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Pro Java 6 3D Game Development: Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL APIs (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

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Create strange lands filled with mysterious objects (cows frozen in blocks of ice, chirping penguins, golden globes with wavering eyes) and throw away your keyboard and mouse, to go exploring armed only with a gamepad, power glove, or just your bare handsï¿½

Java gaming expert Andrew Davison will show you how to develop and program 3D games in Java technology on a PC, with an emphasis on the construction of 3D landscapes. It's assumed you have a reasonable knowledge of Java - the sort of thing picked up in a first Java course at school.

Topics are split into three sections: Java 3D API, non-standard input devices for game playing, and JOGL. Java 3D is a high-level 3D graphics API, and JOGL is a lower-level Java wrapper around the popular OpenGL graphics API.

Youll look at three non-standard input devices: the webcam, the game pad, and the P5 data glove.

Along the way, youll utilize several other games-related libraries including: JInput, JOAL, JMF, and Odejava.

Learn all the latest Java SE 6 features relevant to gaming, including: splash screens, JavaScript scripting as well as the desktop and system tray interfaces.

Unique coverage of Java game development using both the Java 3D API and Java for OpenGL, as well as invaluable experience from a recognized Java gaming guru, will provide you with a distinct advantage after reading this book.

About the Author

Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne for six years before moving to Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 1996. He has also taught in Bangkok, Khon Kaen, and Hanoi. His research interests include scripting languages, logic programming, visualization, and teaching methodologies. This latter topic led to an interest in teaching games programming in 1999. His O'Reilly book, Killer Game Programming in Java, was published in 2005.

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Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Apress (April 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590598172
ISBN-13: 978-1590598177
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for Java 3D programming and game development, May 12, 2007

By	calvinnme "Texan refugee" (Fredericksburg, Va) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

There is some overlap between this book and the author's other book on Java game programming, "Killer Game Programming in Java", but overall there is enough new material to make it a worthwhile purchase. The author starts out trying to explain Java3D. His explanations are OK, but the best explanation I have ever found as an overview of the API is "Java 3D API Tutorial" on the Sun Microsystems website. It's old, but the basics haven't changed. For the specifics of working with Java 3D in the modern era, come back to this book. The author has done a good job of putting together some programming examples that show how to program in current versions of Java 3D including a 3D version of Conway's game of life. He then modifies the program to show off some of the features of Java 6 such as its ability to communicate with scripting languages. Further chapters show how to build creatures with operational limbs that demonstrate Java 3D's TransformGroups, how to handle physics and Java3D using a specific physics API, multitexturing for more natural looking outdoor scenes, and finally how to deal with level of detail problems using mixed mode rendering. In each case, the author just doesn't talk about how to do something, he produces working code that gets the job done and provides a blueprint for the reader to go further.

The section on non-standard input devices deals with interfacing devices such as webcams, game controllers, game pads, and the P5 Virtual Reality Glove to your 3D worlds and games. He mentions parts of Java that are seldom well-explained such as JInput to describe how to control these devices. In the section on webcams, the author talks about JMF and an alternative method of interfacing to cameras. This is good, since for all intents and purposes JMF is really a dead API with very little useful capability. One of the more interesting chapters in this section really has nothing to do with input devices, that being the chapter on JOAL, which is a wrapper around OpenAL, the OpenAudio Library. This is very practical since there are bugs in Java 3D's sound interface that have been there from the beginning and show no sign of being resolved. This chapter provides a practical way for Java programmers to get actual reliable 3D sound into their games and applications.

The final section of the book is on JOGL, which is a Java wrapper for the OpenGL graphics library. The author explains and illustrates the use of JOGL by first implementing a very simple application to clearly illustrate all of the steps needed. Next, a 3D world is written using JOGL that includes a floor with a checkerboard pattern, an orbiting earth, a skybox of stars, a billboard that shows a tree, overlays, and keyboard navigation.

This book, along with the Sun tutorial, is a good education in how to use the Java 3D API in general, and also how to build virtual worlds in Java as well as how to write 3D Java games, which was the book's original purpose. Highly recommended.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Little useful content, January 16, 2009

By	D. Brown (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The author states: "In this book, I show you how to develop and program 3D games in Java technology on a PC, with emphasis on the construction of 3D landscapes. I assume you have a reasonable knowledge of Java, the sort of things picked up in a first Java course at school." The publisher prints "The Apress Java Roadmap" consistent with this.

The book, however, is quite different from what is stated, and it is difficult to see how the book would be useful.

The book claims to describe Java 3D, but is in fact little more than miscellaneous source code fragments of much larger programs, surrounded by text annotations. Annotated programs have been published before, notably by Donald Knuth, but this book fails to make the technique work on many levels.

Do not expect the book to provide an overview of Java 3D. The book describes where to download Java 3D from the Sun Microsystems Java Web site. That is all - there is no 'Hello World' program, and no introduction to the Java 3D classes and their organization. The 'overview' is approximately 2 pages of text without a single line of code, only the Web location of the Sun Java 3D 'HelloUniverse' program. If you use this book, you will be learning Java 3D from another source.

The book is structured as a sequence of chapters about specific topics, for example, Chapter 6 is 'A Multitextured Landscape'. Each topic is illustrated by a program, the chapter itself lists the source code of some methods from some classes in the program, with text descriptions.

Do not expect to be able to use the source code fragments as examples for Java 3D programming. The fragments rely heavily on other parts of the program, and the Java 3D calls (if any occur in a given fragment) are not obvious. The author apparently uses the Java 'import' directive to reference Java 3D classes, but does not list these imports in the source code fragments. Therefore, unless the reader already knows the Java 3D API, it is not possible to determine which methods and data types are part of Java 3D, and which ones are part of the larger program. In order to even find the Java 3D calls in a source code fragment, you must already know Java 3D.

Do not expect to learn what capabilities are included in Java 3D, and how to use them. The text description associated with the source code fragments tends to describe only the specific fragment implementation, and mixes descriptions of the fragment as a component of the program with a few mentions of Java 3D features being used. Even for the few mentions of Java 3D in the descriptions, there is no overall discussion of the Java 3D features, or why the particular implementation was chosen.

If you want to learn Java 3D and game programming, you will be better off without this book than with it. The book lists two technical reviewers, I do not understand what they reviewed or why. The publisher, Apress, produces some useful technical books. This is not one of them.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Java3D examples, May 18, 2008

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If you are new to 3D programming in Java then this book is not a very good place to start. That's not to say this isn't a good book its just that you will need to be somewhat comfortable with Java3D before reading this book. Like the previous reviewer said the sun tutorials will help to understanding the examples used in this book, just don't think that this book will hold your hand.

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