A question for Helge..

I'm trying to soften (anti-alias) the edges of my on-screen objects. I've  used frameBuffer.getPixels and blurred the image array. This produces a good result but it's a bit slow. I also tried SAMPLINGMODE_OGSS_FAST, but the result wasn't quite what I was after.

Any suggestions/ideas gratefully received.

There were a couple of places where I had some gaps between street objects that I couldn't fix easily, and I found that the sky background was bleeding through. To patch it, I threw in a big plane under the street to block it off - I'll see about patching it properly.

Also, I have a couple of very long fences with a tiny repeating texture which seems to warp into a diagonal line - I think it started happening when I stretched the object to its current length (which is pretty big). Is it a bug, do you think?

I'll grab your latest fps source and have a look through, and remodel mine accordingly. I sometimes get the odd frame which flashes, which I
figured was down to the threads getting in a bit of a mess.

I wanted to make something quite dark and oppressive - I'll keep adding to it (work permitting) and see what develops.

Thanks for the tips!

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www.tokima.com uses the jPCT API. It's up and in beta - enjoy.

I'm building an applet and thought you might like some pix:

Don't know if this is still an issue, but I've got some mouse-controlled camera code here which works well. you'll need to define all the variables as int:


  public boolean mouseDown(Event e, int x, int y){
      lastx=x;
      lasty=y;
      return true;
  }
 
  public boolean mouseDrag(Event e, int x, int y){
 
         //look left/right with mouse
         camera.rotateAxis(camera.getBack().getYAxis(), (x-lastx)*TURN_SPEED);
         playerDirection.rotateY((x-lastx)*TURN_SPEED);
   
         //look up/down with mouse
          camera.rotateX(-(y-lasty)*TURN_SPEED);
         
     
      lastx=x;
      lasty=y;
      return true;
  }

... now works perfectly.  thanks!!

If, like me, you're experimenting with the excellent 'fps' demo bundled with the API, and you're using 3dsMAX for modelling, you might find this useful.

I was trying to modify the main .3ds map file using an ancient copy of MAX (v3.1 I think), but I discovered that if I imported the file then immediately re-exported it again, all the textures vanished and I was left with a load of blank white models in the demo.

It turned out that when 3dsMAX exports .3ds files, the embedded .jpg filenames get converted to uppercase, so the demo no longer recognises them.

To get around this, change the following line in JPCTDemo.java as follows:

From this:

texMan.addTexture(name , new Texture("textures"+File.separator+name));

to this:

texMan.addTexture(name.toUpperCase() , new Texture("textures"+File.separator+name));

Recompile it, and you can now mod the .3ds map using 3dsMAX and see the result immediately in the demo.