CMBR wrote

All .Jars are "only" in the same directory as my Main.class and I run the java commands as so

craigs-mbp:bin Craig$ java -cp gluegen-rt.jar:j3dcore.jar:j3dutils.jar:joal.jar:jogl-all.jar:vecmath.jar: Main -Djava.ext.dirs="" Main
JavaVM WARNING: JAWT_GetAWT must be called after loading a JVM
AWT not found
(-11, 2, -5)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: apple/awt/CGraphicsDevice
        at javax.media.j3d.GraphicsConfigTemplate3D.<clinit>(GraphicsConfigTemplate3D.java:55)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration(SimpleUniverse.java:368)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.Viewer.<init>(Viewer.java:348)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.Viewer.<init>(Viewer.java:298)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse.<init>(SimpleUniverse.java:215)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse.<init>(SimpleUniverse.java:177)
        at com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse.<init>(SimpleUniverse.java:88)
        at Main.main(Main.java:170)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
        ... 8 more

Really not seeing what i'm missing from your tutorial,

CMBR wrote

I appreciate your telling me that it simply won't run with Java3D 1.5 but I have only been using the jars from your tutorial and can't find any other jars which could be 1.5 anywhere, I also can't see the directories you talk about pointing to common places of 1.5.