MegaView, JOGL OpenGL Java 3D Engine

MegaView is a 3D OpenGL Engine using JOGL bindings for Java. It's another study-project with the goal to educate myself in this genre. It has an amazing performance (more than 35 fps in a 300.000 faces szene with realtime shadows, projection and normalmapping on GF8800) which is not worse than native implementations in other languages. Try the Java Webstart version here.

Important features

Per pixel lightning
NormalMapping in Pseudo-Tangentspace
Hemisphere lightning
Texture-Projection
Softshadowing by Shadowmapping filtering
Fog- and Fire Particle
Blooming and HDR-Simulation
Multithreaded per frame sequence processes
Timed Processes
Recursive Szenegraph/Szeneelement pattern for OpenGL statemachine
MP3 replay
Camera dependent ordering
Spherical and Cylindrial Billboarding
Camera effect
Mirror effect
Shader fading effect
Shader Black and White filtering effect
Wavefront, Heightmap and MD2 Modelloader
Efficent Vertexnormal calculation using a hashmap collision technique
Transparent encapsulations for DisplayLists, VertexArrays and Vertex Buffer Objects
High performance polygonal output due to objectreusing and Vertex Buffer Objects
among many other features...

License

The MegaView Engine itself is distributed under the GPL. But be aware of other licenses, especially for the third party media content (sounds, textures, models). They all have individual licenses, which I listed in the readme file delievered with the download. In short, you are only allowed to use most of the media in a non-commercial context.

Video

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FAQ

Here are some frequently asked questions.

Which hardware do I need?
MegaView was testet on Windows XP 64 and Windows XP. It should run on every NVIDIA Geforce G92 based graphiccards (tested with GF 8800 GT, GF 9800GTX and GF9600M). Indeed there are many issues with AMD based chips, but sadly I have no modern ATI Card to fix that, so Shader won't compile until now and even the fixed pipeline seems to be broken.
A DualCore with 1024MB free RAM and 512MB dedicated graphicsmemory should be fine.

Which software do I need?
MegaView was successfully tested with the 32 and 64 bit Sun-Java-6 JVM for the Windows XP 32 and Windows XP 64 plattform. Furthermore is runs quite good on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 64bit.

Java is slow!
Perhaps it is, perhaps it's not, but the important parts resides directly in the graphicscards memory, so don't bother about that.

Why you use 7zip?
To save serverspace and bandwidth. Because I want to publish all relevant binary files for all relevant systems in one file, any other compress algorithm I tested, are simply too stupid to pack it efficient.

History

[26. February 2009]
Release of the first version 0.01 of MegaView-Engine with two bundled demos. You need a 7zip compatible software for decompression. You can also try out the 0.01 Version of MegaView as Webstart.

Known bugs for 0.01
Yes, indeed there are bugs (what a surprising). The already mentioned ATI-Bug and some shadowmapping issues, if resolution is another than the defaults 1024x768. What is more the Linux distribution doesn't run out of the box. Simpliest thing is to copy *.so files to your /lib folder. Also the process has to be terminated by hand (using Ubuntu 8.10 64 and NVIDIA driver 177), because JVM seems to hang.