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Chapter 1 ■ Setting Up a Java 8 Game Development Environment Other Open-Source Software Packages of Interest There are a number of other professional-level open-source software packages that I use in my new media content production business that I thought I would let you know about, in case you had not heard about them. These will add even more power and versatility to the new media production workstation that you have built up to this point. It is important to note that you have already saved yourself thousands of dollars that would have otherwise been spent on similar paid content production software packages in the process of doing all this extensive downloading and installing. I guess you could say my motto is, “Do it right the first time, and be sure to go all the way,” so let me tell you about some of the other free, and even some of the more affordable, new media content production software packages that I have installed on my own content production workstations. One of the best values in open-source software, aside from the EditShare Lightworks package, which used to cost six figures back in the day, is a business productivity software suite that was made open source by Oracle after it acquired Sun Microsystems. Oracle transferred its OpenOffice software suite over to the popular Apache opensource project. OpenOffice 4.1 is an entire office productivity software suite that contains six full-fledged business productivity software packages! Because your content production agency is actually a full-fledged business concern, you should probably know about this software, as it is an exceptionally solid open-source software offering. You can find it at www.openoffice.org; this popular business software package has been downloaded by savvy professionals such as yourself more than a hundred million times, so it’s no joke, as they say! A great complement to the Audacity digital audio editing software is Rosegarden MIDI sequencing and music composition and scoring software, which can be used for music composition and printing out the resulting scores for music publishing. Rosegarden, currently in version 14.02, and being ported from Linux to Windows, can be found via Google Search or at www.rosegardenmusic.com. Another impressive audio, MIDI, and sound design software package is Qtractor If you are running the Linux OS, be sure to download and install this professional-level digital audio synthesis software package by doing a Google search or going to https://Qtractor.SourceForge.net. For 3D character modeling and animation, be sure to check out the 3D software packages from DAZ Studio (www.daz3d.com) when you have the chance. The current version of DAZ Studio Pro is 4.6, and yes, it is free! You have to log in and sign up, like you did for EditShare Lightworks, but that is a small price to pay! There is also a free 3D modeling software package on this web site, called Hexagon 2.5, and a popular terrain generation software package for less than 20 dollars, called Bryce 7.1 Pro. The most expensive software on the DAZ Studio web site is Carrara (150 dollars) and Carrara Pro (285 dollars). DAZ Studio makes most of its revenue selling character models of one type or another, so take a look, as it is a force to be reckoned with in the 3D content (virtual) world! Another impressive (and free, for the basic version) world generation software package is Terragen 3.2, from Planetside Software, in the United Kingdom. You can download the basic version from https://planetside.co.uk as well as join its forum. I have used this software in a couple of my Android application development books, so I know it works well for multimedia applications and games. It is also used by professional filmmakers, as the level of quality is pristine. Caligari TrueSpace 7.61 is also excellent, free 3D modeling and animation software. The program, which is “free and alive!” according to the Caligari web site (https://Caligari.us), from which you can still download it, used to cost nearly a thousand dollars when it was first developed by Roman Ormandy, the founder of the Caligari Corporation (later purchased by Microsoft). A professional-level 3D modeling and animation software package, this program had millions of users in its heyday. It is a really cool piece of software, with a fun-to-use user interface (UI), so be sure to grab it! Another 3D rendering software you should take a look at is POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer), which works with any 3D modeling and animation software package to generate impressive 3D scenes, using advanced ray-traced rendering algorithms. The most recent version on the POV-Ray web site (www.povray.org), 3.7, is 64 bit and multicore (multithreaded) compatible, and it can be downloaded for free! Bishop3D is a cool 3D modeling software package that was specifically designed for use with POV-Ray. The software can be used to create custom 3D objects, which can then be imported into POV-Ray (and then into JavaFX) for use in your games. The most recent version, an 8MB download, is 1.0.5.2, for Windows 7. The software can be found at www.bishop3d.com and can currently be downloaded for free! 16 www.it-ebooks.info
Chapter 1 ■ Setting Up a Java 8 Game Development Environment Yet another free 3D modeling software worth investigating is Wings 3D. This software can be used to create custom 3D objects, which can then be imported into JavaFX for use in your games. The most recent version, a 64-bit, 16MB download, is 1.5.3 and was released in April 2014, for Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux. The software can be found at www.wings3d.com and can currently be downloaded for free! For UI design prototyping, the free software package Pencil 2.0.6, from Evolus, allows you to easily prototype UI designs before you create them in Java, Android, or HTML5. The software is located at http://pencil.evolus.vn and is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSs. Next, you will take a look at how I organize some of the basic OS utilities and open-source software on my taskbar. Organizing Quick Launch Icons in Your Taskbar Area There are certain OS utilities, such as the calculator, text editor (Notepad), and file manager (Explorer), for which I create Quick Launch icons on my taskbar, as these utilities are used frequently in programming and new media content development work processes. I also keep as Quick Launch icons a wide range of new media development, programming, and office productivity applications. Figure 1-20 displays a dozen of these, including everything that you just installed, in the order in which you installed it, as well as a few others, such as OpenOffice 4.1, DAZ Studio Pro 4.6, and Bryce 7.1 Pro. Figure 1-20. Make taskbar Quick Launch icons for key system utilities, NetBeans 8.0, and new media production software There are a couple of ways to create these Quick Launch icons: you can drag programs from the start menu and drop them onto the taskbar, or you can right-click icons on the desktop or in the Explorer file manager and select Pin this program to taskbar from the context-sensitive menu. Once icons are on the taskbar, you can change their position simply by dragging them to the left or to the right. Congratulations, you have just set up a new media Java 8 game development workstation that is highly optimized and that will allow you to create any new media Java 8 game that you or your clients can imagine! Summary In this first chapter I made sure that you have everything that you need to develop standout Java 8 games, including the latest versions of Java 8, JavaFX, and NetBeans 8.0 as well as all the latest open-source new media software. You started by downloading and installing the latest Java JDK 8 and NetBeans IDE 8.0 software. Then, you did the same for a plethora of professional open-source new media tools. In the next chapter, I will show you how to use NetBeans 8.0 to create a Java 8 project. www.it-ebooks.info 17
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