hi,

i generalized texture based dressing, this will allow virtually any dressing combination without code change.

i also added support for mesh based accessories like hair, sun glasses etc. these have neither mesh nor skeletal animation. their translations and rotations for key frames are stored in text files via max script and then used in jpct

below is a simplified configuration file for avatars. thx to jibx and generics for converting such an xml tree to java objects in a pure type safe manner

<avatar scale="0.3" >
        <animation name="walk" frames="6" cycles="1" loopStart="1" loopEnd="5" />                                                                                                                                            
        <skin-group name="skin-color" drawOrder="0" noneAllowed="false" default="light">
                <skin name="light" file="skin/light.png" thumbNail="skin/light_thumb.png" />
                <skin name="dark" file="skin/dark.png" thumbNail="skin/dark_thumb.png" />
        </skin-group>
                                                                                                                                             
        <skin-group name="panths" drawOrder="1" noneAllowed="false" default="one" >
                <skin name="one" file="panth/one.png" thumbNail="panth/one_thumb.png" />
                <skin name="two" file="panth/two.png" thumbNail="panth/two_thumb.png" />
        </skin-group>
                                                                                                                                             
        <accessory-group name="hair" noneAllowed="true" default="marul" >
                <accessory name="marul" dir="marul" defaultTexture="blonde" thumbNail="marul_thumb.png" >
                        <texture name="blonde" file="blonde.png" />
                        <texture name="black" file="black.png" />
                </accessory>
        </accessory-group>
                                                                                                                                             
        <accessory-group name="earing" noneAllowed="true" >
                <accessory name="ring" dir="ring"  defaultTexture="silver" thumbNail="ring_thumb.png" >
                        <texture name="silver" file="silver.png" />
                        <texture name="gold" file="gold.png" />
                </accessory>
        </accessory-group>
</avatar>

avatar panel.


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those semi-transparent panels are addictive. they are sure performance killers but i cant leave them  

hey rolz,

can u say more about that animation editor ? what does it do exactly ? and may we use it ? ;-)

the links seem nice but i'm quite unsure if such a 'network engine' worths that much. for karga, up to now it wasnt the networking and and other server side stuff but client side 'mathematics' that challenged me.  for instance deciding a direction and making a character step to that direction smoothly is god damn harder than broadcasting server events to clients. it maybe because of i was experienced on those stuff but i'm not sure

your shots seem cool as always
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ooh, it really looks nice how should i log in ? register link at your page doesnt work ?

and the game window does not have a title bar (only way to close it is killing). this is possibly for my box doesnt support full screen mode (paradroidz doesnt work in full screen mode either)

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hey rolz,

yeap, i will go after that approach but it has its own difficulties like scaling text for perspective and deciding if it is visible or not
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hi there,

i've removed the node groups since they only make things complicated. now there are only regions and nodes where each node is mapped to a jpct world. i've also added node switching mechanism and 3rd person view. not that smooth but will do the job for a start. to tell the truth it really challanged me

a scene from karga, with my primitive animation. houses from turbosquid. not that bad i guess

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for no specific reason of course. possibly i was in a hurry and avoided formatting. done now

yesterday i talked with an old friends' friends' company. in a couple of weeks they will publish their first person shooter 'pusu' (http://3tegames.com/). the first turkish first person shooter i guess

well, it was a funny and dismotivating conversation. i said with enough resources this project may even end up with something like there.com. he said, why should we do sth like there.com, why should we do that with java, and why should we use someone else's 3d engine.. bla bla bla

he even didnt let me talk about karga and some of its hidden (at the moment) capabilities (like suggesting actions to others) and about jpct of course

my mind says selling a service via internet has many advantages over selling games. you can sell it continuosly, people can buy it anytime they want etc. and afterall developing such a system gives the same and maybe more satisfaction than a game gives

maybe i should look for some volunteer animators and modellers over internet

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any idea is welcome as always

What i meant was that if SUN's license doesn't permit it now, i don't think that they'll do this themselfs in the future.

i still couldnt get it ? is sun restricting himself with his own license ?

I think that the idea is, that a complete JRE ensures that every Java application will work with it, while a stripped down JRE wouldn't and that people would blame that on SUN or Java and not on the JRE

well, this may be the case if you use any extension packages like mail etc. java5 is quite huge but still doesnt and cant include all core (java, javax) packages

They don't have to. The JRE works without any installation. My Paradroidz archive contains a jre-directory from where the VM is started and that's it. At least for Windows...

paradroidz is a standalone application, i was mainly talking about applets

i think that Linux user's are more used to change their system to get things working compared to Windows, so maybe it's not too much of a problem.

quite true. i found a linux user closer to a developer than to an ordinary user

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