I have been progamming my own FPS since october using java and JOGL to achieve creating quite good graphics with hardware rendering and other interesting features. The source code has been largely inspired from d3caster, written by Vincent Stahl but has been improved. Nevertheless, I have a few bugs in my current MD3 loader. There is a distance between the bottom and the top of the body of the model. I need some help to find the solution. I ported the MD3 loader written by Digiben into java. The original source code in C++ (and a MD3 model) is there :
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~0307467/docs/md3%20animation/
Please find enclosed my source code in java.
The original version of the game is here :
http://www.stahlforce.com/games/aa1/index.html
My version of the game is here :
http://tuer.cvs.sourceforge.net/tuer/bac_a_sable/
You need JRE 1.5 and JOGL beta 5 to test it. I really need some help. I have been looking for a solution to have my MD3 loder worked since about 2 weeks. I can't use true fullscreen mode under both windows and linux, it's very unpleasant. It would be nice if someone could give me some advice. That's only my second "try" of 3D video game programming.

Edit.: rather click here (Java 1.6 needed): http://tuer.sourceforge.net/tuer.jnlp

This is a screenshot of my game.

This is a screenshot of my game at the beginning of an attack phase. Notice the dynamic lighning and the shadows under some robots and the walls.

There is an excellent MD3 loader and Quake 3 maps viewer written in gl4java.

http://www11.brinkster.com/chapter23/divergence/divergence.html

If you're interested in this, I will probably adapt the code in order to use JOGL. Here we go!

Hi. Thanks for your reply. There is a makefile inside the zip file. To use the game, follow these steps :
- unzip the tuer_..._.zip
- go into the directory where "aa.jar" is
- enter "java -jar aa.jar"

If you want to recompile the source, follow these steps :
- unzip the tuer_..._.zip
- go into the directory where "aa.jar" is
- enter "make"

You need the JRE 1.5 and JOGL beta 5. As it seems to be complicated for you to use my game, I give you the link to download the JOGL version I use currently :
https://jogl.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=5476&expandFolder=5476&folderID=6750

To install JOGL, follow these steps :
- download jogl.jar (use the link above)
- go into your JRE directory
- copy jogl.jar in your directory called "/jre/lib/ext" or something like "/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07/jre/lib/ext/"
- download the jogl-natives.jar which matches with your operating system
- decompress the jar file
- copy libjogl.so, libjogl_awt.so, libjogl_cg.so and libjogl_drihack.so in the directory called "/jre/lib/i386/" or something like "/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07/jre/lib/i386/" (WINDOWS users, you obtain .dll files instead of .so files)

Use only aa.jar to launch the game.

The other jar files stores data used in the game, images and masks.

To use the loader, copy each class in a file, compile and enter "java MD3Viewer".

Sorry if it was frustrating not to be able to try my game and thank you again for your reply.

Far, far, far too hard. How about a nice easy webstart version?

I've found a tutorial about webstart. I will try to see how to deploy my game with it but I don't promise anything as I have no website.

The MD3 loader works fine now!!! I thank Ben Humphrey, Ron Sullivan,Thomas Hourdel and Frederic Kauffmann for their help and their sources.

Ben Humphrey's website : www.gametutorials.com
Frederic Kauffmann's website for the amber project : http://users.skynet.be/fabrice.kauffmann/theamberproject/

The result is good, the top of the body is now correctly linked to the bottom!!




If you need a MD3 loader for JOGL, I will update the packages of the source on sourceforge.net to allow you to download it. If you use LWJGL, download the source of the amber project.

Looks good!

TUER? like the the verb tuer in french? 

I understood the meaning of tuer since I'm a francophone as well.

The connection has timed out

The server at poux.ufr-info-p6.jussieu.fr is taking too long to respond.

Well, it was sort of an improvement:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.opengl.util.JOGLAppletLauncher
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
   at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
   at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   ... 10 more


Funky thing was that the progress bar for the java applet went WAY past 100% done 
It also crashed my browser so I couldn't switch tabs any more...

IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

go here :

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and click on "Run TUER"

If it don't work, enter "javaws Link removed" in the xterm under linux or "start"->"execute..." under windows.

Please tell me if there is problems with librairies.

My game using java webstart is now working!
My jogl.jnlp file may cause problems for 64-bit computers and some "old" macintoshs.

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I'm waiting for your feedback. It is slow because of raycasting as I said before. I hope I will satisfy your suggestions. As it is an homework, I will respect the objectives which had been fixed with my teacher but I will improve the game by listening to your suggestions.

Next objectives :
- remove raycasting
- use MD3 models and rendering "tools" (lists, vertex arrays, VBO) to increase the speed of the game
The address of my website is :
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If Java Webstart doesn't detect my configuration file as a jnlp file, go to command line and enter :
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I'm very very happy to allow you to play with my modest and tiny game

Works for me (from the command line) on XP/Java6. But were is the OpenGL part? These are still the same old raycasted graphics the engine on which you've based your game on was using. I expected it to use hardware acceleration...