jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – welcome to Dark Town

From the point of view of a 3D engine, shading and lighting are two separate things. You may have noticed that, by default, our walls, bricks, and cannon balls don't cast drop shadows onto the floor or on each other.

This is how you can activate drop shadows using a SceneProcessor:

1. Make a copy of Main.java and name the class ShadowDirectional.java. Remember to also refactor the first line of the main() method to ShadowDirectional app = new ShadowDirectional().
2. Create a directional light source and add it to the scene:

   public void simpleInitApp() {
     DirectionalLight sun = new DirectionalLight();
     sun.setDirection(new Vector3f(.3f, -0.5f, -0.5f));
     rootNode.addLight(sun);

3. Create a DirectionalLightShadowRenderer object ...