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Frankly I haven’t been doing a good enough job keeping the outside world posted on all the major advancements happening here in the jMonkey community. So here’s to a fresh start: Normen Hansen just posted an update for the jMonkeyPlatform’s status and roadmap page. For your convenience, here’s that roadmap again, as of 23. July 2010:

jMonkeyPlatform – status and roadmap
About jMonkeyPlatform

Status
alpha

Roadmap
Also see the filtered googlecode issue tracker.

Alpha 1:
- SimpleGame template (done)
- Examples template (done)
- Asset folder handling (done)
- OgreXML Model import (done)
- Model viewing (done)
- Model tree view incl. spatial properties view (done)
- Draggable scene object code templates (partial)
- Simple scene composition (done)

Available in the jMonkeyEngine3 SDK Alpha-1 here.

Alpha 2:
- Material / shader editing (partial)
- Improved scene editor (done)

Beta:
- Terrain / map editing
- Cinematics editor

Please also have a look at the constantly updated Documentation for info on how to use the current jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. builds. This is by no means the final version of how things will be but its some hints for people who want to try around with the current builds.

Screenshots / Videos
YouTube model loading video
YouTube web start video

main window
about window / splash screen
timeline editor
timeline properties
niftygui xml editor with code completion
niftygui preview tab

development version build infos
wiki page

Highlights

• OgreXML Tools – 14. June 2010
• Material / j3m Editor – 17. July 2010
• SimpleSceneComposer (Major) Improvements – 22. July 2010
• Image Editor Plugin – 23. July 2010, sweet bonus, courtesy of ‘pgi’

A major shout-out also needs to to our very own Ruth ‘Zathras’, who keeps slipping in new docs right under our noses. Frankly, I’ve never seen alpha software this well documented, so y’all better recognize!

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