Earth3D - Java Version

Earth3d was developed as a QT based C++ program, that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. However, it took some efford to support all three platforms. Especially I found it difficult to include the necessary QT libraries in a Mac OS X package. Then I saw, that Java was now fast enough for real OpenGL based 3D graphics. I ported earth3d to Java and made some enhancements so that it was even faster. The Java code can be retrieved from Sourceforge's Subversion repository.

In the following I will list the steps needed to get a startable configuration of Earth3d.

• Check out the sources from Sourceforge (see SVN page):

  svn co https://earth3d.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/earth3d earth3d

• Get JOGL for your platform from https://jogl.dev.java.net/ and put the libraries (from the lib-directory of the downloaded JOGL package, i.e. the ".jar" and ".dll/.so" files) into the lib subdirectory of the Earth3d project (earth3d/lib).
• Compile it using "src" as source directory and "lib" as library directory using your favorite IDE.
• Start the class org.earth3d.jearth.main.Earth3dMain.