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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Today we are going to look at adding game pad support into LibGDX, specifically the XBox 360 controller. Why the Xbox 360 controller? Well, it’s the controller that I ( and 90% of other PC gamers it seems ) own. You should be able to modify […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous tutorial we looked at handling touch and gesture events. These days, most mobile devices have very accurate motion detection capabilities, which LibGDX fully supports. In this example we will look at how to handle motion as well as detect if a device supports certain […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part So far we’ve covered creating a simple simulation then how to create physics bodies and apply forces to them now we look at dealing with collisions. Truth of the matter is, most of the work is just done for us. Let’s just right in with an example, […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Remember in our earlier example where we used a ContactListener to check for a collision between two types of FixtureDef and how ungainly the check was? Remember when I said there was a much better way of doing this? Well, welcome the the better way, Filters. […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part This section is going to be rather small because, well frankly, LibGDX makes audio incredibly easy. Unlike previous tutorials, this one is going to contain a number of snippets. LibGDX supports 3 audio formats: ogg, mp3 and wav. MP3 is a format that is mired in legal […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In this section we are going to take a look at the Scene2D library. The first thing you need to be aware of is scene2d is entirely optional! If you don’t want to use it, don’t. All the other parts, except the bits built over Scene2D, will […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the second part of the LibGDX Scene2D tutorial we will now look at Actions. Actions are a convenient ( and completely optional! ) way to get your game’s Actors to “do stuff”. Let’s jump straight in to an example: package com.gamefromscratch; import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationListener; import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx; […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Back in Tutorial 3 I created a simple animation using a Timer and setting the frame manually from a TextureAtlas. This is not the ideal way to perform animation using LibGDX and was done to illustrate how to use a TextureAtlas, not how to perform animation. Instead […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part So far we’ve look at what Scene2D provides in terms of Actors, Actions as well as handling input, now we will look at some of the scene management functionality it provides. One of the very powerful capabilities of Scene2D is grouping. Let’s jump right in with an […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One of the nicest features of Scene2D is the UI layer built over top of it. Scene2D.ui provides a series of widgets that make creating a UI an breeze, something often lacking in game development libraries. That said, there is one very confusing stumbling block before you […]