Java 3D: How to Create Saturn and Its Rings and Navigate through the Rings (with Source Code)

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This video explains how to create Saturn and its rings that you can dive through by moving the viewpoint.

Source code described in this video:

Source code described in
"Java 3D: How to Create and Navigate through the Universe"

Source code described in
"Java 3D: How to Make a Little Alien Robot Walk Around on an Asteroid"

Source code described in
"How to Put a Downloaded Free Blend Swap Model into Java 3D and Manipulate It_4_2"

3D model file I used:

1) 3D rock model (Mars Exploration Rover) CC Zero (C) by argonius
License Terms:

Image files I used;

1) Saturn
downloaded from
License:
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

2) Universe
downloaded from
License:
CC0 Creative Commons
Free for commercial use

Illustration I used:
1) Leaf
License:

To learn more:
About Java 3D:

Free online books:
Dr. Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java":
Dr. Andrew Davison's "Pro Java 6 3D Game Development":

About Java:

Java Language Specification:

To use the KeyNavigatorBehavior class in this source code, I used the following code:

that accompanies Sun Microsystems' Java 3D API Tutorial
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Copy of the above tutorial:

Example source code:

Thank you for watching my video, and I appreciate the people who have posted wonderful free software, images, models, and Java 3D tutorials that allowed me to make the video.

[FlyingD]

Corrected:

[1] Please add the following (1:50~), otherwise an arrow will not appear:
ctrl-x key
ctrl-v key

Drag the left mouse button (LMB),
then release it.
ctrl-x key (← here)
ctrl-v key
Drag this arrow.


[2] In "Source Code Explanation" of this video, 13:28~
← Add this. (11) (line 112)
is missing. Please add this after (10).