Java 3D: How to Make a Walking Little Alien Robot (with Source Code)

#Java3D #primitives #walkingalien
This video explains how to make a little alien robot and make it walk using the Switch and BitSet classes.


Source code described in this video:
https://sites.google.com/view/flying-java-3d/videos_earlier_3/java-3d-how-to-make-a-walking-little-alien-robot (new Google Site)

Source code described in "3D Models in Java 3D: Beginners Only_7 Using Primitives vs. External Models":
https://sites.google.com/view/flying-java-3d/videos_earlier2/3d-models-in-java-3d-beginners-only_7-using-primitives-vs-external-models (new Google Site)

Source code described in "How to Make Color Cubes Visible and Invisible at Runtime by Switching Them":
https://sites.google.com/view/flying-java-3d/videos_earlier_3/java-3d-how-to-make-color-cubes-visible-and-invisible-at-runtime-by-switch (new Google Site)


To learn more:
About Java 3D:

Free online books:
Dr. Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java":
http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg
Dr. Andrew Davison's "Pro Java 6 3D Game Development":
http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg2

Beginners guide:
http://www.java3d.org/tutorial.html


About Java:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u8rFbpdvds&index=2&list=PLFE2CE09D83EE3E28
https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/index.html

Java Language Specification:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-4.html#jls-4.3.1


To use the KeyNavigatorBehavior class in my Java 3D program (Mykeynavbeh.java), I used the following code:

1) Part of code from BackgroundApp.java included in the source bundle
that accompanies Sun Microsystems' Java 3D API Tutorial
(http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/java3d/)
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Copy of the above tutorial:
https://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/cs269/Java3DTutorial/j3d_tutorial_ch0.pdf#
Change ch0.pdf to ch1.pdf-ch7.pdf in the address bar to display other chapters.

Example source code:
http://www.interactivemesh.org/off/download/java3d_tutorial_examples_src.zip


Thank you for watching my videos, and I appreciate the people who have posted wonderful free software, images, and Java 3D tutorials that allowed me to make this video.