JMini3d

A minimalistic OpenGL2 3D engine for mobile apps that supports Android and GWT (Google Web Toolkit, for creating HTML5 apps using Java).

HTML5 demo: http://www.mobialia.com/jmini3d-demo-gwt/

It also includes an input abstraction library (with key & pointer events) for Android and GWT.

JMini3d is used in 3D Mobialia games (http://www.mobialia.com) with Android and HTML5 versions like:

• Mobialia Chess: http://chess.mobialia.com http://www.mobialia.com/apps/chess
• Slot Racing: http://slot.mobialia.com http://www.mobialia.com/apps/slot
• Mobialia Four in a Row: http://fourinarow.mobialia.com http://www.mobialia.com/apps/fourinarow

Features

• Optimized for speed and smooth rendering
• Extremely fast model loading (converts OBJ models to Java classes)
• Phong lighting model with multiple lights (Ambient/Point/Directional), no attenuation with the distance
• Reflections with cube environment mapping
• HUD and 2D sprites support
• Normal maps
• Vertex colors
• Bitmap font support

Subprojects

• core: includes the common classes between Android and GWT projects
• android: the Android library project implementing the OpenGLES 2.0 Renderer3d, Activity3d, GlSurfaceView3d, etc.
• gwt: the GWT library project implementing the WebGL Renderer3d, EntryPoint3d, Canvas3d, etc.
• utils: includes utilities to generate Geometry classes from OBJ models and Font classes from FNT files
• demo-common: The common files for the demo project with a SceneController and multiple Scenes
• demo-android: The Android demo application
• demo-gwt: The demo project in GWT

Axis

This library uses by default the same axis system than Blender, Z is up, Y is front. It is right handed.

 z   y
 |  /
 | /
 |------x

The axis system can be changed to the standard OpenGL system (-Z front, Y up) calling to JMini3d.useOpenglAxisSystem()

HUD Scenes

Jmini3D has a HudCamera and a HudScene to render scenes in 2D with textures as sprites. There is also a SpriteGeometry and a SpriteMaterial. The hud scenes may be rendered on top of other 3D scenes.

The coordinates for HUD sprites start in the top left corner with width and height in screen pixels:

       x
  0------- width
  |
y |
  |
height

When the screen size changes, the Scene is notified with setViewPort(int width, int height) and it must readjust the HUD elements.

Android

To use the library in an Android app you can extend the Activity3d class or use the GlSurfaceView3d.

The image resources must be in the "drawable-nodpi" resource folder. The ResourceLoader is initialized with a reference to the Android context.

GWT

In GWT you must extend the EntryPoint3d or use the Canvas3d wrapper (wraps a DOM canvas element).

The image resources must be in a subfolder of the web project location (src/main/webapp/), the ResourceLoader is initialized with ./resources/ by default. The GLSL shaders should be copied manually to a web project folder, ./shaders/ by default.

In mobile devices when using:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

the canvas must be upscaled by the canvas3d.getDevicePixelRatio(). The scale must be set also in the InputController, you can see how it works in the demo.

Generate Geometries from OBJ files

Export to OBJ from Blender (faces must be triangulated and normals outside) with this options:

• Write Normals
• Include UVs
• Triangulate faces
• Y Forward
• Z up

And convert to a Java class with:

cd utils
../gradlew jar
java -cp ./build/libs/jmini3d-utils-0.9.3.jar jmini3d.utils.Obj2Class teapot.obj TeapotGeometry.java jmini3d.demo

The generated TeapotGeometry.java is a Java class in the jmini3d.demo package extending Geometry.

Generate Fonts from FNT files

Jmini3D can use FNT bitmap fonts in text format exported, for example, with the SnowB Bitmap Font generator https://snowb.org/.

To convert the FNT file to a Java class:

cd utils
../gradlew jar
java -cp ./build/libs/jmini3d-utils-0.9.3.jar jmini3d.utils.Fnt2Class arial.fnt ArialFont.java jmini3d.demo

The font texture must be placed in the images folder. It supports fonts with only one texture.

Materials and Textures

• A Material can receive a Texture, for example:

Material m1 = new Material(new Texture("texture.png"));

• Textures support PNG and JPEG formats
• A same Texture object can be shared between different materials, and it is uploaded only once to the GPU
• Material has a setBlending method to enable texture transparency

Build

This project is built with the Gradle build tool, you can download it from http://www.gradle.org

Build Android demo and install it on the connected device or emulator:

cd demo-android
../gradlew installDebug

Build the GWT demo in the demo-gwt/src/main/webapp/ directory:

cd demo-gwt
../gradlew compileGwt

You can start a local webserver:

cd demo-gwt
../gradlew appRun

then, access it with your web browser at http://localhost:8080/jmini3d/

Using JMini3d in other projects

This library's JARs and AARs are distributed via JitPack (https://jitpack.io/#mobialia/jmini3d). To use them, first include this repository in your gradle file:

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

and then reference the Jmini3D libraries; example for an Android project:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.mobialia.jmini3d:jmini3d-core:0.9.5'
    implementation 'com.github.mobialia.jmini3d:jmini3d-android:0.9.5@aar'
}

Licenses

It's released under the MIT License, so feel free to use it anywhere.

The cube texture in the demos is CC licensed from Humus http://www.humus.name