B4A Library libGDX - Game Engine

Informatix · Dec 9, 2013

ananaiasa said:
Thank-You.
Just bought My Playground...
Very smooth

Thank you. You're my first buyer. Champaign !

LucaMs · Dec 9, 2013

I state that I never developed games but sometimes I took a look at these tools.

Although I am inexperienced, this seems like a great job.

I have a couple of questions optional, regarding your app "My Playground (Free)" (I hope that Erel not ask me to move them); it is really very pretty.

When you published the app? I can read but not update the date of the publication date.

The graphics: have you drawn everything? Use tools such as graphics tablets?

Although I will not get answers, congratulations for your great job!

Informatix · Dec 9, 2013

There's a thread here for My Playground.

sterlingy · Dec 10, 2013

In playing with the Pacdroid code, I tried to replace the maze map with a map of my own, but since you have properties embedded in the map and tileset, things aren't working out so well. However, just to see what would happen, I loaded your map assets into Tiled, doubled the height of the map, and filed in the blank area with tiles. This resulted in the map being scaled down so that it could fit the entire map in the viewport.

In other tests, I have been able to scale the tiled map, but I wasn't using Scn2D and Stage. If possible, how can I fill the width of the viewport with the width of the map, so I can move the viewport over the map to reveal different parts of the map?

I wasn't sure where this post should go. In this thread or the Pacdroid Tutorial thread. Seems like it could go in either.

Informatix · Dec 10, 2013

I got so sick that I'm just barely able to write this. Sorry but you'll have to do without me for a few days.

sterlingy · Dec 10, 2013

Okay, feel better.

LucaMs · Dec 10, 2013

get well soon ... not for you, we need you

sterlingy · Dec 11, 2013

Informatix said:
Yes, I had the same visual glitches sometimes while playing with the maps. I think it's due to roundings and I have no workaround for now (I didn't really investigate). Maybe it's worth to search through the libGDX forum. We're probably not the first to notice that.

Informatix,

I did ask on the libGDX forum, but no one had a clue, though one guy had experienced the same issue.

I did resolve my problem, however. My TileSet had each tile paced by one pixel. The gaps between the tiles were filled with black. With the Tiled Editor compensating for this, everything looked fine in the editor. I made a new TileSet, without gaps, and the problem has gone away. The "rounding" issue may still be present, but no one would be the wiser.

-Sterlingy

sterlingy · Dec 11, 2013

I'm making progress with this lib, but my code seems to want to crash periodically. Sometimes, it's when I exit. Sometimes when I try to run it after the install. In this case, it will almost always run fine when I launch it from my device's panel.

I get an IndexOutOfBoundsException error

B4X:

Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.DisableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    myMap.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
End Sub

The error occurs on the EnableBlending line.

What could cause this, as it doesn't happen all of the time?

I should point out that I compile and run in debug mode, and I think I read somewhere that the debugger has issues with libGDX.

Cheers,

Sterling

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:
I should point out that I compile and run in debug mode, and I think I read somewhere that the debugger has issues with libGDX.

Don't look further. The IndexOutOfBounds is typical of an issue with the debugger. You have to use only the Release mode.

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:
I did resolve my problem, however. My TileSet had each tile paced by one pixel. The gaps between the tiles were filled with black. With the Tiled Editor compensating for this, everything looked fine in the editor. I made a new TileSet, without gaps, and the problem has gone away.

Good news and good to know.

sterlingy · Dec 12, 2013

I hope you've recovered. I've been battling something all day with two stages, and actors/sprites not rendering on the back stage.

I have two stages. One has a tiled map and a bunch of sprites moving around. On top of that, I have a HUD stage, which has the score and other things.

I can see the tiled map, but the sprites aren't visible. If I don't draw the HUD stage, then I can see the sprites. No one on the libGDX board has a clue

The HUD is just some text in a table, so it is largely transparent as you will see below (guess whose tutorial I used as a base?

)

This code:

B4X:

Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.DisableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

Produced this image, when you can see the Map on the background stage. You can also see the Score and three remaining lives in the HUDStage

This code, where I do not draw the HUD stage, reveals the sprites, which are in a group and actors of the Maze Stage, along with the Map

B4X:

Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.DisableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending

End Sub

This code , where blending is on for everything, results in the HUD and nothing else

B4X:

Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:
In other tests, I have been able to scale the tiled map, but I wasn't using Scn2D and Stage. If possible, how can I fill the width of the viewport with the width of the map, so I can move the viewport over the map to reveal different parts of the map?

I'm not sure to understand your question. If you want to move the camera over the map to reveal different parts, then the map has to be larger than the viewport. Example with PacDroid: in Tiled, I resize the map width to 56 tiles (twice the former value) and I put new tiles in the empty space. In the clsMaze class, I divide MapWidth by 2. So now my app displays only the half of my map. If I translate the camera to the right, I can reveal the invisible part.

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:

B4X:

Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

There's something that annoys me in your code. Each stage has its own Spritebatch, but in your code, you use the same for the maze and the HUD. If you want to share the same batcher, use Stage.Initialize3 to set yourself the SpriteBatch.

sterlingy · Dec 12, 2013

The tiledMap scrolls just fine, as I change the position of the camera:

B4X:

Public Sub Draw(Camera As lgOrthographicCamera)
Camera.Position.y = Camera.Position.y + ScrollSpeed
    MapRenderer.SetCameraView(Camera)
    MapRenderer.renderTileLayer(CurrentLayer)
End Sub

The tiledMap is in a group with the actors/sprites, and are on the bottom stage. the HUD is on the top stage. This has the score and the remaining lives. In the top picture, seen two posts up, you will see the content of the HUD stage, on top of the map, on the bottom stage, but the actors and sprites don't render.

If I don't draw the HUD stage, then it renders all of the children of the bottom stage, not just the tiled map.

Does that make more sense?

-SterlingY

sterlingy · Dec 12, 2013

Informatix said:
There's something that annoys me in your code. Each stage has its own Spritebatch, but in your code, you use the same for the maze and the HUD. If you want to share the same batcher, use Stage.Initialize3 to set yourself the SpriteBatch.

So you suggest that I create a different SpriteBatch for each Stage, as the best solution?

I looked at stage.initialize3. I'm not sure what EvtPrefix is? If my SpriteBatch is called "GloriousBatchSprite", and the EvtPrefix is "notSo",
then to render this stage would be notSoGloriousSpriteBatch.Draw?

-SterlingY

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:
So you suggest that I create a different SpriteBatch for each Stage, as the best solution?

No, the contrary: use the same Spritebatch, but you have to share it explicitely because a call to Initialize will create a new one.
The current situation is that you created two SpriteBatchs but you try to use the same in your Draw event.
What I suggest is to create only one with Initialize and to pass the created SpriteBatch to the other stage with Initialize3.

sterlingy said:
I looked at stage.initialize3. I'm not sure what EvtPrefix is? If my SpriteBatch is called "GloriousBatchSprite", and the EvtPrefix is "notSo",
then to render this stage would be notSoGloriousSpriteBatch.Draw?

The event is Draw, so if the event prefix is "toto", the event handler should be named "toto_Draw".
In PacDroid, Main_Draw is the draw event of grpMain (declared with grpMain.Initialize("Main")).

sterlingy · Dec 12, 2013

So here's what I did

B4X:

    'Initializes the stage
    Stage.Initialize("")
    HUDStage.Initialize3(lGdx.Graphics.Width, lGdx.Graphics.Height, True, Stage.SpriteBatch, "HUD")
.
.
.
Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.DisableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
'    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

Sub HUD_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the HUD
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

All I get is the background stage with the map.

Sorry I'm such a pain. Just a few more hurdles, and I can focus on the visually creative stuff, which I know well.

Informatix · Dec 12, 2013

sterlingy said:

So here's what I did

B4X:

    'Initializes the stage
    Stage.Initialize("")
    HUDStage.Initialize3(lGdx.Graphics.Width, lGdx.Graphics.Height, True, Stage.SpriteBatch, "HUD")
.
.
.
Sub Main_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the maze
    SpriteBatch.DisableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    Maze.Draw(Stage.Camera)
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
'    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

Sub HUD_Draw(SpriteBatch As lgSpriteBatch, ParentAlpha As Float)
    'Draws the HUD
    SpriteBatch.EnableBlending
    SpriteBatch.SetColorRGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)
    HUDStage.Draw
End Sub

All I get is the background stage with the map.

Sorry I'm such a pain. Just a few more hurdles, and I can focus on the visually creative stuff, which I know well.

Do you call Draw for your HUD in the Render event?

And if you share the same SpriteBatch, what's the reason for two separate draw events?

sterlingy · Dec 12, 2013

I did not Draw the HUD in the Render Event. I was under the assumption I had to do it the same way I do it for Stage. Adding HUDStage.Draw to the Render event, and removing the HUD_Draw sub, gives me a blank screen.

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