My mac mini is so cute!

[Erwin_Br]

Well did a search and came up with Klink. Anyone heard of it? Here's the site, I didn't really get a good chance to check it out. Maybe if someone with a Mac and a good brain would like to give it a go here the site.

http://www.klinksoftware.com/

Thanks! Looks very interesting. I'm going to check this software out tonight!

--Erwin

[ad7venture]

I was talking from experience with a Java-based 3D engine called Jamagic.

That engine was crap.  Take a look at JME
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/

Trouble is it needs LWJGL, so it forces people to download something extra.  Sun still hasn't seen fit to include Opengl bindings in the standard libraries.

[Erwin_Br]

I was talking from experience with a Java-based 3D engine called Jamagic.

That engine was crap.

Hehe, you don't have to tell me! I wasted 100 bucks on that thing. I trusted ClickTeam because my experiences with their line of products have always been very good. Until Jamagic.

  Take a look at JME
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/

Trouble is it needs LWJGL, so it forces people to download something extra.  Sun still hasn't seen fit to include Opengl bindings in the standard libraries.

Impressive showcase. I have to idea how to tie a graphics rendering engine into a game engine, though. Sounds complicated.

--Erwin

[ad7venture]

Impressive showcase. I have to idea how to tie a graphics rendering engine into a game engine, though. Sounds complicated.

It's not too bad because there are packages around for physics, collision,sound, etc, but it's quite a bit for one person.  I've filed it under long term for my Ogre project.  If you want to actually get something people can play in a reasonably short time, you need a complete engine.  The other engine looked pretty good, but then it runs on Mac and not Windows so you're really in the same boat.  I still haven't found a 3d engine that satisfies me.  Ogre comes close enough, but it may take quite a while to get it to do what I'd like, or maybe the Blender plugin for Ogre will actually happen one of these days.

[Kickaha]

DIM3 (from Klink software) looks very impressive - but also very FPS centric.  I would be more tempted by the Torque game engine even though that isn't free.

Not sure how active JME is at the moment - last I heard the people behind JME had gone to work for a company doing Java games.

If you're using OpenGL for graphics then most of the work should be being done on the graphics card - whether C or Java is driving the show is not so significant.  Java2D doesn't cut it on a Mac.