I was looking over some older forum posts to see if anyone managed to get shaders going. I found a thread from feb 9,2008 mentioning that Egon was going to add support for a render path in the pipleline. Did this ever happen? do we have some form of shader support or did it require to much of a change within in the system?

oh thanks for the info. I will add these remove all stuff. After looking into it some more I missed. I may or may not end up reusing them, but really I am reseting so I can just "reset" when I make changes to the script code. that way I get code changes with no compiles or restarting the app. Works like a charm now

buffer.disableRenderer(IRenderer.RENDERER_OPENGL);

thank you. your awesome. escpecially at this late night. it's 3am where I am

hmm I never thought about .addChild(). I'll try this out soon.

Though one thing I noticed. The marioObject in question is prone to the physics engine alot. So I don't actually know how much I move objects. So I tend to use .setOrigin() base on the current position the object is in the physics world.

Sorry, doesn't seem to do anything

Sorry it's in lua, but it's pretty basic.
   update = function()
     player = _global:get("player"); -- works
     _camera:align(player); -- no rotation when watching the object rotate. the object rotates a lot
   
     o = player:getOrigin(); -- works
     _camera:setPosition(o.x, o.y, -70.0); -- works. follows the object really well
     _camera:lookAt(player:getOrigin()); -- looks at the object really well
   end;


awesome, thank you both very much

Ok last question. I'm not sure how it works. I'm asking here first because this forum is more about rotation than physics.

Is there a way to match a 2d angle to an Object3d rotation. I find that with rotation I activly rotate it by the applied value. So I can't just object3d.rotateZ(box2dBody.angle). I end up with a box spinning insanely.
I've tried applying only the difference between last and current frame. This works much better. You can't really see a problem when it's moving, but when it stops bouncing and is still. The graphical Obejct3D box is at angle with a corner sitting in the ground.

So basiclly I need to figure how to mesh the 2d.angle with a 3d.rotation or pivot.

I think this will pretty much cover it. I hope.

Ok things are going nicely. I guess

I'm having some other problems. So If you could bear with me.

1. What angle system does JPCT use? Right, Left? Is towards the user +Z? is in +Z +X to the right....

and more importantly

2. I am using JBox2d. I can get the physics to work and "bind" the Object3d to the Physics body. There is however a problem. In relation to 1. I don't know if i'm seeing the physics matching the 3d. So here is what i'm looking for

A layer ontop of the 3d where I can line draw the physics objects where it is transparent. That way I can maybe see somekind of merger to validate what's happening.

I'm really stupid sometimes. While I can't find an ideal solution. I at least have one to avoid any memory mis management problems.

local cameraTask = luajava.createProxy("sre.util.Task",
  {
   update = function()
     position = camera:getPosition(); -- get copy? of current camera position. updating purposes
     --when updating the camera, x&y match the player. eventually
     bridge:setSimpleVector(position, 150, -60, -150); -- set the new position into the vector
     camera:setPosition(position);  --apply the vector
     
     bridge:setSimpleVector(position, 0,0,0); -- repeat above
     camera:lookAt(position);
   end
  });

I would still like to know if getPosition is a copy or if i'm doing something wrong

hey Paul. I think you should put together a comprehensive jpct + applets post|tutorial. Then ask Egon for it to be stickied.