[SOLVED] How to use an asset located in my project folder

Troubleshooting import-assets
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Hello guys,
I’m currently trying to use own assets. For example a “metall.png” texture.

The path for that image is the following:
[project folder]\assets\proto\metall\metall001.png

In order to load it, I tried the following code:

Material metall_mat;
metall_mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Light/Lighting.j3md");
metall_mat.setTexture("DiffuseMap", assetManager.loadTexture("proto/metall/metall001.png"));

In return in get the following error message:

Uncaught exception thrown in Thread[jME3 Main,5,main]
AssetNotFoundException: proto/metall/metall001.png (Flipped) (Mipmapped)

Now I don’t know what I’m actually supposed to do with the assetManager in order to get it to work. I heard about FileLocators before but that info alone doesn’t help.

Thanks in advance for any help ^^

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Hello, welcome to JME comunity!

If you are using Gradle, add this to the dependencies:

runtimeOnly files('assets')

it will add the “assets” directory to classpath.

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Could you show us how your project is structured? A screenshot of the file structure might be suffice.

If you have your project on Github or similar, that would be easy as we could just take a peek what is wrong. Or just upload your project as ZIP and provide the link.

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This is my Project Structure:

ProjectStructure

I simply used the structure explained on this tutorial:

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That tutorial is a bit older and relies on the fact that the older build files would put the assets folder on the classpath.

…which is possible to do manually in the build file as discussed earlier.

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Can you give me a hint on how I would do such thing in a basic Netbeans project. My project wasn’t created with an initializer, but rather in netbeans alone.

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If you are using the ant-based builds then I haven’t thought about that in 12-13 years.

If you are using the gradle-based builds then I think a solution was already included above.

…either way, you will have to learn a little bit about how your project is built.

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Thank you for all of your help so far. Sadly, I still don’t know what I am supposed to do.

Can I achieve adding a dir to my classpath by editing my build.xml? And if so, where can I learn about all this stuff (how my project is built)?

Edit: I just figured out my project is Ant-built

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Okay guys! I solved it.

As all of you said, I needed to add the asset folder to my class path.
I had no clue how to do it tho and what it actually means.

So I went ahead and asked ChatGPT:

I have an Ant-built project in Netbeans.
Whats the simplest way to add a directionary to the classpath?

Its response:

To add a directory to the classpath of an Ant-built project in
NetBeans, you can do the following:

1. Open the NetBeans project in which you want to add the directory to the classpath.

2. Right-click on the project in the "Projects" window 
and select "Properties" from the context menu.

3. In the "Project Properties" dialog, select the "Libraries" category.

4. In the "Compile" tab, click the "Add Folder..." button.

5. In the "Add Folder to Classpath" dialog, navigate to the directory
you want to add to the classpath, select it, and click the "Select Folder" button.

6. Click the "OK" button to close the "Add Folder to Classpath" dialog.

7. Click the "OK" button to close the "Project Properties" dialog.

After you have completed these steps, the directory you added will be included
in the classpath of the project. Any classes or resources in that directory
will be available to the project during compilation and execution.

And see there my texture can be loaded without problems:

Material metall_mat;
metall_mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Light/Lighting.j3md");
metall_mat.setTexture("DiffuseMap", assetManager.loadTexture("proto/metall/metall001.png"));

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