Out of curiosity mostly, what type of site would I need to host a game applet?  I have a phone modem so a home server is out.

I don't know if I missed this before, but I'm getting an error loading the animation files, now.  It's says "bounding box missing in this mesh".  I did the stand load exactly the same, but it doesn't give me an error for that, but when I load the walk meshes, it gives me that error.

edit: did a search and found it.  It needed a build.

Well, I found some animation code and tried to work it into my helloworld app that's being converted to my game.  Right now, the mouse loads and I can move him right and left with the arrow keys.  I added the animation code as shown(I'm including the game loop in case it's throwing something off).  Basically, nothing at all happens.  It works just like it did before I added the animation code.  No errors are thrown.  I tested the walk models as the stand and they all loaded.  The stand model is still being displayed in the game.

    Mouse = loadModel("stand.3ds",1);           
  Mouse.translate(0, 15, 0);
Mouse.build();
  Mouse.createTriangleStrips();
TextureManager tm = TextureManager.getInstance();
    Texture tex=new Texture("fur.jpg");
    tm.addTexture("fur", tex);    
    tex = new Texture("red.jpg"); 
    tm.addTexture("red", tex);    
    Mouse.setTexture("fur");
world.addObject(Mouse);
  Animation walk = new Animation(4);
  walk.addKeyFrame(loadModel("walk1.3ds",1).getMesh());
  walk.addKeyFrame(loadModel("walk2.3ds",1).getMesh());
  walk.addKeyFrame(loadModel("walk3.3ds",1).getMesh());
  walk.addKeyFrame(loadModel("walk4.3ds",1).getMesh());
  Mouse.setAnimationSequence(walk);
  Mouse.animate(1);
  Mouse.rotateY(3.1416f/2f);
 
    camera=world.getCamera();
    camera.setPosition(0,5,-75);
    camera.lookAt(Mouse.getTransformedCenter());


    Object3D platform = loadModel("platform.3ds",1);
         
platform.translate(0, 20, 0);
platform.build();
    platform.setTexture("red");
world.addObject(platform);
}

private void loop() throws Exception {
fb = new FrameBuffer(800, 600, FrameBuffer.SAMPLINGMODE_NORMAL);
Canvas canvas=fb.enableGLCanvasRenderer();
fb.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_SOFTWARE);
frame.add(canvas);

while (frame.isShowing()) {
poll();
if(left){
  if(goingRight){
  if(rotL < 16){
  Mouse.rotateY(3.1416f/16f); rotL++;}
  if(rotL>15){
  goingRight = false;rotL = 0;}
      }
      Mouse.translate(-.2f,0f,0f);  
}
if(right){
  if(!goingRight){
  if(rotR < 16){
  Mouse.rotateY(-3.1416f/16f); rotR++;}
  if(rotR>15){
  goingRight = true;rotR = 0;}
      }
      Mouse.translate(.2f,0f,0f);  
}

    camera.setPosition(Mouse.getTransformedCenter().x,5,-75);
    lightVector.set(Mouse.getTransformedCenter().x,-10.0f,-20.0f);
light.setPosition(lightVector);    
fb.clear(java.awt.Color.BLUE);
world.renderScene(fb);
world.draw(fb);
fb.update();
fb.displayGLOnly();
canvas.repaint();
Thread.sleep(10);
}


Yeah, kind of a Lemmings with one character and lots of switches and elevators and things.

It's Vista.  It looks nice, but it kind of sucks.  It's buggier than an ant hill, and one gig of memory is just enough to tow it.  It uses system resources like it can't get enough.  I've never seen any system access the hard drive that much.  It's like Christmas watching the hard drive light blink constantly.  And get this, it takes the OS zip utility six minutes to unzip jpct.  Luckily I found another one that's compatible that takes about a second.

O.K. thanks.  I'll have to just start playing around with it till I get some understanding.  I'm not quite clear on it yet.

Nevermind, apparently I didn't need to do anything with WindowEvents, I just needed to add the keymapper to the frame, or vice versa, whatever.   

Little question on LWJGL from a java noob.  If lwjgl were on the classpath of my java runtime of my system, and I clicked on a game written with jpct and run from the web start, would it use the LWJGL on my system and have a faster load time?  This probably means nothing to anyone but a phone modem user.

I don't suppose you could put keyboard polling in the hello world example?  I've been trying for a while and I can't get it to work.  The other examples are a little too big for me right now.  I just know the basics of Java, haven't done any windowing. 

Also, it started working for me when I accidentally overwrote my older jpct with the newer one. But then I erased the jpct folder and extracted this new one and now the runjava bat file doesn't work anymore and I get his error:
Actually, I think it's an extraction error.  I've tried two unzip utilities and I get an error on both.  It probably has something to do with this piece of crap called Vista, but the older version of jpct  extracted o.k.  I think it has something to do with the picture for hello world. 

C:\Downloads\jpct\examples\helloworld>java -Djava.library.path=../../lib/lwjgl-1
.1.4 -Xmx128m -classpath classes;../../lib/jpct/jpct.jar;../../lib/lwjgl-1.1.4/l
wjgl.jar HelloWorldAWTGL
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/threed/jpct/Objec
t3DList
        at com.threed.jpct.World.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at HelloWorldAWTGL.<init>(HelloWorldAWTGL.java:28)
        at HelloWorldAWTGL.main(HelloWorldAWTGL.java:18)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.threed.jpct.Object3DList
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
        ... 3 more
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: incomplete literal/length tree
        at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Resource.getBytes(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
        ... 10 more