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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 […]
LibGDX Tutorial 11: Tiled Maps Part 2: Adding a sprite and dealing with layers Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part This is the part people always find the most fun, the actual act of putting graphics up on screen. Let’s start with about the simplest project that we can. We are going to display this sprite (created in this tutorial): On screen. One important thing […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3: Basic graphics Read More
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 […]
LibGDX Tutorial Part 12: Using GLSL Shaders (and creating a Mesh) Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In this part we are going to look at how you handle mouse and keyboard input in LibGDX. There are two ways to go about handling input, by polling for it ( as in… “Has anything happened yet? No, ok… What about now? No, ok… Now? Yes! […]
LibGDX Tutorial 4: Handling Input — The mouse and keyboard Read More
Or… How to take a Blender model you downloaded from the web and make it actually usable in your game in 28 easy steps! … granted, the second title doesn’t have the same flow to it, does it? I just had to run through this process and I figured I would share […]
Baking Blender materials to texture to make them usable in a game engine Read More
Let me start off by saying that exporting from Blender is always a pain in the ass. This experience didn’t prove to be an exception. I will describe the process in some detail. First and foremost, Blender 2.69 DIDNT work. At least not for me, not matter what I did, Blender 2.69 would […]
3D models and animation from Blender to LibGDX Read More
LibGDX Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com LibGDX tutorial series. Select a link below to expand and view the video. Each video is available in 1080p resolution on YouTube. Where applicable, there will also be a post to a page with full source examples for each tutorial. If you prefer text based tutorials to video, […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial Series Read More
The following is an ongoing series on working with the exceptional library, LibGDX. LibGDX is a cross platform Java based game development library that handles almost all facets of game development. These tutorials assume you have some prior experience with Java and Eclipse and each part assumes you have read the prior parts. […]
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