I bring thee not simple rearrangements, but a whole new world of possibilities,,,

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Well soon you will hit issues with garbage collection, Java is really not great at managing it, you've mentioned you pretty much havent focused on thinking about garbage collection at all in what you have coded so far, it may work now but when you ramp things up it will become an issue. You havent managed it yet, so when it kciks in, it will block and halt the game up, which depending on how much it needs to clear up, can be multiple seconds, you really dont want that locking your game up do you.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp09275/

My engine doesn't generate much big garbage I'd assume. (It's not a game like mine craft which throws away enitre chunks from memory all the time) All forms of "assets" are loaded, cached and reused. IE Once I load a weapon model or sound or animation it's loaded and used for every every object that needs it and held in memory until you load a new map. When a new map is unloaded that's when big garbage is going to happen.

Physics will probably be one of the hardest things for you to nail down, mathematics in Java is pure ugly and you will find it a headache.

I already have physics, I'm currently using point physics on most items and projectiles. I'm using spheres for players right now (going to use cylinders later when I learn how to do that) I also have basic model based collision as well. Physics is currently less of a performance issue than GLSL right now. GLSL perfomance is my current focus. And additionally, physics are done "in the cloud" for the multiplayer aspect so a lot of it won't be an issue.

The part I don't have is angular velocity physics and ragdoll (soft body) physics. That's going to be a last touch most likely.

Theres a reason why mainstream/indies dont use Java, its uncommon for games, its considered slow, its not a low-level language. I do wonder, what did you pick Java at the start? What was your thought process?

Meh, don't know. This was my first massive programming project so I thought it a good idea to use a language with less low level management. I'm not trying to make cry engine 3 so I really don't think I should worry about performance to a massive degree. I do know if I write another engine it will probably be c++ now that I have a pretty thorough understanding of how structuring a game engine goes.

Are you at least using LWJGL?

Of course, I already stated that. Speaking of LWJGL, I hope they get occulus rift support. I'll put that in my engine.

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So here's another random test. UV animations are now possible with shaders. Will moslty use it for plasma effects and water and stuff but I just made some trippy ground shaders for a test.



Blame FFMPEG for killing my FPS. The engine was running at around 155fps.