The web page is very well designed, but the forums should have support for other language Speakers, of course that E. Olsen wouldnt be able to answer everything as he is doing now, in fact he is the only one that answer my newbies quetions and all the questions from everybody (Great job   ), but being able to get replies in an own languaje would be very usefull, I say so becausse for me is a kind of difficult to understand everything on the forums, becausse of the tech terms used, that is not learned on the shool. A solution may be getting information about what language speaks all the registered people so it will be possible to ask certain things ro certain people.  :oops:

The examples that came with the engines are awesome but difficult to understand especially the car one, and even more for non experienced programmers and even even more more for non English speakers. I think that the examples should be more simples and well documentated, for example is better 6 very simple examples that 1 very complex.

I think that the examples included on the engine should be for 2 reasons: one is helping the newbies like me to get started easily, and the other one is showing the power of the engine.

So the examples should do specific things like:

Loading a map

Just switching between SW renderer and Open gl

A collision detecttion between 2 primitives objects

and finally the 2 examples using what was learned before and showing how to use it.

Actually the examples are greats and very impresives but also a kind of messy, like if they were written in C++ and passed to java, the code is not well organized, functions like gameloop and domovement should be distributes in others more organized functions making it more obvius to see what is happening there.

Please dont get upset  :x  E. Olsen. I think you are doing a great great great work here, and your examples looks very nice, but they are not for learning.  :?

The collision detection methods implemented on the engine clases should be more intuitives to use, and should be possible to get information from them.
For example a boolean method called Collide from a method called Collision would be great for using it on the Object3D

Object3D Ball=new .....;
if (Ball.Collision.Collide (up, 1)==false) Ball.move (up);

So Collide may recieve the direction or a Simplevector and the distance to check, that would be very helpfull. Another usefull method may be CollidedWith () from Collision that returns the Object3D from wich collide or a boolean to check. For example:

boolean allowed;
Object3D White_Ball=new........
Object3D Black_Ball=new........
if (White_Ball.Collision.CollidedWith (Black_Ball)==true)
--------allowed=true;
--------DoMovement (White_Ball, Black_Ball);
if (White_Ball.Collision.CollidedWith (Black_Ball)!=true)
--------allowed=false;
--------System.out.println ("Error: movement not allowed");

or

//The player class

public class Player {
----int life=100;
----Object3D foot;
----Object3D fist;
----Object3D etc;
etc.
etc.
etc.
----public void setLife (Object3D part) {
--------if (part==foot) life-=20;
--------if (part==fist) life-=10;
--------if (part==null) life-=0;
----}
}


//inside the game class
boolean action;
Player Mel=new Player (...,..., etc.);
Player ssj5=new Player (...,..., etc.);
if (action==true) {
----Mel.setLife (ssj5.body.Collision.collidedWith ());
----ssj5.setlife (Mel.body.Collision.collidedWith ());
}



Another  suggestion  with  the  collision  detection  is  for  the  camera, for   example   a   boolean   method   called
SphereCollide (SimpleVector or a direction, float radius). For example:

Camera cam_1=new.....;
if (cam_1.SphereCollide (up, 5)==false)
----cam_1.move (up);
else {
----//whatever
}

What are you talking about?

I do my models in 3D Studio max 6.0, I can load them using an applet, but when I am doing a frame,I just cant load neither them nor the textures, A message error appears saying that is  not a valid .3DS file, but thats not true becausse I load them on applets but not in frames, whats the problem??, I am not using the loader with the document base on frames!  :x.

When using applets I solves the problem renaming my files from .3DS to .3ds, but in frames in doesnt work, if I use the .3DS filea message appears saying that the file cant be found! Its like if no files can be read when not using applets.  :roll:

I am using Forte 3.0 for doing my awt applets and my awt frames!, Windows XP Pro.

Are you really using checkCameraCollision()? If so, you should better use checkCameraCollisionEllipsoid() instead. If it still doesn't work, maybe the scale of you scene is too large. Play around with Config.collideOffset in that case.

I set the Config.collideOffset on 400 and worked, but, It doesnt work perfectly when walking back, only when walking to the front. May anyone help me explaining me how does the collision detection works,and maybe little pieces of code or something.

Its very difficult to understand the doc of the engine becausse my English is not very good.  

When I found a wall, it stops, after that I can move in any direction but in back, the 50% of times I cant move back after detecting a collision. Heres the code I used:

private void formKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
        // Add your handling code here:
       
        if (evt.getKeyChar()=='w') {
            if (theWorld.checkCameraCollision(1, 3)==false)
                camera.moveCamera (Camera.CAMERA_MOVEIN, 3);
        }
        if (evt.getKeyChar()=='s') {
            if (theWorld.checkCameraCollision(-1, 3)==false)
                camera.moveCamera (Camera.CAMERA_MOVEOUT, 3);
        }
        if (evt.getKeyChar()=='a')
            camera.rotateAxis(camera.getBack().getYAxis(), -0.065f);
        if (evt.getKeyChar()=='d')
            camera.rotateAxis(camera.getBack().getYAxis(), 0.065f);
        if (evt.getKeyChar()==' ')
            camera.moveCamera (Camera.CAMERA_MOVEUP,5);
        if (evt.getKeyChar () == 'z')
            camera.moveCamera (Camera.CAMERA_MOVEDOWN,5);
       
        repaint ();
    }

You must rename your file from xxxxxx.3DS to xxxxxx.3ds, It shouldnt be difference but, I got the same problem and I solved it on that way. You can rename it from windows without problem. but it os a kind of stange becausse I solved my problem when using an applet, but not when usinga frame, well I am newbie in this, I might be wrong

Hello, I am doing an awt applet, so I put all the rendering code in the paint (); when something happens I use repaint (); but it flashes a lot, I thing that reloading the paint is not the best way to do it, but is there someway to constantly load that piece if code without using the paint?. I want the game to run inside my applet, thanks. :shock: