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[Darego]

hi there, i'm pretty decent at java as a whole but i am just after starting getting into game programming. i am following this java rpg tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF76C2BB0B6FE7848

but i don't think i should go much further until i figure some stuff out, namely rendering. can someone please outline rendering to me in java game programming terms and how i implement it into my code? or even a link that explains graphics rendering in java? so many render() methods and i don't understand exactly how they are working

cheers

Edited by Darego, 03 January 2013 - 02:29 AM.

[StaticCube]

Hi,

 

I personally use lwjgl for 3D rendering in java and Slick2D for rendering 2D. 

 

For both libraries there are a few tutorials on the website of lwjgl: http://lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Getting_started. I personally used this tutorials and must say after doing a few of them I understoot how rendering works (at least with this library). The code is pretty clean so it should be fairly simple to see what is going on.

 

With kind regards,

 

StaticCube

[Darego]

thanks a lot for the reply. i won't be going near any 3d stuff so i will look into slick2d is it possible to use lwjgl for 2d rendering also or?

[StaticCube]

Well it is possible but for 2D I would really suggest Slick2D. The reason comes from there site to be honest ;):
Slick2D is an easy to use set of tools and utilites wrapped around LWJGL OpenGL bindings to make 2D Java game development easier.

[Darego]

so slick2d is a combination of lwjgl and openGL?

[StaticCube]

Correct best of both worlds imho

[yckx]

Actually, lwjgl is an OpenGL binding for Java, and slick2d is an lwjgl wrapper that handles the projection issues needed to render in 2D with OpenGL behind the scenes, and exposes a 2D API. In short, lwjgl can do 2D or 3D, and slick2d uses it to make it easier to do 2D.