I am not sure, but maybe you should try to start your applications like: java -Xms256m -Xmx512m gamePackage.GameTest   You can change the values to something really high if you need more memory.

^_^ I emailed you the running example to "hostmaster" email. Please do ask me for anything or everything about the code~!

I am simply a dreamer. Even though I have a bachelors in Computer Science, I prefer to be 3d modelling and animating moreso than programming. I have no prior experience to game development. Sadly, I spend most of my days either at work making webpages (I actually do more than that, but that pretty much sums the job description all up) or playing mmorpgs. I am still in the process of re-lighting my passion for game development, but for now, I enjoy reading all the posts in this forum.

GenericVertexController.getSourceMesh()

Description copied from interface: IVertexController
Returns the source mesh's vertex data, i.e. the vertex-data that needs modification. Every SimpleVector in this array represents a vertex in the mesh. However, there's no information which vertex exactly (because they don't have ids or something).
Read the data from this array, but don't modify it.

There is also a GenericVertexController.getDestinationMesh() for modifying the mesh dynamically... A good example can be gotten from: http://www.jpct.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58&highlight=sin

Blender is the same as 3D Studio in terms of functionality. The biggest difference is that one of the two is cheaper. I have not tried Blender, but I am sure that the software can do everything that 3D Studio can; I still like 3D Studio though...

I have no idea if this compiles or work, but that code pretty much holds the idea of what you will need to do to load multiple files and make an animation from it.


//simply merges all of the meshes together
public static Object3D meshMerge(Object3D[] arrayObject3D){
  Object3D resultingObject3D = new Object3D(0);
 
  for(int i=0; i<arrayObject3D.length; i++){
    Object3D tempObject3D = arrayObject3D[i];
    resultingObject3D = Object3D.mergeObjects(resultingObject3D, tempObject3D);
  }
  return resultingObject3D;
}

public void initAnimation(){
  this.animation = new Animation(3);
  this.animation.addKeyFrame(meshMerge(Loader.load3DS("man01.3ds", 1)).getMesh());
  this.animation.addKeyFrame(meshMerge(Loader.load3DS("man02.3ds", 1)).getMesh());
  this.animation.addKeyFrame(meshMerge(Loader.load3DS("man03.3ds", 1)).getMesh());
}


Don't forget to create the main object, set the animation to this.animation, and then play the animation. Here are the following functions to do so:

new Object3D(Object3D obj)
Object3D.setAnimationSequence(Animation anim)
Object3D.animate(float index, int seq)

The loadObjectFromFolder will most likely contain an instance of File so that you can have an idea of what files are inside a particular directory. From there, the function will be loading each Object3D and making that a big animation.

Imagine a plane that is created by Primitives.getPlane(9,1). The wireframe of the plane looks like a bunch of vertices in a grid-like shape. How can I get GenericVertexController.getSourceMesh() to give me the vertices in a row-column fashion?

Does Egon's answer about using addTriangle() seem helpful to you? I am going to read the source that he mentioned later...