are a few tips:

PLEASE use the eclipse project setting to use separate folders for src and bin. It makes absolutely no sense to include the .class files in the zip and is even annoying for people who don't use the one-place-for-all setting, which is Eclipse' default unfortunately.

Do you know the color constants of Color3f? You've created you own color variables, which is not necessary. Simply use Color3f.WHITE, etc.

Use ResourceLocator to locate resources instead of direct file access. This way you will never have to mind about the place, where your resources come from (filesystem, jar, somewhere else). And you'll have one place to change the root of your resources.

You don't need to put the loaded model into a new Group. The OBJModel is a TransfromGroup extension. Though, you're not using the Group's features anyway. One more reason to use the plain model only.

Marvin

Good, thanks.  I will follow all of that advice...about the OBJModel instead of a Group, I actually was planning on implementing that (oh, sure  ).

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Good, thanks.  I will follow all of that advice...

Cool .

...about the OBJModel instead of a Group, I actually was planning on implementing that (oh, sure  ).

Well, there's not much to implement actually. You just don't have to create the Group and put the model into it and return the Group. Just return the model itself, and you're through .

Marvin