Loop yes, as fast as possible no(that be a lot higher fps). The target fps is set to 20.

Changing to an event based rendering is something I wanted to do, but implementing all functionality was
more important and took up all our time(which wasn't that much to begin with anyway ).

Congrats! und alles gute euch!

Hi

Thanks, that helped pin down the error. I actually built the object and reset the pivot, but had another buildAllObjects() in the scene load code, which reset the pivot again .

Works now.

hi

If you create your own object with triangles, you have to somehow tell the engine how to map a texture's picture information on to that object. This can be done by assigning UV coordiantes(UV really being x and y coordinates in % in a texture-> between 0 and 1) to the 3d geometry(vertices).

There several ways to assign UV coordiantes to your geometry:

You can do it like Kearnan, and let the engine calculate it for you(which might sometimes look a bit wierd), or by adding this information together with the vertices information of the triangle(often the case when using model loaders).

Following a simple example of a selfmade cube(probably the most awkward way of doing it heh). It only maps a texture on the two top triangles of the box. I'd go with automatic mapping though^^

/** Creates a box, which maps any given texture on to the top of the box */
   
    public static Object3D createBoxTextTop(float size, int texId)
    {
        Object3D box = new Object3D(12);
       
        SimpleVector[] sv = new SimpleVector[8];
        /* The 8 vertices of the box */
        sv[0] = new SimpleVector(0, 0, 0);
        sv[1] = new SimpleVector(size, 0, 0);
        sv[2] = new SimpleVector(size, size, 0);
        sv[3] = new SimpleVector(0, size, 0);
       
        sv[4] = new SimpleVector(0, 0, size);
        sv[5] = new SimpleVector(size, 0, size);
        sv[6] = new SimpleVector(size, size, size);
        sv[7] = new SimpleVector(0, size, size);
       
        /* Add the triangles counter-clockwise(so they face "outside") */
        box.addTriangle(sv[0],sv[2],sv[1]);
        box.addTriangle(sv[0],sv[3],sv[2]);
       
        box.addTriangle(sv[1],sv[6],sv[5]);
        box.addTriangle(sv[1],sv[2],sv[6]);
       
        box.addTriangle(sv[5],sv[7],sv[4]);
        box.addTriangle(sv[5],sv[6],sv[7]);
       
        box.addTriangle(sv[4],sv[3],sv[0]);
        box.addTriangle(sv[4],sv[7],sv[3]);

        /* These are the 2 top triangles, which have a texture assigned(texId is the texture ID returned from a texmanager).
             In this case its easy to map the texture, since the two triangles should show the whole texture
        */

        box.addTriangle(sv[4], 0f, 0f, sv[1], 1f, 1f, sv[5], 1f, 0f, texId);
        box.addTriangle(sv[4], 0f, 0f, sv[0], 0f, 1f, sv[1], 1f, 1f, texId);
       
        box.addTriangle(sv[3],sv[6],sv[2]);
        box.addTriangle(sv[3],sv[7],sv[6]);
         
        return box;
    }

You could use the Object3D.setAdditionalColor(java.awt.Color) to make the surface seem brighter. Works pretty well for me, I use it for stuff like buttons that should appear to glow in a dark environment. You can see an example in the latest screenshots in this thread -- the lights and red orb in there have additional colors.

Thanks thats what I ment.