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

About the Author     xixAbout the Technical Reviewers     xxiAcknowledgments     xxiiiIntroduction     xxvJava 3DIntroducing Java 3D     3Overview of Java 3D     3Overview of the Scene Graph     4Some Java 3D Scene Graph Nodes     5The HelloUniverse Scene Graph     5Java 3D Strengths     7The Scene Graph     7Performance     7Unique Features     8Java Integration     8Documentation and Examples     8Criticisms of Java 3D for Games Programming     9Java 3D's Level of Abstraction     9Java 3D Games     10Java 3D Support     12Alternatives to Java 3D     13Summary     14Get a Life (in 3D)     15The Game of Life     15Running Life3D     16Configuring Life3D     16A Life3D Screensaver     17An Overview of the Life3D Classes     18Deciding How to Start     19Displaying the 3D Game     20Integrating Java 3D and Swing     20WindowSizing     21Processing Key Presses     21Scene Graph Creation     22Lighting the Scene     24The Scene's Background     24Building the Cells Grid and Making It Behave     25Viewer Positioning     25Viewer Movement     27Behaviors in Java 3D     27A Time-Based Behavior     29Managing the Grid     29Accessing Properties     30Creating the Grid Scene Graph     31Updating the Cells States     33Will the Cell Live or Die?     34Rotating the Grid     36The Cell     37Building the Cell's Scene Graph     39Coloring the Cells     41Setting the Cell's Visibility     42Changing a Cell's Life State     43Visual Changes to a Cell     44Time for Screensavers     45Changing Life3D into a Screensaver     46Problems with Screensavers     47The SaverBeans SDK     47More Life Required?     47Summary     48Get a Life (the Java 6 Way)     49Life3D Basics     49An Overview of the Life3D Classes     50Making a Splash     52Animating a Clock     53Drawing onto a Splash     54Drawing the Clocks     54JAR Packaging     55Adding ClockAnimation to Life3D     55The Desktop API     56Using the Desktop Browser     56What Other Browser Capabilities Are There?     57The System Tray     57Creating Life3D's Popup Menu     58The Menu Contents     58Creating the Traylcon     59Building the Popup Menu     60Listening for Actions     62Using a Text Editor     64Launching an E-mail Client     65Listening for the Check Boxes     66Scripting in Java SE 6     67Executing a Script     68Communicating with a Script     69Speeding Things Up     72Calling Script Functions     73Letting a Script Use Java     74More Scripting Information     74Scripting in Life3D     74Initializing the Grid     75Changing the Grid's State     76Executing the Script Rules      78The Rules Script     80Summary     81The Colliding Grabbers     83Building Articulated Arms     83Class Diagrams for Arms3D     84Creating the Application Window     85Drawing the 3D Scene     86Processing the Keys     88Monitoring Grabber Joints     89Managing the Grabbers     90Adding the Grabbers to the Scene Graph     90Processing Keyboard Commands     93Translating the Grabbers     94Rotating a Grabber Joint     95Collecting the Collision Joints     96Collision Detection and Recovery     97Why Bother with JointsBehavior?     97Touching the Floor     98The Grabber     98Making the Grabber's Appearance     98The Grabber Shape     100Local and Global Coordinate Systems     105Making the Fingers     106Handling Rotation Commands     108Collision Detection     110Implementing Collision Detection     111Initializing the Bounding Spheres     114Positioning the Bounding Spheres      114Touching the Ground     115The Floor     116The Colored Tiles     118The Floor's Axes Labels     119Summary     120When Worlds Collide     121Odejava and ODE     121Installing Odejava     123Documentation, Examples, and Online Help     123Bouncing a Ball     124Three-Stage Simulation     125Initializing the Engines     126Initializing Static Objects     126Initializing Dynamic Objects     127Executing the Simulation     127Performing a Simulation Step     128Examining the Contact Points     129Cleaning Up     129Visualizing Balls in a Box     129Creating the Scene     131The Box     133Managing the Spheres     137A Sphere     139I'm Steppin' Out     142A Note of Application Development     143Summary     144A Multitextured Landscape     145Surveying the Landscape     145Building the Scene     147Creating the Floor     149Start the Balls Moving     150Moving Around the Scene     150The Multitextured Floor     150Heights Map Generation     153The Floor's Geometry     155The Floor's Appearance     158The Splash Shape     162The Splash Shape's Geometry     163The Splash Shape's Appearance     166Moving Balls     170Positioning the Ball     173Moving About     174Driving the Balls     176More Multitexturing     176Bump Mapping     176Shaders     177Summary     177Walking Around the Models     179Populating a Scene     179Class Diagrams for ObjView3D     180A Spherical Background     181A Skybox Background     182A Skybox Built with Quads     183Terragen and NConvert     184From Images to Textures     185Making the Skybox     186Texturing a Plane     187The Size of the Skybox     188Loading Models     189Loading OBJ Models     189The OBJ Model Loader      190Positioning a Model     193Ground Cover     195Manipulating the User's Viewpoint     197Positioning the User's Viewpoint     198Moving the Viewpoint at Runtime     198Setting Up the Key Behavior     199Processing a Key     199Summary     201More Backgrounds and Overlays     203Retained, Immediate, and Mixed Modes     203The Earth, Moon, and Mars     204Building the Scene     206The Background     209Some Variations on a Theme     209Spinning the Background     212Building the Scene and Terminating     213Rotating the Image     214Manipulating the Image     215Rotation and Clipping     215Avoiding Gaps in the Rotated Image     216Terminating the Thread     218Drawing the Background Image     218The Model Viewer with a Shifting Background and Overlays     219Setting Up the Canvas     221Modifying the Key Behavior     222A Canvas with a Background and Overlays     223Drawing the Background     225The Deep Blue Sea      227Adding Overlays     228Summary     229Nonstandard Input DevicesWebcam Snaps     233Webcam Snaps with TWAIN     233Displaying Pictures Using TWAIN     234Snapping a Picture Again and Again and...     235The TWAIN Capture Device     237TWAIN Timing Tests     240Webcam Snaps with JMF     241Again Taking Pictures Again and Again     242The Capture Device with JMF     243Comparing TWAIN and JMF Capture     247QTJ     247Other Uses for Webcam Snaps     248Summary     249Navigating a 3D Scene by Waving Your Arm     251Using the Wrist Strap     251Image Processing     253Image Processing Issues     254Dealing with the Issues     254Finding the Bands     255FindBands Class Diagrams     256Image Processing Overview     257The Bands Analyzer     257The Band Manager     263Representing a Blob     265Arm Navigation     266Creating the 3D Scene     267Moving the User's Viewpoint     268From Analysis to Action     269Other Approaches     270JAI     270ImageJ     271Image Processing Books     271Summary     271Building a Gamepad Controller with JInput     273JInput     273The Gamepad and Windows     274Installing and Testing JInput     276Examining the Input Devices     277The Other JInput Test Applications     279Three JInput Applications     280Listing the Controllers     281Viewing Controller Details     281Testing a Controller     286A Gamepad Controller     287Initializing the Controller     289Checking the Components     290Finding the Rumblers     292Polling the Device     292Reading the Stick Axes     293Reading the POV Hat     294Reading the Buttons     295Using the Rumbler     296Other Approaches     296Swing and JInput     297Constructing the Application     298Polling the Gamepad     299Alternatives to JInput     300Summary     301Gamepad Grabbers     303Example Overview     303Playing Sounds     305Background Music with SoundsPlayer     307Obstacle Noises with SoundsPlayer     307Managing Obstacles     308Making an Obstacle     309Making the Boxes     310Collision Detection     311Sending Input to the Grabbers     312Processing Keyboard Input     313Building a Grabber Operation for a Key Press     314Processing Gamepad Input     316Building a Grabber Operation for the Gamepad     318The Grabbers     319Connecting the Grabbers to the Camera     319Constructing the Grabbers     320Processing an Operation     321The Grabber Arms     326Summary     3263D Sound with JOAL     327Why JOAL and Java 3D?     327Background on OpenAL and JOAL     328What About JOAL?     328Installing JOAL     329Managing JOAL Sounds     330Initializing JOAL     330Initializing the Listener      331JOAL Clean Up     333Loading a Sound     333Positioning a Source     336Playing, Stopping, and Pausing a Source     337Moving the Listener     337Turning the Listener     338Using JOALSoundMan     340Moving a Source     340Moving the Listener     341Moving the Listener Between Sources     342Turning the Listener     343JOAL and Swing     344Other Source Types     346Ambient Sounds     346Cone Sounds     346Summary     347The P5 Glove     349Introducing the P5 Glove     349Using Kenner's Java API     351Examining the Glove's Data     352What ShowGlove Displays     353ShowGlove Overview     355Initializing and Terminating the Glove     356Polling the Glove     356The Glove     357Updating and Accessing the Glove     358Closing Down     359A Specialized Glove Class     359Initializing the Glove     360Updating and Closing      360Getting the Position     360On a Roll     361Clenching My Fist     362Pressing the A Button     362A Test Rig for FPSGlove     363Visiting the Musical Cow     365The Glove Behavior     366Adding a Musical Cow     370Initializing the Viewpoint     371Cleaning Up     371The P5 Glove and JInput     372Summary     373JOGLTwo JOGL Programming Frameworks     377What Is JOGL?     377Installing JOGL     378The Callback Framework     379Using GLCanvas     379Using GLJPanel     380Rotating a GLCanvas Cube with Callbacks     381Building the Top-Level Window     382Connecting the Canvas     383Building the Listener     383Measuring FPS Accuracy     388Rotating a GLJPanel Cube with Callbacks     389Building the Panels     391The Background Panel     391Making the 3D Background Transparent     392Timing the GLJPanel     393More Visual Effects with GLJPanel      393Callback Summary     393The Active Rendering Framework     393Rotating a Cube with Active Rendering     395Building the Application     396Dealing with Window Events     397Preparing the Canvas     397Thread Rendering     398The Game Life Cycle Methods     404Statistics Reporting     405Java 3D and JOGL     405More Information on JOGL and OpenGL     406Summary     407Touring the World     409Application Details     409Constructing the Canvas     411The Camera Position     412Responding to Key Presses     413Let the Rendering Commence     416Rendering Initialization     417Loading Textures     418Lighting the Scene     419Creating the Ground Shapes     420The Rendering Loop     421Updating the Game     421Rendering the Scene     423Drawing the Tree Billboard     423Drawing the Ground Shapes     426The Planet Earth     428The Skybox     430Adding a 2D Overlay      433Drawing the Floor     435Drawing the Tiles     435Drawing the Axes     437Summary     438Loading Models     439Overviews of the Examples     439The OBJ File Format     442Shape Statements     442Grouping Statements     443Material Use Statements     443The MTL File Format     443The OBJ File Loader     444Reading in the OBJ File     446Reading a Face     447Reading in an MTL File     449Recording Material Use     450Centering and Resizing a Model     451Creating a Display List for the Model     452Finding a Material     452Rendering with a Material     453Rendering a Face     455Drawing a Model     457When to Create the Display List     457Viewing a Model     457Loading the Model     458Drawing the Model     459Other JOGL Model Loaders     459The TourModelsGL Appiication     460Adding Models     461Let's Be Picky      463Gleem: A Different Way of Picking     469A Singing Penguin     470The Fog Descends     471Summary     473Index     475