access to ardor3d-android

[renanse]

SVN info (barebones) is up on the wiki. (Would someone kindly volunteer to add more meat to that page? )

You can also download the precompiled ardor3d-android jar from here. I will try to upload updates as I can, at least until we get this tied into hudson and autobuilds. You'll need that, plus ardor3d-core.jar and the google collections jar in your application (you can get both from svn... the core jar in our ardor3d-android svn is shrunk a bit more than usual.) You may be able to use other ardor3d jars as well, though none that use AWT or shaders... I know animation works (slowly) for example.

Also, just an fyi that i uploaded the obligatory box example (ancient ardor3d tradition) to the wiki here.

[MikaelB]

Great news, Josh !
I'll try to get my project on the Android platform tonight after work, just to see how much frame rate the emulator can obtain rendering a simple 3D scene...

[methius]

Updated wiki page with "Performance", divided among most recent Android releases.
Added performance for "Google Nexus One", running @ 55 fps.

[methius]

Further updated, looking at limits of device.
Simple increase of boxes, distributed across screen runs at steady 20fps @ 40 boxes.

[methius]

I started work on the project now and added the A3D-extra package to the mix in a 9 AM, half hour effort to enable the OBJ importer.

Currently difficulty lies in the way resources are handled on Android.
The traditional resources route is a no go, as the OBJ importer requires me to have the same <filename>.(MTJ/OBJ/PNG), and Android requires me to have unique names.
The alternative route (class.getClassLoader()) seems te be giving me some troubles at the moment.

Should I start on a workaround or have you already looked into this matter?

[renanse]

Personally I would consider it a mistake to do importers on the android device directly as they will be slower than loading a binary directly. My two cents. We should probably have this conversation in a different topic though.

edit: here's a new forum specifically for ardor3d-android dev discussions viewforum.php?f=17

[MikaelB]

Hello Josh,

My point on this android preview : neat !
It seems really awesome. I just tried a few test (as currently my project doesn't compile for Android, I need to make some changes) and it runs quite well. On the example, I got about 45-48fps on the emulator. Not that bad !
The only problem I found was that it doesn't run on the Android 1.5, as I got verifying errors from the AndroidMouseWrapper class at activity loading. I had to download the Android 2.1 target in order to get the example to work.

[renanse]

Yeah, we specified that it would have to be 2.1 or greater in earlier threads such as viewtopic.php?f=16&t=731&start=10#p5454
That said, it may be possible to get it running on earlier sdks, but it's not been on our radar yet.

[Endolf]

Hi

The FPS fluctuates around 52fps +/- 5 on my HTC Hero.

I confess it's not stock firmware, which might influence the results, I'm running VillainROM 10.3.2 and it's clocked to 614mhz.

HTH

Endolf

[renanse]

FYI, the API has been updated with changes to the core that remove more garbage creation. Get the updates from the download link (above, or on the wiki) or from svn.