This is a short tutorial on how to start programming 3d graphics in Java language using Irrlicht IDE. First of all, you have to:

Download necessary packages

• Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) about ~100Mbs.
• Jirr (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jirr/) about ~10Mbs. Download jirr_bin and jirr packages. jirr_3rd_party is used to combine Swing and Irrlicht and you may need it later.

Setup Eclipse IDE

All you have to do is to unzip the archive you have downloaded to any folder.

Unzip jirr_bin to any folder.

Start Eclipse IDE

Go to the folder you have unzipped the Eclipse package to and click ‘eclipse.exe’ file. If you experience any problems starting Eclipse, check out the eclipse web-site, read FAQs, ask people etc. Eclipse is very very popular and you will not spend much time looking for an answer.

Create the project

Create the folder anywhere you like, name it for example: JirrTest
Make a few subfolders:

• src
• classes
• media
• lib

Copy:

• all DLL files from JIRR distribution package’s bin folder to JirrTest root folder;
• all files from JIRR distribution package’s lib folder to JirrTest/lib folder;
• all files from JIRR’s media folder to JirrTest/media folder;

Now your new JirrTest folder should look like the one on the picture:

Setup the project in Eclipse IDE

In Eclipse go to File->New->Project->Java Project

Create Demo class

Go to File->New->Class:

Copy and paste the following code:

Go to Run->Run As->Java Application

Voila! Irrlicht is up and running! That’s all folks.

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