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Can I use jMonkeyEngine to make a closed source game?
Can I just share the jMonkeyEngine code and keep my code closed or would I have to make my game open as well? Sorry if this is a noob question.
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How to walk stairs and slopes with jme3?
We seem to be several programmers having the same problem i.e. when upgrading to the BetterCharacterControl we lose the functionality of walking steep planes and stairs.
The controller that I should ...
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How to identify whether the boundingvolume intersects with walls or floor when it doesnt return normals?
My game in jMonkey is the kind that use will have to place objects in a scene (which consist of walls and slabs and floor). All my models are centered at origin. When the user click a point I use ray ...
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How to place an object so that it does not overlap the objects in my scene?
In my game, the user has to click at a point to place an object (mesh). I can cast a ray and find the horizontal point where the object can be translated and then attached to rootNode to display it. ...
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Are rendering exception due to device or engine?
While developing games/simulations for android using jMonkey, I have noticed whatever that runs on PC doesn’t many times run on android and displays various kinds of exceptions one of them is ...
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jMonkeyEngine Pros and Cons
I want to know some good reasons to use jMonkeyEngine for a Java 3d game development tool instead of just creating a game with LWJGL myself? I want to know a good reason I should choose this tool. ...
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Endless terrain in jMonkey using TerrainGrid fails to render
I have started to learn game development using jMonkey engine. I am able to create single tile of terrain using TerrainQuad but as the next step I'm stuck at making it infinite. I have gone through ...
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JMonkey - Create health bar?
How can I create a health bar in JMonkey? Is there some documentation that can help?
I am working on a game, specifically “Battleship”, using the JMonkey Engine (JME3). I want to add health bars on ...
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Best practise for representing large spaces in a scene graph
I'm attempting to represent a procedurally generated world in a scene graph, specifically in the Jmonkey engine (Jme3). To make this managable I have broken up the world into smaller chunks. Each ...
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How do I export my Blender model to OGRE XML format for jMonkeyEngine 3?
I'm an amateur software engineer with several simple 2D-game projects under my belt. I'v recently turned my attention towards creating a basic 3D game, nothing too fancy, just to get a grip on things.
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Moving an object (pong paddle) along the x,y axis in 3d-space with mouse/touch
First of all: Sorry, my English isn't quiet good, I'm very new in 3D and I'am using JMonkeyEngine.
What I would like to do?:
A 3d pong game and I want to control the paddle with the mousecursor ...
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How free is BSD / CC-BY usage?
I looked at blendswap.com where there are models that I want to make walk along a wall in this level.
AFAIK I can take this file and sell it or did I misunderstand licensing?
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How do I properly center Nifty GUI elements on screen?
I am new to JME3 game engine but I know Android XML GUI layouts pretty good. I have a simple layout here and I cant figure out what is wrong. Here is my XML code:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Models with more than one mesh in JMonkeyEngine
I’m a new jmonkey engine developer and I’m beginning to import models. I tried to import simple models and no problems appeared, but when I export some obj models having more than one mesh in the ...
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Convenience of mySQL over xml
Currently I use XML to store specific information to correctly load a few things such as a list of specfied characters, scenes and music, Once more I use JAXB in combination with standard ...
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How to make NPC AI for my jme3 ninja game
My scene has a main character who is a ninja and an enemy which is a goblin and one monster but the monster has no animation so we can wait with him:
How can I make the goblin actually move instead ...
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Which models and scene to use for a dungeon game?
I use jme3 with some builtin models and scenes and I've managed to put together a third person 3D scene.
I now want to program some attack and/or fights and I think that skeleton warriors and/or ...
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Engine and level of detail for maze / labyrinth / dungeon scene?
My question is similar to these:
Algorithm for generating a 2d maze
To scene graph or not to scene graph?
I.e. in this case should I use jme3 or some other engine (I heard unreal offers a free ...
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Correct way to export from blender to ogre format?
My question here is similar to this since I'm using jmonkeyengine and I'm looking for models and scenes to populate my 3D world
Open-source 3D models easily usable in OGRE3D/jMonkeyEngine
When I ...
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Can't export Blender model for use in jMonkeyEngine SDK
I have a scene rendered in blender called "civ1.blend" which contains multiple materials (for example, I have one called "white"). I want to use this model in jMonkeyEngine, so I used the OGRE ...
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Scrolling Text in jMonkey
I am looking for a way to include scrolling text boxes in a jMonkey game. I have, of course, looked around online and could not find any examples or libraries that fit.
My goal is to have "quests" ...
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How to invert background pixel's color
I'm writing a game and map editor using Java and jMonkeyEngine. In the map editor, I've got a brush done by wireframed sphere. My problem is: I want to make it visible everywhere, so I want to invert ...
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jMonkey Quest Database
I am building a game in jMonkey (Java) and I have so far only used default quest text. But now I need to start populating a lot of quests with text. My design requires A LOT of quests texts.
What is ...
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When attaching AI to a vehicle should I define all steps or try Line of Sight?
This problem is related to an intersection simulation I am building for university. I will try to make it as general as possible.
I am trying to assign AI to a vehicle using the JMonkeyEngine ...
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JMonkeyEngine display a spatial in a Nifty GUI interface
I want to display a spatial (or the rendering of a spatial/scene) in my HUD interface. I'm really not sure how to go with this. I have search the documentation, but all the queries I search yields no ...
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Import 3ds into JMonkeyEngine 3
I have asked this question on SO, but I think it will be more suitable here.
Basically, we are trying to import an animated character body (with skeleton) from 3D Studio Max to JMonkeyEngine 3, but ...
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How can I get rid of the diagonal wires in wireframe boxes?
I create a box with a material and set that material to be wire framed.
Box b1 = new Box(new Vector3f(1.0f, -2.0f, 1.0f), 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
Geometry geom1 = new Geometry("Box", b1);
Material mat1 = ...
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Teaching game development with Ruby [closed]
I want to teach game development to kids as part of a course (year-long) involving Ruby. Unfortunately it looks like the game development kits available in Ruby (even in the form of bindings) are ...
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Nifty popup fails to register
I'm new to Nifty GUI, so I'm following a tutorial here for making popups. For now, I'm just trying to get a very basic "test" popup to show, but I get multiple errors and none of them make much sense. ...
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How can I rotate a sphere in response to mouse movement?
I'm using jMonkeyEngine to develop a game. I'm good at scripting, but math usually goes over my head. I tried the Wiki page for Quaternion, but I was far too confused to figure this out myself :P
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