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Saturday Aug 11, 2007

3D for Netbeans 6.0 - Developer Edition of OpenGl-Pack released

A developer release of the OpenGL-Pack for the recent Netbeans 6.0 IDE is available for download. The installation is easy - the modules are downloaded via the update center (but they are not included in the NBM-file). The OpenGL-Pack requires daily builds which are newer than M10+, I tested it with the daily build from the 10.08.2007. There are some really interesting features:

OpenGL Shading Language Compiler/Linker integration and syntax highlighting
Compile and Link arbitrary shaders
Auto Completion with GLSL doc
JOGL Components now via FormDesigner palette available
Ready to run JOGL Demo Projects and RedBook samples included
OpenGL Capabilities Viewer

See also screenshots from "New and Noteworthy". There are some impressive NB-Sample Projects (e.g. JOGLProceduralTexturePhysicsDemo) already included. The OpenGL-Pack is well documented - which is unusual for the first public developer release. The compiler as well as the syntax highlighting are seamlessly integrated into the IDE.

Posted at 02:04PM Aug 11, 2007 by Adam Bien in Java / JEE / Architecture | Kommentare[1]