LibGDX

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   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 […]