Dead Monkey ---

[mitm]

I take it monkeyzone is dead now correct?

[yan]

It seems that team has abandened this project, but some folks still trying to learn something from it.

MonkeyZone and jMonkeyEngine3.1.0-beta1

I converted the monkeyzone project to a gradle project and started using JME3.1.0-beta. you can clone it on github SkidRunner/MonkeyZone. I left almost everything the same except replacing the logo with the new monkey and changing a bunch of stuff with nifty to use the new nifty controls I should go through and set all the labels widths to 100% to solve some issues you will see it you test it out.

Big leap from exercises to a basic game - Upgrade MonkeyZone

Big leap from basic, intermediate and advanced exercises to a basic game I went through the book and the online exercises and found that, when I actually started to make a game and was adding controls and appStates, I had almost no idea of how to do it. I also ran into the ‘modifying the scene graph from another thread’ and thought that, at this point, I should have a good idea of the strategy of how to give input without it happening at the wrong time. I’d like to see if anyone has upgraded…

[skidrunner]

I have been working on a mobile fps framework for it lately.

[mitm]

I figured as much since its coded for java 1.5, links in the wiki page are broken and no activity on the project page…

I guess I will just update it myself for personal study.

[skidrunner]

fork from mine its already updated.

[mitm]

Yes, I am mostly wondering what to do with the wiki page on it. It needs updating badly but that also means the core team needs to give some input on the update of the monkeyzone code since they are now onto 3.2+ of the engine and this was written in java 1.5 for jme3.0 I believe.

[skidrunner]

my wiki or the core wiki?

[mitm]

jmonkey wiki page.

[Darkchaos]

Well i think it should be something like “learn from the old stuff” Thing, since the java Version is irrelevant. It could be written in C# and you could still get the relevant Stuff.

From 3.0 to Current Master there werent many big design changes so the scenegraph, appstates and all are still there and I think this is what you could learn from it: how to properly Design the Codebase for a bigger Project.

I cant tell though if the Code still uses things which were already bad in 3.0 like implenenting Control or appstate