No project assets folder

apopov · September 11, 2022, 11:59am

Hi, i’m new to the jMonkeyEngine, and trying to figure out how to set up my project properly. I’m using jMonkey Initializer to generate a project, when I open generated project in SDK ( v3.4.1-stable), I don’t have “Project Assets” folder. I guess it is not automatically created, so I have to do it by myself, but can’t find any instructions. Any attempt to open j3o scene from other directory (e.g Resources/Scenes/) is failed, nothing happens. Appreciate any help in tracking down the issue

tonihele · September 11, 2022, 12:20pm

You can try the SDK Gradle template instead. Mix and match.

tonihele · September 11, 2022, 5:16pm

Also with Gradle you usually need to build everything first to get things going. But seems that there is also this bug File is not part of a jME project but tries to find original model · Issue #379 · jMonkeyEngine/sdk · GitHub. Unfortunately.

apopov · September 12, 2022, 5:23pm

Thanks for the response, @tonihele. I tried to use sdk gradle template, but “Project Assets” node disappeared randomly, so I decided to use Initializer template instead.

apopov · September 12, 2022, 5:25pm

Tried to compile sdk with this commit https://github.com/jMonkeyEngine/sdk/pull/380 as well, but had no luck, “Project Assets” node is not created.

tonihele · September 12, 2022, 6:19pm

Oh yeah, seems to be really tricky… If you have the skills to compile and run the SDK. Then you absolutely should get it working. But it is complicated:

github.com/jMonkeyEngine/sdk

Improve Gradle project user experience

opened 06:16PM - 12 Sep 22 UTC

tonihele

Improve Gradle project user experience. We have the new Gradle wizard and all th…at. It is great. But getting really things started with your new Gradle game template is super tricky. It needs to be built first to trigger some stuff happening. Even after that, the SDK doesn't recognize it as a jME project and display the Assets folder. A SDK restart is needed. Then one can go on with modeling a all that. Also double click doesn't edit the file, context menu and Edit is needed to open scene file in the Scene editor. Painful video evidence: [Improve Gradle project user experience](https://youtu.be/wCFEPQJSAnI)

Roughly the process is as follows:

Build the project
Restart the IDE

apopov · September 13, 2022, 6:44pm

I’ve finally been able to return my “Project Assets” by using latest snapshot (with :assets/assets workaround) and gradle template, many thanks for help!

richtea · September 14, 2022, 5:37pm

Hi @apopov are you sure there were no assets folders? I just downloaded a test project and they were there?

Note that the initializer uses a normal gradle layout rather than the old jmonkeyengine layout. That means that the asset folders are at src\main\resources rather that within a top level assets folder (this makes a number of things much less of a pain)