As I had much difficulties importing my ogre-meshes in jme2 I had a look at ogre3d. And I have to say it is amazing! But C++ based… so not exactly my world, but with lots of bindings to alternative programming languages. e.g. python, C# AND java ( Ogre4J )
I had a look and found an eclipse-plugin. Wow,…seemed to be great. But after installation without any instructions for that plugin I didn’t exactly know how to go on. I found some instruction how to go on without plugin so I tried to mix it up what seems to be a big mistake.
So I tried the instructions how to do it manually. That seemed to work until a certain point where a jni-exception was thrown when the Sample-Application tried to load a mesh:
Parsing scripts for resource group Internal
Finished parsing scripts for resource group Internal
Mesh: Loading zuh.mesh.
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (0xe06d7363), pid=2160, tid=3812
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (11.3-b02 mixed mode, sharing windows-x86)
# Problematic frame:
# C [kernel32.dll+0x12aeb]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# D:\windows_radakan\Ogre4jTest\hs_err_pid2160.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
Wow,…what an error! And finally even me understand the people argueing against such jni-bindings. It is impossible to see where exactly the problem is. So,…nothing for me! JMonkeyEngine will stay my engine. (And if I really should switch someday I will do it in c++)
BTW: The python-binding seems to be a bit more stable.
And from tomorrow(today) on I will on JMonkeyEngine, Blender and my RPG-Engine again…..
[EDIT]
Ok…after watch in the errorlogs that were generated I found following (readable) errormessage:
00:40:23: Finished parsing scripts for resource group Internal
00:40:23: Mesh: Loading zuh.mesh.
00:40:23: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource zuh.mesh in resource group Autodetect or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 753)
And there we are. I copied the zuh.mesh file in the project-directory and not (as it was written in the instructions) in the media-directory. So my fault! I will for sure have an eye on the project also I am quite sure it is nothing for me. And even the following test of importing another mesh-worked without problem…. Argh…I was so sure minutes ago…
Here a screenshot:
screenshot of ogre3d java-binding.
