Blender’s current internal renderer is quite old and is being updated with a modern renderer called Cycles. It is included in the current version but you have to manually select it. It’s still in its early stages and still has a limited feature set. The results are already very promising though. They look much more [...]
The onSurfaceCreated() method in the Renderer is called every time the rendering starts or whenever the context is lost. This typically happens when the orientation changes or when the device wakes up after going to sleep. When the context is lost, all the textures are deleted from memory. This is not something Rajawali inflicts upon [...]
This small tutorial is going to focus on the syntax for creating materials only. If you want to go over the basics then please read this first: Rajawali Tutorial 1: Basic Setup & a Sphere Rajawali Tutorial 2: Creating a live wallpaper and importing a model Alright. Let’s create some materials Simple Material A basic [...]
I’m going to be lazy and make you download the zipped Eclipse project. Get it here. The basics of Android live wallpapers are well documented so I won’t go over that. I suggest you take a look at AndroidManifest.xml, /res/xml/preferencescreen.xml, /res/xml/settings.xml and com.rajawali.tutorials.WallpaperSettings for wallpaper specific stuff. Here are the specifics for Rajawali. The RajawaliTutorial2Wallpaper [...]
So here’s the first very basic Rajawali tutorial. Any questions, let me know Create a new project in Eclipse (Right-click in Package Explorer and choose New > Project … Android Project). Use these values in the configuration screen: project name: RajawaliTutorial1 the “Build Target” should be at least “2.2″ application name: RajawaliTutorial1 package name: rajawali.tutorials create [...]
I’ve been working on this on and off for the last couple of months. It is by no means a fully-featured 3D engine. It has some nice features and I figured I might as well move it to a public repository so other people can use it as well. The other 3D engine for Android [...]
NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers. I haven’t done anything with Min3D for while. I know people have logged some bugs on Google Code but I haven’t had the time to look at them yet. Shame on me. Seeing the [...]
I managed to get my head around the basics of OpenSceneGraph by reviewing the book OpenSceneGraph 3.0 Beginner’s Guide. I picked up a few things that were very interesting. OSG has a very convenient way of using an optimisation technique called Level of Detail management. Simply said: when an object is far away from the [...]
Packt Publishing sent me this OpenSceneGraph 3.0 beginner’s guide for review. I have worked with 3D engines like Irrlicht and Ogre but I never had the chance to properly look at OpenSceneGraph. The latter is apparently used a lot in scientific visualisation & simulation while Irrlicht and Ogre are mostly used for games & entertainment. [...]
Disclaimer: I’ve kept the session descriptions short. I recommend keeping an eye on the video site on which the session videos will be published. The rural village of Stechelberg in Switzerland was the setting of the second edition of the gotoAndSki() conference. Skiing in the Alps is always a great experience and combining this with [...]
