jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – fortify the town

We start with a simple game that loads a model of a town:

1. Make a copy of Main.java and name the class PhysicsTown.java. Remember to also refactor the first line of the main() method to the following:

   PhysicsTown app = new PhysicsTown();

2. Download a sample town model in the Ogre DotScene format from http://jmonkeyengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/engine/town.zip. Save it directly into your project directory (not into assets/).
3. Register a com.jme3.asset.plugins.ZipLocator for town.zip to the assetManager. Now you can use the assetManager to load the model's main.scene into the sceneNode class field. Since the model is quite small, scale it a bit bigger. As always, you attach the loaded model to the rootNode. Remember ...