Support OpenGL ES 1.0 or 2.0 hardware

[xranby]

X11 ARM Linux GPU only support OpenGL ES 1 and ES 2

Please design Java3D to use the GL2ES2 or GL2ES1 profile to stay compatible with both desktop and mobile GPU hardware.

[ghost]

I'm not sure it is possible, we can at least use GL2ES2 or GL2ES1 in some parts but there are a few calls that require GL2. Moreover, it would allow to use a subset of Java3D under Linux ARM but AWT is still necessary which means that Android can't be supported.

@hharrison What's your opinion about that?

[philjord]

Java3d 1.7.0 is aimed at providing a gl2es2 profile pipeline, it is underway here https://github.com/philjord/java3d-core under branch dev1.7.0

[AlessandroBorges]

I have a serious interest in this subject. I'm Aces, the guy who did the official J3D port to D3D 9.0. Let me know if I can help you.

[philjord]

Excellent stuff, I just checked in the last big change to get multiple light structures flowing through to the shaders.
Basically testing is what is needs now.
If you clone these repos and switch to dev1.7.0 you'll find lots of interesting stuff in the java3d-examples project

https://github.com/philjord/java3d-core
https://github.com/philjord/java3d-utils
https://github.com/philjord/vecmath
https://github.com/philjord/java3d-examples

But note this version of Java3D is still locked to awt, so it won't run on Android.

However that is a project I've already done, and will try to get across to the main code line at some point, but it's complex...

[AlessandroBorges]

One of my projects brings the android.opengl API to desktop. I guess it may helps development targeting android, without using Android emulators, etc.
This project includes a GLSurfaceView able to run a java.awt.Canvas - at desktop side.