I'm trying to create a flickering glow. To that end, I wrote the following thickening method in a vertex controller. The problem happens when the base object, from which the glow object is created, is rotated because the glow appears to be modified in worldspace as opposed to in objectspace. What should I do to calculate the x/z distortion in objectspace?

     public void thicken(final float deltaTime) {
SimpleVector[] vertices = this.getSourceMesh();
SimpleVector[] destination = this.getDestinationMesh();
for (int i = 0; i < vertices.length; i++) {
     SimpleVector v = vertices[i];
     v.x *= (1f+deltaTime);
     v.z *= (1f+deltaTime);
     destination[i] = v;
}
this.updateMesh();
     }


I called this MergeAndSerialize because it first exports each frame of your character's animation as an OBJ (I did not write the included MaxScript), then it creates a single serialized file with a jpct animation. Hope it helps someone else: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1aumqalafjmietb/MergeAndSerialize.rar?dl=0

Since EasyOgreExporter exports all clips into a single animation, I'm forced to write a parser. How, then, might I split a SkinClipSequence of one SkinClip into a SkinClipSequence of two or more?

I think that you have to update the serialization stuff for Java 10. Would you?

One of my ships is shiny. I have a vague memory of talking to you about environment mapping with the software renderer. I fully expected that the environment map would not work with the software renderer, but my expectation was that the diffuse map would be completely replaced by the environment map and that the environment map would be treated as diffuse. This is not so. Ambient map acts like the ambient map but the diffuse channel disappears. To that end, I tried writing the following method. But obviously, the result is that the ambient map is just colored by the diffuse. My question, then, is since the environment mapping is already performing as expected, would it be possible to just make the diffuse channel work with it?

     private void combineAmbientAndDiffuse() {
Texture tex = TextureManager.getInstance().getTexture("EnvironmentMap");
tex.add(TextureManager.getInstance().getTexture("Starfighter.png"), .5f);
     }


I'm trying to make a little level editor. Right now, all it will do is to allow you to position some enemies by clicking on the 3d map. I'm not very interested in the y coordinate, because they will place themselves relative to the floor's height). But the following code always places the enemiies in the same (marked) spot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r73iukqn0wdtcjs/LE.jpg?dl=0

     public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
Point p = e.getPoint();
SimpleVector p3d = Interact2D.reproject2D3DWS(camera, buffer, p.x, p.y);
System.out.println("p3d: "+p3d);
p3d.y = -2000f;
objects[numberOfObjects++] = Primitives.getCube(100f);
objects[numberOfObjects-1].build();
objects[numberOfObjects-1].translate(p3d);
theWorld.addObject(objects[numberOfObjects-1]);
     }


The following code doesn't crash with Object3D.rotateY(...) but crashes with a NullPointerException on Object3D.rotateMesh().

if (ship instanceof Blah) {
     ship.body.rotateY((float)Math.PI*.5f);
     ship.body.rotateMesh();
     ship.body.clearRotation();
}