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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 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 […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part We are going to look at networking for your LibGDX application. Networking in LibGDX is relatively primitive, supporting only socket communications. In many cases though, that’s more than enough. We are going to implement a very simple socket based chat application. The code is heavily commented, so […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part If you’ve never used Tiled read this first! In this tutorial part we are going to look at loading orthogonal maps in LibGDX. Orthogonal basically means “at a right angle to” which is a fancy way of saying the camera is looking straight at the scene. […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the prior tutorial we got a simple top down tile map working. Now we want to add some character to it, literally. Depending on your needs this can be laughably simple or somewhat complex. Let’s take a look at a basic example. This is building on […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In this part of the LibGDX tutorial series we are going to take a look at using GLSL shaders. GLSL standards for OpenGL Shader Language and since the move from a fixed to programmable graphics pipeline, Shader programming has become incredibly important. In fact, every single thing […]