Since the 48-hour game programming contest looms near, its time to publically test some of my base code i'll be using, which has quietly been adding to my test game Gems. Version, oo, lets say π / 4  
http://studenti.lboro.ac.uk/~cojc5/Programs/Gems03_11_2002.zip

Mainly I'm interested in how reliable this is on various systems, since i've only tested it on a few myself. A few notes:

• Everything should be nice and self contained, simply unzip and run the .jar
  
• Sorce is in the jar as well if anyones interested (although its pretty ugly in parts)
  
• Please excuse my crappy text generator, i can't draw characters   Plenty of work left to do on it..
  
• The bug with 'random' crashes should be fixed (GC kicking in and collecting my FloatBuffer, while I was still using the pointer..)
  
• Stencil buffer may cause hedious framerates on certain configurations (windowed and/or 16bit colour mainly) but give it a try anyway please.
  

System specs, framerate (counter lower right of board) and any other comments very welcome.
Thanks

Haha - Nice

I get the FileNotFoundException too - but the camara controls work nicely...

I am using a Celeron 366@550 with a GeForce 2 MX
Uses ~ 40 % CPU and runs fluently, except for some small skips here and there - but don't know what is causing it - might be my system...

Btw - I was running Windowed, since whenever I go to fullscreen in any Java 2 proggy my computer crashes (nv4_disp.dll)

Thanks everyone for trying it, i'm going to be working on it quite a bit this week hopefully fixing bugs and tweeking stuff.

distort.ms3d can be safely ignored, the mesh isnt used anywhere anymore, looks like I just forgot to take out the loading code  

FPS - I have no idea why its not displaying in windowed mode, does it display in fullscreen mode? Other than the initial setup, the rendering is all identical so it shouldnt make a difference.. Failing that, www.fraps.com will work as a temporary fix  :-/

Is anyone seeing the seems in the skybox? It seems that GL.CLAMP_TO_EDGE is missing from lwjgl   so I had to do a quick texture coord hack to try and make up for that

Hello!

I can't get it to work, but since I know jack shti (deliberate Jeff-like mispel) about OpenGL etc I'm probably doing something wrong... I get the same error with full screen on/off, different resolutions etc. My config:

XP, PIII@933MHz
Matrox G400
JDK 1.4.1_01

And (tataaa!), the actual error:
Available extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_Autodes
k_facet_normal GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_packe
d_pixels GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_edge_
clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_K
TX_buffer_region GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_swap_control
Failed to get function: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Failed to get function: wglGetExtensionsStringEXT

An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x0
Function=[Unknown.]
Library=(N/A)

NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
     just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
     reason and solutions.


Current Java thread:
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL.wglGetExtensionsStringEXT(Native Method)
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL.determineAvailableExtensions(GL.java:1550)
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL.init(GL.java:1655)
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.BaseGL.create(BaseGL.java:113)
       at Gems.ScreenManager.createDisplay(ScreenManager.java:172)
       at Gems.Gems.actionPerformed(Gems.java:134)
       at Gems.ScreenManager$ButtonHandler.actionPerformed(ScreenManager.java:2
61)
       at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:17
64)
       at javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(Abstra
ctButton.java:1817)
       at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel
.java:419)
       at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:257
)
       at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonL
istener.java:245)
       at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5093)
       at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:4890)
       at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1566)
       at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3598)
       at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1623)
       at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3439)
       at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:3450
)
       at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3165)

       at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3095)
       at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1609)
       at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1585)
       at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3439)
       at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:450)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchTh
read.java:197)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThre
ad.java:150)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:144)

       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:136)

       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:99)

Dynamic libraries:
0x00400000 - 0x00406000         c:\jdk1.4\bin\java.exe
0x77F50000 - 0x77FF7000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll
0x77E60000 - 0x77F46000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
0x77DD0000 - 0x77E5D000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x78000000 - 0x78086000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x77C10000 - 0x77C63000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCRT.dll
0x6D330000 - 0x6D45A000         c:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll
0x77D40000 - 0x77DCC000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
0x77C70000 - 0x77CB0000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
0x76B40000 - 0x76B6C000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINMM.dll
0x6D1D0000 - 0x6D1D7000         c:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\hpi.dll
0x6D300000 - 0x6D30D000         c:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\verify.dll
0x6D210000 - 0x6D229000         c:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\java.dll
0x6D320000 - 0x6D32D000         c:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\zip.dll
0x6D000000 - 0x6D0FB000         C:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\awt.dll
0x73000000 - 0x73023000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINSPOOL.DRV
0x76390000 - 0x763AC000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\IMM32.dll
0x771B0000 - 0x772D1000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
0x6D180000 - 0x6D1D0000         C:\jdk1.4\jre\bin\fontmanager.dll
0x73760000 - 0x737A4000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\ddraw.dll
0x73BC0000 - 0x73BC6000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x6D910000 - 0x6D981000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\D3DIM.DLL
0x74720000 - 0x74764000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSCTF.dll
0x10000000 - 0x1003A000         C:\download\Gems\lwjgl.dll
0x72280000 - 0x722A8000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\DINPUT.dll
0x5ED00000 - 0x5EDC6000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\OPENGL32.dll
0x68B20000 - 0x68B3E000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\GLU32.dll
0x0CF30000 - 0x0D00F000         C:\download\Gems\OpenAL32.dll
0x688F0000 - 0x688F9000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\HID.DLL
0x76670000 - 0x76757000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\SETUPAPI.DLL
0x69000000 - 0x690EC000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\G400Icd.dll
0x76C90000 - 0x76CB2000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\imagehlp.dll
0x6D510000 - 0x6D58D000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\DBGHELP.dll
0x77C00000 - 0x77C07000         C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
0x76BF0000 - 0x76BFB000         C:\WINDOWS\System32\PSAPI.DLL

Local Time = Mon Nov 04 10:35:39 2002
Elapsed Time = 9
#
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.4.1_01-b01 mixed mode)
#
# An error report file has been saved as hs_err_pid828.log.
# Please refer to the file for further information.
#


/Micke

Same error for me, cannot get it to work.

Cheers Cas, any word on CLAMP_TO_EDGE appearing any time soon?

Odd, Real Time Rendering seems to suggest that GL.CLAMP has been implemented to varying degrees of sucess, and that _TO_EDGE should generally be used instead - either way, CLAMP definatly doesnt do what it says on the tin on my Geforce2   (despite nVidia usually being pretty compliant with their drivers..)

It froze my PC right after saying that it couldn't get ahold of the keyboard  :-/

Win2k, Athalon XP 1600+, TNT2 Vanta

Still getting an error with the "latest" version - different one now, though:

...
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x0
Function=[Unknown.]
Library=(N/A)

NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
     just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
     reason and solutions.


Current Java thread:
       at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL.wglSwapIntervalEXT(Native Method)
       at Gems.ScreenManager.createDisplay(ScreenManager.java:192)
       at Gems.Gems.actionPerformed(Gems.java:134)
...


/M - Official Gems/LGWL bug reporter

I get the same error no matter what mode I try... (with or without fullscreen - I even tried no fullscreen, the exact same mode that I currently have) - no disco...

Just a note, though: I'm not whining and complaining in earnest here, I just figure you actually like to know that it isn't working ;-)

/M

Hi !

for the GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE problem, i had the same some days ago for my skybox, but now i use GL_CLAMP cause it works very well (witgh a Geforce 2). so i don't think you really need GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE. :-/

i can't play the game... i can move the camera, rotate it, but I can use the keys N, ESC, Q and SPACE...
the game is very smooth anyway...

++
Ch*man