The jMonkey Engine framework (jME) is a high-performance, 3D scenegraph based graphics API, written in Java. It supports both LWJGL and JOGL OpenGL rendering systems. jME is completely open-source under the BSD license and you are free to use it in anyway you see fit, be it hobby or commercial. The current version is jME2, jME3 is in development.

• About the jMonkeyEngine Framework (jME)
  • Video: Joshua Slack about jME
  • Video: jME in Action
• Complete Feature List
• Glossary of Terms
• License Info
• jME ChangeLog

Please read the contributors handbook and feel free to add any details you think might help prospective contributors such as yourself.

Also consider participating in Google Summer of Code 2010!

• Hardware Compatibility List
• Required Software
• jME Download

• Eclipse IDE: 3.4, 3.5 / video-tutorial (3.5)
• NetBeans IDE: 6.7+ (SVN) / 6.7+ with jME 2.0.1 / 6.1 / 6.5 (using maven) / older versions
• IntelliJ IDE: 6/7/8
• BlueJ IDE: any

"UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path" solution

Video: Creating Games on the Java Platform with the jMonkeyEngine (JavaOne 2008)

1. Hello World - SimpleGame, rootNode, Box
2. Hello Node - Nodes, Bounding Volumes, basic Colors, Translating and Scaling, Sphere
3. Hello TriMesh - TriMesh, custom 3D shapes
4. Hello States - MaterialState, TextureState, Colors/LightState
5. Hello KeyInput - KeyBinding, Texture Wrapping and Scaling
6. Hello ModelLoading - Loading 3-D models, BinaryImporter, FileConverter
7. Hello MousePick - Clicking, InputSystem, AbsoluteMouse vs RelativeMouse, Transparency
8. Hello Intersection - Shooting bullets: Sound, basic Collision Detection, Skybox
9. Hello Terrain - TerrainBlock, HeightMap, ProceduralTextureGenerator
10. Hello Animation (1) - SpatialTransformer, moving LightNode
11. Hello Animation (2) - Morphing, KeyframeController
12. Hello LevelOfDetail - Faster Performance using AreaClodMesh, moving CameraNode using CurveController
13. Hello SimpleGame - Renderer, DisplaySystem, Update Loop, InputSystem, FirstPersonHandler

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Zathras' Beginner's FAQ

• User's Guide (as PDF) - Examples might be outdated but lots of concepts are explained.

• Extending SimpleGame, Introduction to Scenes
  1. Starting with SimpleGame – The game loop
  2. Creating Your First App With SimpleGame – Objects and Textures in the Scene
  3. Creating your First Scene – Objects and Bounding Volumes in the Scene
  4. StandardCanvasGame – An example by a user

• Flag Rush Tutorial Series by Mojomonkey – Writing a full-featured jME game

• API/Feature Mapping – “I want to do X, what jME API do I use?”

• About materials
  1. MaterialState, ambient, diffuse, specular and emissive colors and shininess
  2. Material transition controller
  3. Transparency
  4. Color blending
• transparency vs translucency
• JME 2.X tutorial: object transparency
• Procedural/Dynamic Texture
• Quad Repeating Texture
• Per-pixel lightning
• Hardware Texture Splatting
• Procedural Alphamap creation
• Pointlight brightness

• GameControl Basics
• InputSystem and InputHandler guide
• Limit Camera Rotation
• additional chasecam by core-dump

• Mouse Picking
• Markers/Highlights Under Player Units (1), (2)
• Label Above Player Units (1), (2)

• HUDs for the total noob
• GBUI: Creating your jME Interface Using GBUI, GBUI BStyleSheet, Custom truetype-font in GBUI
• FengGUI: Eclipse Guide to FengGUI, Integrating FengGUI with jME, New Integrating FengGUI with jME
• AngelCode's BitmapFont, Bitmap Font Generator
• Progress Bar
• A "Loading..." Screen using TransitionGameState/LoadingGameState (2) (3)
• A Mini-map Screen Overlay

• TerrainPages, HeightMaps, Texturing
• Terrain Splatting (2) (3)
• Terrain Systems
• SkyDome

• Water and Reflection
  • Simple Reflection
• Night and Shadow
  • Working with Shadows
  • X-Ray Shader
  • Phong Shader
  • Shadow Mapping
  • ProximityShadowPass
  • Black and White Shader
  • Night Vision
• Fire and Glowing
  • Particle-Fireworks for Dummies
  • Blurred 'Glow' Effect
  • Laser effect
  • Soot effect
  • Tracer Bullets
• Rain, Lightning, Atmosphere
  • Rain
  • Atmospheric Rendering
  • Atmospheric Scattering
  • Lightning Strike
• Miscellaneous
  • Fur Effect Using Shell Rendering
  • Cartoon Effect

• Astar pathfinding with jME
• A* pathfinding with StandardGame
• Z-Path by Richard Fhager

• StandardGame, GameStates, and Multithreading (A New Way of Thinking)
• Concurrency and Multithreading in Game Design
• SimpleGame to StandardGame
• Clean shutdown of StandardGame
• What calls must be made from the OpenGL Thread?

• jbullet-jme - New Physics Library – Forum Thread
• Simple Physics
• External jME-Physics2 Tutorials
• Walking and Jumping Character with jME-physics
• Moving a Robot With jme2physics

• Unified Model Loading
• Blender
  • Importing Models From Blender
  • Exporting .obj Models From Blender
  • Blender(2.48)->jME2-Tutorial
  • Exporting animated .md3 Models From Blender
  • Exporting animated .md5 Models From Blender
  • Ogre3d XML
    • Blender -> OgreXML Tutorial
    • minimal instructions blender->ogre->jME2
    • jME SceneLoading with OgreImporter seems to be broken
  • HottBJ-Blender-Exporter
    • HottBJ, Handy Object Transfer Tool, Blender to jME Tutorial / Basics
    • HottBJ, Handy Object Transfer Tool, Blender to jME Tutorial / Materials
    • HottBJ, Handy Object Transfer Tool, Blender to jME Tutorial / Animation
    • HottBJ, Handy Object Transfer Tool, Blender to jME Tutorial / Advanced Game Integration
  • MD5 (Quake3)
    • MD5Importer MD5-Importer ?
    • MD5 Reader 2 MD5-Reader ?
    • BSP File Importer (Quake 3 BSP)
• Others
  • Wings3D: Exporting .obj Models From Wings3D
  • World of Warcraft: World of Warcraft Model Viewer
  • Maya: Maya Loader
  • AC3D: AC3DToJme
  • CAL3D: Cal3dj Loader and Viewer
  • Delgine: Delgine Importer

See also: Free 2D/3D models

• JGN - Java Game Networking
• Eclipse Guide to JGN
• Project DarkStar: DarkstarJMEIntegration

• Packaging and Deploying JME applications
• Writing a simple jME enabled Java Applet
• JNLP Web-startable Applets
• LWJGL Tutorial - How to use applets
• jME Web Start (JNLP) Step-by-Step

• Tools and Add-Ons
• Sample Games and Demos and Showcase of free and commercial games
• JVM Options
• related books
• jME Class Reference
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • miscellaneous_tips_collected_by_mindgamer
  • Community Tips
  • misc._tips_and_tricks_from_our_users
• Unit Testing
• Math for Java Game Programmers
• Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics
• code_snippets_-_jme_2 (outdated jME 1 code snippets)
• Transition from jME1 to jME2
  • GeometryBatch
  • Offscreen Renderer
  • SceneGraphDump
  • Rendering Scalar Fields
  • Fractals
• Resource Links – 3-D mesh editors, 3-D models, textures, photos, audio (free and paid).