hi :)my group mates and myself are designing a game engine in jogl.
we have papers for rendering,but need recently published papers for 3d sprite techniques as well as physics.
but since we are novices in opengl we are trying for a relatively simple technique.
if we can get that then we can go ahead…
any help here would be awesome…thnks 
Maybe you should not create the physics part yourself, but utilize one of the existing physics libraries like ODEJava or JOODE. If you have enough mathematical understanding to do physics, I think the JOODE team might be happy about a helping hand.
Thanks alot for the input.we’ll look into that.
We would also like material on sprites-does anyone know anything abut that particularly?
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