Okay, I'll play around with the settings. I appreciate the help. Hopefully I can get my desired effect.

How did you achieve such perfect lighting in Paradroidz? I looked through your level code, and your placing walls by referancing a text file and placing them accordingly - so your levels are not in one 3DS object file. Okay anyway, so I tried loading my walls and floors the same way, individually placing them (I already wanted to do it this way before I even found the Paradroidz source) accordingly. But my lighting is all messy. Take a look: http://www.jamisongames.info/Screenshot.jpg

Here's some of my code:
String map[] = {
"    ********",
"    *......*",
"  ***......*",
"  *........***",
"********.....*",
"*......*.....******",
"*......D..........*",
"*......*..........*",
"********..........*",
"   *..............*",
"   ****************"
};

.....

public void Init() {
ObjectHolder.init();
world.setAmbientLight(200, 200, 200);
camera.rotateCameraX((float)Math.toRadians(32));
camera.setPosition(new SimpleVector(10, -10, -5));

world.addLight(new SimpleVector(10, -0.5, 10), 255, 0, 0);
world.setLightDiscardDistance(0, 5);

BuildLevel();
}

public void BuildLevel() {
int mapH = map.length;
for (int i=0; i<mapH; i++) {
int mapW = map[i].length();
for (int j=0; j<mapW; j++) {
char c = map[i].charAt(j);
if (c == '*') {
Object3D wall = new Object3D(ObjectHolder.getObject(0));
float bBox[] = wall.getMesh().getBoundingBox();
wall.translate(bBox[1]*j, 0, bBox[5]*i);
world.addObject(wall);
}
if (c == '.') {
Object3D floor = new Object3D(ObjectHolder.getObject(1));
float bBox[] = floor.getMesh().getBoundingBox();
floor.translate(bBox[1]*j, 0, bBox[5]*i);
world.addObject(floor);
}
}
}
world.buildAllObjects();
}

.....
The "....." represents code that's not necessary to be shown.

well 10,10,10 is not white, is almost black, anyway you should see something, let me check the code.

Well, whenever I was rendering in software mode, 10, 10, 10 was perfect (sometimes even too bright).

Here's the code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.threed.jpct.*;
import com.threed.jpct.util.*;

public class Hardware3D {
int fps = 60;
int gameW = 640;
int gameH = 480;
boolean running = true;

World world;
Camera camera;
FrameBuffer buffer;
KeyMapper keyMapper;
TextureManager texMan;

Object3D object;

public Hardware3D() {
texMan = TextureManager.getInstance();

Config.glWindowName = "Hardware 3D";
Config.glSetDesiredVideoMode(32, 16, 60, false);
buffer = new FrameBuffer(gameW, gameH, buffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
buffer.enableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL);
buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);

world = new World();
camera = world.getCamera();

world.addLight(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -10), new Color(100, 100, 100));

texMan.addTexture("block", new Texture("Block.png"));
object = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
object.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(object);

world.buildAllObjects();

camera.setPosition(new SimpleVector(0, 0, -5));

keyMapper = new KeyMapper();
Render();
}

public void ExitNow() {
System.exit(-1);
}

public void Render() {
while(running) {
buffer.clear();
world.renderScene(buffer);
world.draw(buffer);
buffer.update();
buffer.displayGLOnly();

Controls();
GameLoop();

try {
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000/fps);
} catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
ExitNow();
}

public void Controls() {
int k = keyMapper.poll().getKeyCode();

if (k == KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE) running = false;
}

public void GameLoop() {
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new Hardware3D();
}
}
(I moved the camera forward by 5 meters just because the model was too far back - it made no rendering differance except -5m is closer.)

EDIT:
Note that I was playing around with the lights and remember Config.setAmbientLight() and it looks better with ambient light color 200, 200, 200.

1. Yes, the view is far enough back (since it renders at that same distance in software mode, and the model's size is 2m).

2. I didn't think lights were required. In software mode it renders without lights, or is OpenGL differant?

Hello all,

I'm trying to render in OpenGL Hardware mode, however, the following is thrown as soon as buffer.clear() is called.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glClearColor(GL11.java:562)
        at com.threed.jpct.GLRenderer.execute(Unknown Source)
        at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clearHardware(Unknown Source)
        at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clear(Unknown Source)
        at com.threed.jpct.FrameBuffer.clear(Unknown Source)
        at Hardware3D.Render(Hardware3D.java:35)
        at Hardware3D.run(Hardware3D.java:27)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

Here is my code:
import java.awt.*;
import com.threed.jpct.*;

public class Hardware3D implements Runnable {
int fps = 60;
int gameW = 640;
int gameH = 480;

World world;
Camera camera;
FrameBuffer buffer;

public Hardware3D() {
buffer = new FrameBuffer(gameW, gameH, buffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);
buffer.enableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL, IRenderer.MODE_OPENGL);

world = new World();
camera = world.getCamera();

(new Thread(this)).start();
}

public void run() {
while(true) {
try {
Render();
GameLoop();
Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000/fps);
} catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
}

public void Render() {
buffer.clear();
world.renderScene(buffer);
world.draw(buffer);
buffer.update();
buffer.displayGLOnly();
}

public void GameLoop() {
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new Hardware3D();
}
}

I could not find any tutorial or any kind of information on how to render in OpenGL Hardware mode, so I looked through the documentation. I'm assuming I did something wrong here. I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Hello all. I'm having trouble getting collision detection with the CollisionListener to work. Here's some code for two objects - the second one being the object that collides with the first object.
block = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
block.setCollisionMode(Object3D.COLLISION_CHECK_OTHERS);
block.translate(0, 3, 0);
block.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(block);

block2 = Loader.load3DS("Block.3ds", 1f)[0];
block2.setCollisionMode(Object3D.COLLISION_CHECK_SELF);
block2.addCollisionListener(this);
block2.translate(0, -3, 0);
block2.setTexture("block");
world.addObject(block2);
this is a JPanel which implements CollisionListener, and here's the methods for it.
public void collision(CollisionEvent e) {
System.out.println("HIT!");
}

public boolean requiresPolygonIDs() {
return false;
}
But whenever the second object (obviously) collides with the first object, it does not print out "HIT!" as it should. What's wrong here? Please help me.

Thank you,
Jamison