Time for action – creating a project

The jMonkeyEngine SDK provides you with a preconfigured project template that gets you started at lightning speed.

This is how you create a new project:

  1. Choose File | New Project from the menu
  2. Select BasicGame from the jME3 category.
  3. You can rename the project here, but for now, accept the defaults and complete the wizard.

A new Java project named BasicGame appears in the Projects window, next to the JME3 Tests project.

The BasicGame project contains a simple Main.java template. Let's try to run this Java application:

  1. Open the BasicGame project's Source Packages, and double-click on the mygame/Main.java file to open it. You see that the JDK contains a full-featured editor for Java files.
  2. Right-click on the BasicGame ...

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