Pro Java 6 3D Game Development - Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL APIs

Contents at a Glance

Contents

About the Author

About the Technical Reviewers

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Is This Book for Me?

What’s This Book About?

What’s This Book Not About?

Where’s the CD/ Code?

How Is This Book Different from KGPJ?

Java for Games Programming: Are You Joking?

What About Java on Games Consoles?

Java 3D

Introducing Java 3D

Overview of Java 3D

Overview of the Scene Graph

Java 3D Strengths

Criticisms of Java 3D for Games Programming

Alternatives to Java 3D

Summary

Get a Life (in 3D)

The Game of Life

Running Life3D

An Overview of the Life3D Classes

Deciding How to Start

Displaying the 3D Game

Scene Graph Creation

Behaviors in Java 3D

A Time- Based Behavior

Managing the Grid

The Cell

Time for Screensavers

More Life Required?

Summary

Get a Life (the Java 6 Way)

Life3D Basics

An Overview of the Life3D Classes

Making a Splash

The Desktop API

The System Tray

Scripting in Java SE 6

Scripting in Life3D

Summary

The Colliding Grabbers

Building Articulated Arms

Class Diagrams for Arms3D

Creating the Application Window

Drawing the 3D Scene

Processing the Keys

Monitoring Grabber Joints

Managing the Grabbers

The Grabber

Implementing Collision Detection

The Floor

The Colored Tiles

The Floor’s Axes Labels

Summary

When Worlds Collide

Odejava and ODE

Bouncing a Ball

Visualizing Balls in a Box

A Note of Application Development

Summary

A Multitextured Landscape

Surveying the Landscape

Building the Scene

The Multitextured Floor

The Splash Shape

Moving Balls

Driving the Balls

More Multitexturing

Summary

Walking Around the Models

Populating a Scene

Class Diagrams for ObjView3D

A Spherical Background

A Skybox Background

A Skybox Built with Quads

Loading Models

Ground Cover

Manipulating the User’s Viewpoint

Summary

More Backgrounds and Overlays

Retained, Immediate, and Mixed Modes

The Earth, Moon, and Mars

Spinning the Background

The Model Viewer with a Shifting Background and Overlays

Summary

Nonstandard Input Devices

Webcam Snaps

Webcam Snaps with TWAIN

Displaying Pictures Using TWAIN

TWAIN Timing Tests

Webcam Snaps with JMF

Comparing TWAIN and JMF Capture

QTJ

Other Uses for Webcam Snaps

Summary

Navigating a 3D Scene by Waving Your Arm

Using the Wrist Strap

Image Processing

Finding the Bands

Arm Navigation

Other Approaches

Summary

Building a Gamepad Controller with JInput

JInput

The Gamepad and Windows

Installing and Testing JInput

Three JInput Applications

A Gamepad Controller

Swing and JInput

Alternatives to JInput

Summary

Gamepad Grabbers

Example Overview

Playing Sounds

Managing Obstacles

Collision Detection

Sending Input to the Grabbers

The Grabbers

The Grabber Arms

Summary

3D Sound with JOAL

Why JOAL and Java 3D?

Background on OpenAL and JOAL

Managing JOAL Sounds

Using JOALSoundMan

Other Source Types

Summary

The P5 Glove

Introducing the P5 Glove

Using Kenner’s Java API

Examining the Glove’s Data

The Glove

A Specialized Glove Class

A Test Rig for FPSGlove

Visiting the Musical Cow

The P5 Glove and JInput

Summary

JOGL

Two JOGL Programming Frameworks

What Is JOGL?

Installing JOGL

The Callback Framework

Rotating a GLCanvas Cube with Callbacks

Rotating a GLJPanel Cube with Callbacks

Callback Summary

The Active Rendering Framework

Rotating a Cube with Active Rendering

Java 3D and JOGL

More Information on JOGL and OpenGL

Summary

Touring the World

Application Details

Constructing the Canvas

The Camera Position

Responding to Key Presses

Let the Rendering Commence

Rendering Initialization

The Rendering Loop

Updating the Game

Rendering the Scene

Drawing the Tree Billboard

Drawing the Ground Shapes

The Planet Earth

The Skybox

Adding a 2D Overlay

Drawing the Floor

Summary

Loading Models

Overviews of the Examples

The OBJ File Format

The OBJ File Loader

Viewing a Model

Other JOGL Model Loaders

The TourModelsGL Application

Summary

Index