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Troubleshooting graphics
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Hi, I'm new to jME so I've just been playing with the tutorials a little.



I made a small landscape in 3ds Max and am trying to import it into the HelloSimpleGame project however i keep getting a "MalformedURLException: no protocol" error.



I'm using Netbeans 5.5 and the problem is that I'm not sure which directory I should be placing the model into. When I set an absolute dir such as "C:/landscape.3ds" it still throws the same exception.



Can anyone tell me where I should be placing my models? In the following example I just have URL("landscape.3ds"), which dir is this relating to?



I'm sure I have my code correct, however just in case, here it is:



public Node buildTerrain() {

        Node r = null;

        try {

            MaxToJme C1=new MaxToJme();

            ByteArrayOutputStream BO=new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            URL maxFile=new URL("landscape.3ds");

            C1.convert(new BufferedInputStream(maxFile.openStream()),BO);

            JmeBinaryReader jbr=new JmeBinaryReader();

            jbr.setProperty("bound","box");

            r = jbr.loadBinaryFormat(new ByteArrayInputStream(BO.toByteArray()));

            r.setLocalScale(.1f);

        } catch (IOException e) {

            System.out.println("Damn exceptions:"+e);

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        return r;

    }

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Gentleman Hal said:

You're getting that error because your URL is malformed  :P

URL's need to include a protocol such as http or file to be valid.

Try new File("landscape.3ds").toURL() instead.


Thanks for actually answering his question, GH. :)
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Take a look at the way the examples load models and such, it will give you a good basic understanding how to loading resources into your game.

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You’re getting that error because your URL is malformed  :stuck_out_tongue:



URL’s need to include a protocol such as http or file to be valid.



Try new File(“landscape.3ds”).toURL() instead.

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Actually toURL is deprecated in 1.6.  It is preferrable to use File().toURI().toURL() instead.

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Woo :smiley: thanks



Had to read up on packages a lot too, (I'm a c++ programmer by heart).



But it works now so cheers guys :slight_smile: