Hi all,
I've been annoying some of you with questions to accomplish my project with a
few of my friends and I am now happy to be able to show you the result.
If you want to skip the speech and just try the game then check this link:
http://www.la-cfd.com/cassos/english/ and get guided.
The idea of the project/game was to make a complete (or at least almost) game
using java3d and several libraries. At the time I started the project I was only able
to find one playable game accomplished with java3d: Flyingguns. So I was pretty much
surprised and decided to try to do mine just to see what could be done. Since then,
I've found other games like Out of Space, Glymp3d and Cosm but even though, these
games are not very much up to date or not even playable (I wished I could've seen Cosm
for example).
So the project uses the NWNLoader for 3DObjects loading, javalayer library
for reading mp3 sound and music and several hints/pieces of code from the j3d code
repository (for intersections for example, since Java3d collision system had a memory
leak). I hope it will encourage people to try java3d for their next game and hopefully
Sun will also do some efforts in that direction.
The project is open-source and the related project in source-forge is
available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lacfd/. I should warn you that we are not
all java experts and even less in 3D so don't blame us for the quality of the code.
About the feedback of the project, my biggest deception is that it appeares
that many testers have reported that the game ran slowly even thought they had a 2Ghz
PC and a very good graphic card. I strongly feel that this is due to the graphic card
drivers but it's hard to defend yourself against these bugs when other classic 3D
games work on the same machines. I would also have liked to be able to use a loader
that allowed me not only to make my character and animations but also that would allow
me to use morph animation (which the NWNLoader doesn't do). The MD3 loader seems to be
promising on this point but I did not have yet the time to test it fully.
Well, it's about all for the speech. I'll be glad to here your comment on this
mailing list or on the sourceforge forum. The last question is who will get first on
the scores :).
Alec Lombra
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