## About jMonkeyEngine SDK

The jMonkeyEngine SDK (or "jMonkeyPlatform") is a game development environment for jMonkeyEngine 3.

The jMonkeyEngine SDK is based on the NetBeans Platform so you automatically have access to all of the developer tools of the NetBeans IDE to create, compile and deploy Java applications. On top of that, the jMonkeyEngine SDK provides you with specialized plugins for creating jMonkeyEngine 3 game content.

## Documentation

This help contains info about most of the functions of the jMonkeyEngine SDK, take a look at the "Introduction" section of the help to get started with creating projects. The sections on model and material handling will give you information on how you can manage and edit your game assets. Finally theres information about how jMonkeyPlatform helps you edit your code and deploy your application to multiple platforms.

## Getting started

If you are completely new to jMonkeyEngine we suggest you go through the jMonkeyEngine3 tutorials first, they will give you an idea on how jMonkeyEngine works and contain lots of little good-to-knows that will help you getting your Application up and running in no time.

To see some code examples of jMonkeyEngine3 functions, press the "New Project" button and create a new "JME3Tests" project. To start coding, create a new "BasicGame" project.

Have fun coding!