Finished a SciFi room. Very happy with the results. 
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Nice, I am getting Xmen vibes.
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roguelike rpg progress - procgen maps:
uses jmonkey, particlemonkey, wes and tamarin.
(thanks for everyone’s work on those!)
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How interesting, an RPG game with JME3, the scenarios look very good (I like it).
Good luck with this project!
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Started adding small details via transparent textures. Think of chain link fences.
I was going to paint these textures by hand but baking them in blender is so much easier.
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We are in the amazing Gen AI era and I’m testing a few leading models to generate simple 3D animations and games programs. The effort is to fine-tune the system & user prompts to a sufficient degree of creativity, efficiency and consistency.
In this demo I’m using Anthrop\c’s Claude Opus model to create s simple animation program of a flying dragon with a few spheres rotating around it.
The prompt to the model was:
“write a program showing a flying dragon rotate some spheres around it”
“rotate the spheres around the dragon by changing their position using cosines and sinus functions”
Claude’s result was:
d => dragon : pos (0,0,0)
d.fly loop
var spheres = []
var radius = 5
var angle = 0
for (var i=0;i<10;i=i+1) {
s => sphere : material="pond"
spheres.push(s)
}
do
for (var i=0;i<10;i=i+1) {
var s = spheres[i]
var x = radius * cos(angle+i*0.628)
var y = 2 * sin(angle*0.8+i)
var z = radius * sin(angle+i*0.628)
s.move to (d.x+x, d.y+y, d.z+z) in 0.9 seconds async
}
angle=angle+0.55
while 1==1
The only thing I needed to change manually was replacing the command “pos” with “move to” for a smoother animation result.
This is the first step to final target of allowing non-programmers to create simple 3d games and animations using natural language commands.
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OFF THE CHAIN!!
Optimized chains.
20 chain links:
medium poly - far
medium poly - close
low poly - far
low poly - close
Low Poly:
verts: 120 (160 decrease)
faces: 40 (200 decrease)
tris: 80 (400 decrease)
Medium Poly:
verts: 280
faces: 240
tris: 480
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Looks fantastic! Any hint what the game is about? 
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Thanks!
It’s a fairly traditional turnbased roguelike, only more story-focused and open.
parts of the story are still in flux, so can’t tell much about it yet.
there’s a war with half a dozen factions that you have to navigate to get to the bottom of things.
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Shoot it before it bites you. 
Someone throw a big shoe at it !!!
Carry all weapons at once to increase damage. 
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Are you ready to unleash your game development potential?
The most interesting feature: a new Animation Editor to create new AnimLayers and configure the associated AnimMask. All the new features in the following video.
I hope the suggestions I am making to improve the SDK are helpful.
Edit:
Implementing Assimp/MonkeyWrench as the model loading solution for the editor. This will allow users to select configuration options and perform validation checks.
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I just tested Rigify with GLTF format. It seems to pass, but I do see some shrinking of the feet. Maybe I need to toggle some settings. I’m running JMonkey 3.5.2 stable.
The green cube is testing geometry attachment (like a pistol).
If everything goes well this would greatly improve my character creation pipeline. I can’t wait to see the results.
Edit 2:
Baddie alert!
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Your editor is looking very nice.
Is the Animation Layer stuff part of the jMe code?
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Hi @ndebruyn , thank you, yes it is all jME stuff.
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Hi everyone,
I am implementing a new Material Editor. During my development journey I learned a lot of things.
Main Features:
- Select the MaterialDef (.j3md) to be used.
- Add/Remove parameters to/from the Material based on the selected MaterialDef.
- Modify parameters (boolean, int, float, vec2, vec3, vec4, color…) of the Material at Runtime.
- Change and display Material textures by selecting them from the project resource folder.
- Change the displayed geometry.
- Change the parameters of the AdditionalRenderState.
- Generate the j3m file.
I am also thinking of implementing a shader node graph editor, but this challenge is very complicated. Here is a first prototype.
Maybe I could start with something simple like Blender Shader Nodes
With these tools completed, I will get back to work on some really interesting demos that I hope to show you soon. 
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Like and subscribe in youtube.
Edit:
Finished texturing an area. And added 2 elevators with animations.
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Wow wow wow, jME and its community has got such amazing projects going.
Well done to all and keep the good work up.
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What framework are you using for these nodes?
After some tweaking to what I wrote on last night’s live stream (added the up-texture support), I have a working 3D material:
No texture coordinates. Just three projected textures: side, side-cutaway, top-cutaway.
(Oh, and that mesh is actually square but warped in the shader to be cylindrical.)
The unwarped version:
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