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The jMonkeyEngine team is happy to announce the release of jMonkeyEngine3 SDK Alpha-2!

Many improvements have been made to the core jMonkeyEngine as well as to the jMonkeyPlatform since Alpha-1 and generally jME3 is gaining more and more steam. We are happy to see many new users and even contributors and that tells us that we are on the right way. Everybody is very determined to make the jME3 SDK a premier OpenGL and game development tool and we are just as eager as you to see a beta soon .

See a partial list of changes hee:

jMonkeyEngine

• PSSM / SSAO
• Picking / Collision fixed
• New Input System
• Many Physics improvements, esp. Vehicle
• Physics load/save
• First implementation of a water shader (WIP)
• Many small bug fixes and added methods

• Way faster jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. due to fixed logging bug
• Material (j3m) editing in jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. (video)
• Improved SceneComposerA plugin in the jMonkeyEngine3 SDK, allows editing the content of j3o files which represent a complete scene or model. (see video below)
• Linking of models into scenes (see video below)
• Physics support in SceneExplorer
• Texture editing tool
• Online Documentation for jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. and jME3 via “F1″
• GLSL Code Editor (Contribution Center)
• Collada Import (Contribution Center, Alpha)

This is the first release that introduces a new installer and by using advanced compression, we were able to reduce the release download size to 75MB, including jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK., jME and all test data.

jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. alpha-2 also introduces the “jMonkeyPlatform User Contributions” update center. If you go to “Tools”->”Plugins”->”Available Plugins” you can install some new plugins to jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. that are not part of the core jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. but have been contributed by users or are packaged from external libraries/projects (Category jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. User Contributions).

Download jMonkeyEngine3 SDK Alpha-2 for your OS now:

• Windows
• MacOSX
• Linux

If you have problems after installing, delete your jMonkeyPlatform settings folder:

Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\.jmonkeyplatform
Windows (alt): C:\Users\<username>\.jmonkeyplatform\
MacOSX: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/jmonkeyplatform
Ubuntu:  /home/<username>/.jmonkeyplatform

Happy coding,

the jMonkeyEngine Team