jMonkeyEngine – game engine made especially for modern 3D development

jMonkeyEngine is a game engine written primarily in Java.

Its minimalistic and code first approach makes it perfect for developers who want the support of a game engine while retaining full control over their code with the ability to extend and adapt the engine to their workflow.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Graphics:
  • Physically Based Rendering
  • Singlepass Lighting
  • Instanced Rendering.
  • Multitarget Rendering.
  • Tessellation.
  • Geometry Shaders.
  • Offscreen Rendering.
  • sRGB support with linearization.
  • Floating point textures.
  • Tone Mapping (HDR).
  • Steep Parallax.
  • Shadows.
• Physics:
  • jBullet: java porting of Bullet Engine
  • Minie : A binding to Bullet Engine, with support for rigidbody and softbody physics
• Networking:
  • Spidermonkey: A feature rich java client-server networking API that uses TCP and UDP packets. With support for RMI and Object Serialization.
  • SimEthereal : A high performance library for real-time networked object synching
  • Monkey Netty : A implementation of a server-client system using Netty.IO that utilizes both TCP and UDP.
• GUI:
  • Lemur : a modular library for 2D and 3D interactive guis, with a groovy-based styling language
  • Nifty GUI: a library to build interactive user interfaces with support for xml layouts.
  • IGUI : a minimalistic immediate GUI with minimal input handling
• Postprocessing with filters including:
  • Bloom.
  • FXAA.
  • Cartoon Edges.
  • Light Scattering (GOD rays).
  • SSAO.
  • Tone Mapping.
  • Volumetric Light.
• 3D audio with OpenAL and jmePhonon support.
• Terrain:
  • TerraMonkey: An high performance editable heightmap based terrain with autogenerated LOD and triplanar mapping.
  • Blocks : A voxel engine with support for custom shapes, physics and endless terrain.
  • IsoSurface : An isosurface terrain.
  • SimArboreal : A library to generate procedural trees.
  • SeaMonkey: Postprocessing filter that simulates water and underwater effects.
• Particles:
  • jMonkey Particles.
  • Particle Monkey.
  • jme-EffekseerNative.
• Multi Paradigm – spatial-control model and Zay-ES.

Website: jmonkeyengine.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: jMonkeyEngine
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License

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