I updated the help file to add notes about the Arch and staircase primitive/template.
About 8mb, CHM format. To access from jDesigner3D rename the file "jDeisgner3D.chm, and place in the Jet3D /bin directory.
Then it can be accessed from the Help menu in jDesigner directly.

Jet3D Help file v2.6

I am almost done with the new material definitions. Materials will allow the developers to control the renderstates of the driver. They work kinda like a mixture of Quake 3 shaders and Ogre Materials. Being that Jet3D does not use shaders (yet...), the fixed function pipeline needs to be able to be customized to allow better special effects.



A simple material definition would look like this:



material mansion/wood_floor

{

base… Continue

Download MSVC++ 2008 Express.
Grab the latest Dx9 SDK
and some extra MFC libs

And you can compile the Jet3Dx CVS for free.

Tutorial coming soon.