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The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) provides access to high performance, cross-platform libraries OpenGL and OpenAL. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks.

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Problem adding texture to VBO with png texmap in OpenGL

I was doing a VBO and able to load all the data of OBJ file but now I have problem adding texture to it. what i did is that I use the slick library to get the texture file and bind it to the VBO ...
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Deferred rendering extremely slow [closed]

I'm trying to setup deferred rendering in my Voxel Engine, and so far it works pretty good: The texture, worldpos, normal and uv textures seem to be correct. One problem: With normal rendering ...
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GLSL Multiple Uniform Structs

I'm developing a lighting system for my voxel game, and I have to send multiple (alot, say up to 200) lights to my shader program. Those lights contain the following data: Position (vec3) Color ...
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GLSL Light (Attenuation, Color and intensity) formula

I'm implementing point lights in my Voxel engine, and I'm really struggling to get a good flow of light, from 100% near the light source to 0% at the light radius. I have 5 arguments for the ...
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Manual GLU.gluUnproject

Before I used GLU.gluUnproject to calculate my picking ray in my OpenGL game. Recently I switched to my own calculated matrices, and now I can forget the gluUnproject. How can I calculate the picking ...
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LWJGL Spritesheettexture with VertexBufferObjects

i've started to make a game with Java and LWJGL.. I used Imediatemode for testing and learing LWJGL. Im working on an Engine for my Game and it should be a Voxel-Engine and "MineCraft Styled". Today ...
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VBO for LWJGL to render floor [closed]

I'm trying to change all my rendering from intermediate mode to VBO. However, I'm confused on what to do. So I want to have QUADS for floor tiles from (0,0,0) to (100,100,0). However, it doesn't work. ...
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Loading Textures on a OBJ - lwjgl

I've created a obj parser that parses the OBJs right. I now need to know how I would load the textures on the model. I'm using this model: http://thefree3dmodels.com/stuff/furniture/couch/12-1-0-5262 ...
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How to use JBullet in LWJGL? [closed]

I have got a problem, because I wan't to add collision detection to my 3d game, which I am developing in Java, using the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL). I have googled a bit, and I have found ...
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How can I implement infinite scrolling by scrolling the background's texture, not the quad? [duplicate]

I'm writing a 2D platformer game on Java with LWJGL. I'm doing this just for the sake of learning and not the result itself, so when I decided to implement scrolling I did it two ways I could invent ...
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Depth Test not working properly on Nvidia

So, I send a Development Test of my in-dev game to some friends, and they found out that the Depth Test in OpenGL does not work on Nvidia. I use my own matrices and sent them to the shader, and at ...
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Move towards fails Slick2d

Vector2f move = new Vector2f(0, 0); float mAngle = (float) Math.atan2(target.getY() - position.getY(), target.getX() - position.getX()); move.x = (float) Math.cos(mAngle) * speed; ...
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OpenGL Calculate Matrices

Im trying to switch from the glTranslate etc to my own Matrices, but for some reason it does not work. Here are my 2 functions to create the view- and projection matrix: public Matrix4f ...
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Terrain Generation - Advanced [closed]

I need to generate terrain. Easy enough you might say, but I need to create Biomes if you will(Can't link of another name) lakes. Trees and on a height map. So I have really no idea how to use a ...
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Screen or World Coordinates to tile Coordinates

I have Plane made of tiles in opengl. I start drawing them at (0, 0, -20) after that i do my translations so that the view is rotated somewhat similar to an isometric (kind of) perspective. I'd now ...
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Slick2D and TileD [closed]

I've been learning Java for a while, and with my aims of being a game developer later in life, I've came across Slick2D+lwjgl and following tutorials and making some little things. However; I don't ...
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Would it be inefficient to call LWJGL from C++?

I like LWJGL, but Java? Not so much. I recently found out a way to call Java methods from C++. But would this be inefficient? I mean, calling a C/C++ DLL from Java, just to be called back again into ...
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Can't get Depth testing to work (cube faces shine through)

I'm making my first steps with OpenGL with LWJGL. I am currenlty constructing a... wait for it... CUBE. Quite creative... Up to now i made it to three of its faces and thats where the Problems began. ...
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Drawing in 3D with LibGDX

Is there any way to simply draw in 3D, just like you would draw with ShapeRenderer or SpriteBatch? All I want is to draw circles that are in x.y.z coordinates, so some circles are far away from view ...
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Detecting collision with a 3D array of boxes

I am at the stage of my development process where I want to implement collision. Now I can think of a simple way of doing it, if the camera's x, y or z are inside the position of a certain cube then ...
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How can I find the pixel color of a given position in a SlickUtils Texture?

I'm making a mini-map system for my tile based game, and I thought the best way to accomplish this would be the following: at the beginning of the game, I calculate the predominant color of every ...
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Generating a grid of cubes in 3D space [closed]

I am trying to generate a grid of cubes in 3D space and It aint workin... All im doing is for looping YXZ (in that order) (nested for loops) then im doing cubes[x][y][z] = ... (new Location(x,y,z)) ...
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MVC with looping view

For our school project we'd like to develop a game using the MVC pattern. We're all moderate new java programmers and absolutely new in game development. With our current view (containing only menu) ...
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Writing and reading from an XML file with Slick2D [closed]

I was wondering how you would go about writing and the reading from an XML file using the Java library Slick2D. I have googled for the last couple of days and have found nothing succinct and simple ...
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Rotation method for camera class [closed]

I am in the process of writing a camera class for my game but I'm stuck on how to add a method for rotating the camera. Here's my code so far. package Game; import org.newdawn.slick.Graphics; ...
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Entity moving Up and Down but not Left and Right [closed]

I am trying to create an entity class for my game but I'm having difficulty with the movement, I can get the sprite moving along the Y-Axis but not along the X-Axis. Here's my code:- package Game; ...
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Storing data for a pokemon like game

The game I'm developing is close to Pokemon. How should I store the data? I am currently thinking of text files where I save the map and have a corresponding textfile for the trainers and their teams ...
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Sidescrolling troubles [closed]

I'm making a sidescroller using java and Lwjgl. But I'm having some trouble getting the screen to actually ... well... sidescroll. The world is randomly generated and drawn in blocks. Like so: ...
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Rendering a black and white image in OpenGL 1.1

Is there is any way that I can simple disable the color in OpenGL 1.1? Or can I "grey out" textures in LWJGL?
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3D models on 2D tilemap perspective when scrolling

I am creating a small top-down game, where the player traverses a 2D tilemap, with an illusion of depth provided by 3D models for things like buildings or trees. Having gotten to the point where I ...
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A paddle in my pong game isn't moving [closed]

I'm working on a little pong game in LWJGL but only one paddle moves. I've tried to switch around some code in the hopes it would work again but it still doesn't. Here is my paddle class: public ...
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Lwjgl Random 2D Map Generation [closed]

First time poster here. I am somewhat (as in mid - low, closer to mid) experienced with Java but I seem to be having some trouble. I'm using the lwjgl library to make a "2D Minecraft-esque" game. ...
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How do I pass textures into a fragment shader in Slick?

I've written a shader that uses three different textures, tex0, tex1, and tex2. I can load it into Slick and successfully display it, but I can't figure out how to set the three different textures. ...
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LWJGL Game crashes on some other machines [closed]

I just tried running my game on a friend's laptop, but for some reason it crashes. The exported .jar runs fine on my machine, and some others too. I can see that is has something to do with the ...
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Voxel engine artifacts

There are white little dots between blocks at random places, mainly at very near blocks. They disappear when I move the mouse and change the view direction. I use Vertex Arrays with ...
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LWJGL Eclipse Resource Deployment

I'm still experimenting with some OpenGL in LWJGL, and as I get to know more and more about OpenGL, I start to do more complicated things like multi texturing, shadowmapping and more. Now, right now ...
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Is there a way to make a game using lwjgl work on android?

I'm working on a platformer and I'd like to make an android version. Do I need to rewrite everything for android, or can I use something to make the lwjgl code work with android?
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Tile Based Collision Checking In Java?

I have my map stored in 2 arrays: Tiles : Tile names TileTypes : SOLID or BASIC I want to be able to walk through BASIC Tiles (Like ground tiles). But not the SOLID Tiles (Like wall tiles). I ...
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JFrame launcher stays open when I'm finished with it

I have written a launcher that prompts the user for their name then starts the game when they hit enter. The launcher looks like this: But when the user hits enter, this happens: The launcher stays ...
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Rendering OpenGL to a specific scale [closed]

So I'm making a 2D game that I want to be able to change the window size. I plan on having the game being 4:3 and border any unused edges. Now the problem comes in that I need to take the current ...
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Where should I put my mob rendering code?

I'm making a simple LWJGL game. However, I'm a bit confused about rendering. So I have a Mob class and a TriangleMob is a basic enemy. package daniel.entity.Mob; public class TriangleMob { ...
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How to translate from Slick2d coordinates to jBox2d

I read through this question to try and get a grasp on the topic, but I can't figure out how to apply this to my Slick2d window. I'm trying to do something as simple as place an edge on the bottom of ...
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How can I draw a map that is stored in arrays [closed]

I have spent over 12 hours with no avail trying to successfully draw my map. The map is stored in an array called Tiles[]. Each value in Tiles can either be 4 numbers: Grass Stone Water Void (EMPTY ...
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Slick2D ingoring aplha channel?

When I use the draw method inside a image, it completely ingores the alpha channel and fills it in with white. Is there a way I can draw it where the alpha is see through like it's suppost to be? I ...
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Why cant I use slick-util with image IO and bufferedImage

My problem is that I get errors when I use texture = TextureLoader.getTexture("PNG", ResourceLoader.getResourceAsStream("TEXTURE PATH HERE")); it gives me these errors: Exception in thread "main" ...
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Packaging a Java game for Linux

I'm just about finished developing a small Java/Lwjgl-based game. For Windows users, I intend to use Launch4J to package the game into a nice .exe. For Mac users, I'll be using JarBundler to produce a ...
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OpenGL: Resizing Display and glOrtho/glViewport

I have researched this question from several sources and have yet to find a firm answer saying that "yes that is correct thinking" or "no, here is how it's done." I am trying to ensure resolution ...
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When to Load Assets

I'm writing a game using LWJGL and Java, and I was just wondering if there is a rule/recommended method for when to load resources. I have seen examples that load all of the resources at the ...
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How compatible is OpenAL?

I'm making a game that needs sounds and LWJGL uses OpenAL. I was wondering out of 1.0, 1.1, C 1.0 and C 1.1 which would be the best to pick? I don't know what the C is but it's there in LWJGL :). My ...
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LWJGL MouseY Coordinates are flipped

So I'm very new to using OpenGL and LWJGL, although I am proficient in Java itself. One of the first things I read in the documentation of the Display class was that it maps the origin to the bottom ...

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