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Calling opengl32.DLL from java?

I don't like LWJGL in some cases, so I prefer to use Swing. The thing is that Swing doesn't have OpenGL. I have tried JOGL and it's a mess to install, needs external jars, and I have yet to get it ...
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rotate sphere horizontally around another sphere

I currently have an earth and a moon. What I'm trying to achieve is to have the moon physically rotate around the earth horizontally along the equator along a circular path. moonAngle = ...
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Cant import Sun openGL

I've been working with JOGL and I've ran into a problem. The problem is when I try to import import com.sun.opengl.*; on Eclipse, Eclipse doesn't recognize it. Does anyone know where this library is? ...
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JOGL hardware based shadow mapping - computing the texture matrix

I am implementing hardware shadow mapping as described here. I've rendered the scene successfully from the light POV, and loaded the depth buffer of the scene into a texture. This texture has ...
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Rendering two textures with blending and alpha test

What I am looking for is the following: I have a circle on a square image, alpha is 0 at the corners and also a square shadow, alpha is 0 everywhere else I would like to have as final result a ...
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What techniques can I use to render very large numbers of objects more efficiently in OpenGL?

You can think of my application as drawing a very large ball-and-stick diagram (or graph). At times, this graph can get very large, where the number of elements even outnumbers the pixels on the ...
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Advice on OpenGL 2.1 [closed]

I'm looking to finally get into OpenGL to bring some game ideas of mine to life! As I want to aim for lower class systems I'm probably looking at OpenGL 2.0/2.1 using JOGL (as I know Java the best). ...
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Java OpenGl Rotating Cube Problem!

OK, so I successfully learned how to bind textures to quads and display this cool looking crate. However, when I rotate the cube something goes wrong. During rotation the back-face of the cube ...
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Can I leverage the fact that my scene is often static to improve OpenGL (JOGL) performance?

My scene is drawn based on the location of several (often several million) vertices (kept in VBO's) and a camera. I can easily tell in my code when my scene has changed and when it hasn't. There are ...
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Why would GLCapabilities.setHardwareAccelerated(true/false) have no effect on performance?

I've got a JOGL application in which I am rendering 1 million textures (all the same texture) and 1 million lines between those textures. Basically it's a ball-and-stick graph. I am storing the ...
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JOGL Hardware Shadow Mapping Transparent Shadow Texture

I'm using hardware shadow mapping on JOGL based on the demo(HardwareShadowMapping) supplied by the distribution. After generating the shadow texture from lights point of view, I apply it to my scene ...
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Error when trying to use VBO “array vertex_buffer_object must be disabled to call this method”

EDIT I have effectivley re-wrote this question in order to greatly imrpove its quality - see revision logs if you must I have narrowed down my problem to the initialisation phase of my program, when ...
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Struggling to get set up with JOGL2.0

I did have JOGL1.1 set up and working, but I soon discovered that it did not support the latest OpenGL, so I started work on upgrading to JOGL2.0 it's not gone too well. Firstly, is it worth me ...
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How should I do 3D games through Java on a mac?

I have been self-teaching myself Java on the mac mostly because the language is cross-platform. Recently, I have been only able to develop 2D games using the Graphics2D class. Now, I want to learn ...
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What causes some computers to have no or slow OpenGL, and how to fix it?

I am using Java with JOGL to create OpenGL enhanced 2D graphics. The graphics operations I use are nothing fancy, and should be supported by almost any recent graphics card. For example, my game ...