Among other work projects, I've been able to get into animation systems this week - and I feel comfortable promising that you will see a lot of progress for Ardor3D there over the next 2-3 months! :)
Since Petter (who wrote the stubs and code currently sitting in ardor3d-animations) has stepped away from us for a while due to family and job/commute pressures, I've decided to start fresh, using the knowledge and mistakes I made on the jME skin and bone system as a start and drawing some good inspiration from Jason Gregory's (Naughty Dog) book, Game Engine Architecture (highly recommended reading).
Also worth a big mention is that we're currently looking at a shift away from using JiBX to using JDOM for parsing Collada. While JiBX was getting the basic job done, it has been a pain in a number of areas, particularly the development process which helps no one. I like the tech, but probably not for something as massive and tangled as the Collada spec. JDOM will allow us to more easily ignore areas we don't support, as well as make development more simple (no class decoration step, etc.)
More on all of this as it develops.
JavaOne kaput?
Yet another rumor to add weight to the possible demise of JavaOne... An article entitled "Sun management stumbled on EU Oracle probe" on The Register is claiming they have "learned that there will be no more JavaOne conferences under the new Oracle owner."
Until Oracle comes out and confirms this (assuming the Oracle-Sun deal goes through) it's all still anyone's guess. Personally however I would not be all that surprised if this were true. JavaOne has (to me) recently seemed to be branching out into lots of tangents over the last few years and Oracle already has their own annual conference in a similar vein. Maybe they can plan a party with better entertainment than Grinder Girl (see ~4:00) / Mini Kiss? (At least they had battlebots that night)
As Malachi posts in his blog, perhaps this is an opportunity to spawn a smaller, different style of Java enthusiast annual meetup? I would vote for something that had a heavier emphasis on gaming/entertainment. :)
Until Oracle comes out and confirms this (assuming the Oracle-Sun deal goes through) it's all still anyone's guess. Personally however I would not be all that surprised if this were true. JavaOne has (to me) recently seemed to be branching out into lots of tangents over the last few years and Oracle already has their own annual conference in a similar vein. Maybe they can plan a party with better entertainment than Grinder Girl (see ~4:00) / Mini Kiss? (At least they had battlebots that night)
As Malachi posts in his blog, perhaps this is an opportunity to spawn a smaller, different style of Java enthusiast annual meetup? I would vote for something that had a heavier emphasis on gaming/entertainment. :)
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