Introduction

Goal

Provide an overview of the opportunities interactive 3D technology give us for developing virtual environments, explain the general concept of the "scene graph" and introduce the jMonkeyEngine API.

Contents

This module comprises of:

• Virtual Environments
  • Virtual environments
  • Software technologies
  • Hardware technologies
  • 3D applications
• Introduction to jMonkeyEngine
• What is jMonkeyEngine?
• Scene graphs
• A jME Application
• Coordinate systems
• Examples (code)

Literature

Lecture notes/handouts/slides.

jMonkeyEngine website.

Introduction to jMonkeyEngine 3.0.

Tutorial (1) - Hello SimpleApplication.

Tutorial (2) - Hello Node.

Scene Graph for Dummies.

Math for Dummies.

Exercises

Before next week you should ensure that you have jMonkeyEngine installed, compile and run the example code, and become familiar with how the example code works by experimenting a little with it.