Have fun!

Will do! Congrats on all those successful, BIG, changes.

Cool, it looks like its about to sputter out.  Very smooth animation on my box.

I know this is just test for smoke and nothing to do with sound, but as a side note, I opened up the applet in new tab in FireFox3. When I closed that tab, the helicopter sound continued to play until I ended the java thread in Vistas task manager.  

Ok, I uploaded a new version. This one allows you to choose a resolution from a list.

http://files.filefront.com/MDjar/;13738529;/fileinfo.html

Oh, and by the way. I renamed Main2 to Main, so run Main.

Well, after piddling around for I think two years, I finally have something in the area of simulation to post on the project forums.

I put this little "thing" together this morning for my mom.
Here's a screen shot. The island mass and house calmly rotate around the y axis.

Her favorite spot in the world would be on a beach, so I thought why not use my favorite graphics engine to put her there? All in crappy textures.



If you want to try it out. Here it is. The main class is Main and I ran it with -Xmx300m
The jar file does not have the main class specified in the manifest so you have to run it in the command line with say

java -cp jpct.jar;lwjgl.jar;MD.jar -Xmx300m Main

assuming jpct,lwjgl,MD and the lwjgl dll are all in the local directory.

http://files.filefront.com/MDjar/;13738529;/fileinfo.html

Usually games render a texture quad (rectangle) with a transparent texture of the flare. Obviously, that quad is always facing the camera. For multiple flares it's the same, but their distributed in a line from the light source to the camera. An example of the first one in WET (quake 3 arena based engine):

Thanks for the tip! It looks like that would be good for a glow effect.

BTW: I don't like lens flares. When playing a first person shooter for example, you usually simulate the world like a human would see it.

It can get annoying. In Star Trek legacy it can be really annoying, but my project isn't a game: more of a demo, test thing.

No human being sees lens flares without looking through a camera, which is not what you usually would do while fighting enemies...

I guess you don't wear glasses, at least not at night. Outside at night, I see lots of lense flare from just about every light source.

A small update: I gave that s**t another try (and from the wording, you can guess the outcome...) using the latest Android SDK version. They have removed the OpenGLContext without giving any hint of what to use instead. Great! Combine that with a virtually non-existent documention for most GL-related classes (and why on earth are they using a doc-format that you can't link into Eclipse while they provide an Eclipse-plugin for Android?) and you have lots of fun. Anyway, i managed to port my old port from 2007 to this new version somehow...and it doesn't even start. The emulator bombs out with some "libhgl.so not found" message when trying to create the EGLDisplay and all calls to GL fail afterwards. I've given up again and i'm waiting for the next release...maybe...

Sounds like that wonderfully hideous system called Android to me. Android was so stupidly complex when I checked it out, and the docs confusing.

Its great how you continue to update this. I don't need it yet, but I will definitely check it out in the future.