Development of a library of tools for the creation of games

[thoced]

Hello everyone, first of all, sorry for my English,

I would like to develop a library of useful tools for the development of video games.

I started by implementing a Controler named TriggerControl which, when attached to a Spatial Empty
Of Blender Software, triggers an event that can be picked up by a Listener in Java.

This can be useful for opening doors, raising or lowering a lift, lighting a lamp, triggering something…

It’s not much but I would like to be able to add several tools that would be useful to the game engine.

We find this kind of functionality in the Unity engine or Unreal Engine.

I do not pretend to say that the code is properly written.

Currently I am trying to create the equivalent of Widgets (Unreal Engine). This creates interactive menus in the scene.

You will find the code here: https://github.com/thoced/jm3-libraries-tools-game

Can you help me identify a list of tools that could be useful for developing video games?

thank you in advance

ThoCed

[pspeed]

@thoced

I started by implementing a Controler named TriggerControl which, when attached to a Spatial Empty
Of Blender Software, triggers an event that can be picked up by a Listener in Java.

FYI: Lemur already has this. Works for any JME spatial in 2D or 3D.

Here was a demo from way back:

Lemur Gems #3 : Scene picking

Lemur has a robust picking subsystem that uses JME’s standard ray collision code. In this Lemur Gem, I add simple mouse picking to the app already built in Lemur Gem #1 and Lemur Gem #2 When you initialize Lemur’s GuiGlobals, it automatically adds the MouseAppState that does scene picking. It also adds the guiNode and rootNode to the pickable scene roots automatically. This demo uses that automatic setup. It is also possible to use the MouseAppState without the rest of Lemur but for simplic…

Documentation on the Lemur module that handles this:

jMonkeyEngine-Contributions/Lemur - Mouse and Touch Handling

Or start here:

jMonkeyEngine-Contributions/Lemur

…and then adding a listener to any spatial is one line of code (plus the listener implementation)

[thoced]

@pspeed

FYI: Lemur already has this. Works for any JME spatial in 2D or 3D.

I thought the lemur library only created 2d or 3d GUIs.

I did not know that other tools were present.