Thanks. I know what you mean. I wrote the live streaming stack for BB10 (at QNX). I built a nice code base and have implemented the full stack in 4~5 months. Then, I spent 1.5 years or so making that stack to work with dozens of media content providers who had different interpretation of protocol, codecs and everything else you can think of. My beautiful base code became a mess in order to work with all providers.

Both would be welcome 
However, I do not want you to waist much of your time.

Those effects are desired. However, I need to publish this game ASAP in order to take advantage or the political momentum.
If it will demand too much investigation/learning then I may postpone these effects to a rev 2.

Thanks,
Marcelo

Hello Egon,

About

keep in mind that shaders aren't as fast on mobile devices as the fixed function pipeline in many cases

Before I create/bake my normalmaps is your statements still valid for the 2014 and beyond devices?
I was considering to use NormalMaps for provide depth for all doors/windows for the building that I am modeling. Would rather be better to use geometry for them?

Naroth looks fantastic. Left a rate/review there. It is a big motivator for anyone to choose jPCT. I am sold already... will bug you guys for the nex few months :-)

My game will be much simpler. It has political motivation to fight corruption in Brazil... it will focus more on sending a message than the gameplay itself.
However, I believe that will be fun. A corrupt guy is climbing a particular building in a KingKong style; the Player, first person with a small chopper cockpit overlay, will flies around the building shooting fruits towards the kong. The idea is to stop him to reach the top. surround the building are other building (a couple 3D but most drawn in the Skybox). Kong can throw back rocks and may damage the chopper. All these elements have political meaning. I want to deliver this game ASAP to take advantage of the current political context; otherwise, It may not make much sense anymore.

Thanks for your help,
Varanda

Hello,

I am searching on the forum for performance numbers but I was not able to find much data.
I would like to get a sense how much vertexes I can have in my scene to get >15 fps running in a 2 year old Android.
Also, how "expense" is bone animation (if relevant in terms of FPS dropping).

Is there any topic where developers report numbers like that?

Thanks,
Varanda

Thank you all,

I will do my homework and play a bit with jPCT.
For the records my name is Marcelo Varanda, Brazilian/Canadian. I write code for living (mostly for embedded in C, some LUA, Python, very little in java). My websites are:

http://www.cglabs.com.br
http://www.cglabs.ca

Latest published game (gameplay3d engine):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gclabs.gaminandes_sp

Latest published animation:
https://youtu.be/1CUxdGwYU3U

Egon: I believe that you are the guy behind jPCT; amazing having guys like you providing foundation and support for the game community. I believe that collaboration will transform our world for better.

Anyways...  I may bug you guys more for a while.

Thanks once again,
Varanda

Hello All,

I wrote in the past a couple mobile Games and Apps using BlackBerry Java, C++ (Gameplay3d), Objective-C.
I am starting a new simple game for Android (maybe port to iOS if game is successful). As the last GE I used was based on NDK portability was a bit of problem across the diversity of Androids themselves. I came across JPCT and it looks like a very solid project. Therefore, I would like to consider using it. I someone could help answering the following questions I would appreciate:

1- How lighter (or heavier) is jPCT comparing to Unity3D in terms of footprint and performance? a list of pro/cons on jPCT vs Unity would be very appreciated.

2- I am very proficient in Blender. How easy is to export models with Armature to jPCT? Is required another library?

3- I am not very familiar with the latest Android Studio. I was not able to run the two sample after frustrading hours dealing with gradle. Tried to run under Eclipse but was not much luckier. Is there samples out there that builds fine for the latest Android Studio (crappy gradle)

4- Would jPCT-AE  run under iOS in the future?

5- For gameplay3d.org I collaborated with a Blender add-on and a scene viewer for that engine. That made very easy to create a scene in Blender and see the very same in gameplay3d. Anyone wrote a similar utility using jPCT? That would be very handy.


Thanks a lot in advance,
Varanda