Editing Java 3D (section)

==Features==

[[File:Java3DStarSystemScreenShot.png|thumb|A screenshot of work drawn with Java 3D]]

*Multithreaded [[scene graph]] structure
*[[Cross-platform]]
*Generic [[real-time computer graphics|real-time]] API, usable for both visualization and gaming
*Support for [[retained mode|retained]], compiled-retained, and [[immediate mode (computer graphics)|immediate mode]] rendering
*Includes hardware-accelerated [[Java OpenGL|JOGL]], [[OpenGL]], and [[Direct3D]] renderers (depending on platform)
*Sophisticated virtual-reality-based view model with support for stereoscopic rendering and complex multi-display configurations
*Native support for [[head-mounted display]]
*[[Cave Automatic Virtual Environment|CAVE]] (multiple screen projectors)
*[[3D audio effect|3D spatial sound]]
*Programmable shaders, supporting both [[GLSL]] and [[Cg programming language|CG]]
*[[Stencil buffer]]
*Importers for most mainstream formats, like [[.3ds|3DS]], [[Wavefront .obj file|OBJ]], [[VRML]], [[X3D]], [[NWN (file format)|NWN]], and [[OpenFlight|FLT]]