Cardboard VR Projects for Android

Creating a Sphere component

Our Solar System will be constructed from spheres, representing planets, moons, and the Sun. Let's first create a Sphere component. We are going to define a sphere as a triangle mesh of vertices that form the surface of the sphere (For more information on a triangle mesh, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_mesh).

Right-click on the RenderBoxExt/components folder, select New | Java Class, and name it Sphere. Define it as public class Sphere extends RenderObject:

public class Sphere extends RenderObject{
    private static final String TAG = "RenderBox.Sphere";
    public Sphere() {
        super();
        allocateBuffers();
    }
}

The constructor calls a helper method, allocateBuffers, which allocates buffers for vertices, normals, ...