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Ferox

Ferox is a collection of libraries and frameworks for graphics and game programming, with features including:

  • Convenient wrapper over OpenGL that manages textures and VBOs, and provides type safety and enum definitions.
  • Support for 2D, 3D, and cube map textures in PNG, JPEG, GIF, TGA, and DDS file formats.
  • Support for GLSL shaders, FBOs and render-to-texture functionality, and multiple render targets.
  • Convenient scene description library built on top of the renderer and using the Entreri entity-component framework.
  • Rigid-body physics engine ported from Bullet.
  • Convenient input event handling using triggers.

Maven

Ferox will be released to the Central Repository shortly. In the mean time, the current SNAPSHOT can be installed locally and depended on using:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.lhkbob.ferox</groupId>
  <artifactId>ferox</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <!-- to get the LWJGL-based renderer implementation -->
  <groupId>com.lhkbob.ferox</groupId>
  <artifactId>ferox-renderer-lwjgl</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Modules

Ferox contains several modules. The top-level ferox module serves as a container to build them and provide common settings. The other modules are as follows:

  • ferox-input - A keyboard and mouse event abstraction that can wrap AWT's event system, or poll-based systems (such as LWJGL's Keyboard and Mouse). It provides a logic and trigger image on top of these events.
  • ferox-math - A 3D vector math library, and implementations of spatial indices, such as octrees and quadtrees. Contains optional property definitions to use the math types within Entreri components.
  • ferox-physics - A rigid-body physics simulator integrated with the Entreri component framework. This is a from-scratch port of Bullet to Java, and is not related to JBullet.
  • ferox-renderer - Type-safe and thread-safe interface to OpenGL, and object-oriented resource support for textures, vertex buffers, and shaders. It is forward compatible for OpenGL 3.0 and 4.0.
  • ferox-renderer-jogl - Implementation of renderer API using the JOGL 2.0 OpenGL wrapper.
  • ferox-renderer-lwjgl - Implementation of renderer API using the LWJGL OpenGL wrapper.
  • ferox-scene - A scene library built on the Entity component framework and uses the Ferox renderer to render scenes. It is compatible with the Ferox physics engine to easily add physics simulations to 3D scenes.
  • ferox-util - A collection of utilities ranging from java.util.collections extensions to profiling and runtime monitoring tools.
  • ferox-demos - Test applications for the other modules.