Is the jMonkey Ready for Me?

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Another game release down, and now I'm back to searching for engines for the next one. I keep telling myself that I'm going to use an engine rather than code my own. I've looked at jMonkeyEngine before (version 1) and was pretty impressed, although I found it hard to get into due to a lack of documentation (I got hung up on figuring out how to handle collision detections within the engine itself).



A couple of questions:

  1. Is 2.0 available for download? If it is, is it production ready?
  2. Is version 1 using the latest LWJGL (version 2.0rc1)?
  3. Did the flagrush examples ever get finished? Or at least up to the point where they show a real world example of collision detection?  :wink:
  4. Did Darkfrog's network engine ever get finished and integrated with jMonkeyEngine? (that network engine was showing some wonderful potential back when I last saw it)
  5. Does the sound system run smoothly now?



    You can probably tell from my questions, but it's been quite a while since I've really checked out the engine.



    Please let me know.  :smiley:



    -Jeremy
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Ask not if jME is ready for you, rather ask are YOU ready for jME?!?

(Sorry couldn't resist)


  1. 2.0 rc1 is available, although I am not sure its production ready yet.


  2. I believe version 1 is still using an older version of LWJGL (not sure what version)


  3. Flagrush tutorials do have collision detection I believe, however jME can offers several collision detection options including: bounding box, triangle accurate, and physics based (my favorite).


  4. JGN did get finished (I believe) however it was never integrated into jME itself (http://www.captiveimagination.com/svn/public/jme-networking/)


  5. I can't comment here too much, although I do know there has been fairly recent work on it.
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1.) Ummm…2.0 of jME?  Sorry, no RC1 for that yet…I think we're quite a ways from that. :slight_smile:

2.) I believe jME 2 is using LWJGL 2.0rc1

4.) Yeah, JGN 2.0 is quite stable and I really need to release an official 2.0 build but I've been lazy and haven't gotten around to it.



Welcome back to the forums.

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basixs said:

3) Flagrush tutorials do have collision detection I believe, however jME can offers several collision detection options including: bounding box, triangle accurate, and physics based (my favorite).


nope, unless it's in the wiki, but last I checked it was never dealt with. for the thing I'm working on, I plan to use jmephysics for object/world collisions and the Simple physics library(jme 1) from "locus g" for character world stuff, I need total control of the characters and the physics based character examples are very basic...........IMO
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sorry guys, I was SURE I had heard someone talking about jME 2.0 rc1.  Guess I jumped the gun…

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any rough ETA when we can expect jME 2.0?



also just curious will it support some of that LWJGL 2.0 applet stuff?

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LWJGL's 2.0 applet launcher does not need anything special in jME for it to be used.