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Re: Game Development Contest in Uruguay

arielsan — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:57:24 -0000

Glad you like the articles.

Re: Game Development Contest in Uruguay

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Re: Using Inkscape as Scene Editor

Nomadster — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:59:01 -0000

Why don't you just save it as "Pure XML"? I think Inkscape have such a thing and your XML will be less complex than now.

Re: Building 2d sprites from 3d models using Blender

arielsan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:14:45 -0000

Thanks for the advice!

Re: Building 2d sprites from 3d models using Blender

Charles HETIER — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:00:59 -0000

nice post!
I just would like to emit a remark on antialiasing: if you wish to have a transparent background sprite, sou would be better to deactivate antialising and reduce the size of the image (by 2 or 4 for example): this way you will not have any artifact of the blender background around the border of the sprite.
Actualy, render an image and reducing the size is the better antialising (also the less performant...)

See you!

Re: Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

Moustafa — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:11:42 -0000

Just got it to work! Thanks so much for the help. Can't believe no one ever thought of this.

Re: Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

arielsan — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:56:15 -0000

If I don't remember wrong, you can create a RemoteInput(port) and use that instance directly without having to set it to Gdx.input since it runs on its own thread (I don't know if it is synchronized). So, you can create two instances and use them to control each player. This pastebin is a really basic pseudo code.

Re: Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

Moustafa — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:39:24 -0000

You think I would be able to do that without changing the LibGDX source code?

I mean, would you mind giving me a bit more detail on how I might implement this code wise? Gdx.input can only be set to a single RemoteInput correct?

Re: Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

arielsan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:54:03 -0000

If I understood the problem, one option could be creating different RemoteInput using different ports and set them to each game controller in your desktop application, then in each android device you start LibGDX remote and you configure it for each port.

Re: Testing Android controls on libGDX PC application using libGDX remote

Moustafa — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:48:21 -0000

Thanks for the link. The Gdx remote has been a life saver. How would you implement something like two devices running the same Desktop game? I might end up doing that for a small project of mine.

Re: Building 2d animations using Inkscape and Synfig

arielsan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:55:16 -0000

Inkscape is tons of times better than Synfig in terms of usability, mainly when you are designing your game objects/characters/etc. Also, I prefer having all our characters/objects base design in an open format, easy to use between multiple applications. That was the reason for sharing how to move models from Inkscape to Synfig, but I agree with you that it wasn't really needed for the process.

Re: Building 2d animations using Inkscape and Synfig

Ab — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:17:42 -0000

It looks like there was no point using Inkscape here - you had to throw away the Inkscape second frame, and re-do all the vector stuff in Synfig?

Re: Area triggers using Box2D, Artemis and SVG paths

Peter — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:11:34 -0000

Dear Gemserk-Team,

Thanks for this post, which offers me a new technique to "wake up" my game objects!

At the moment I have defined three "wake ups" for the game objects in my jumper game: Immeditaley, after collision and before N screens.

My thought is to replace "before N screens" with the area trigger. But for this I have to look for a simple solution in the user leveleditor - shouldn't get too much complicated ;)

Greets,
Peter (@pejolaGames)

Re: LD#48 – 20 – Codename: Taken

Isaiah — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:13:45 -0000

cool!

Re: Implementing transitions between screens

Ziggy — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:42:37 -0000

OK, thanks. I updated last night and saw some changes, but no conflicts. I'm also trying to use GL20, and I've updated the transition classes to use the libgdx ShapeRenderer. I don't know any OpenGL, so I didn't know how to create and color a mesh with 2.0. That's where I was afraid I might get conflicts, but it seemed to merge OK.

Re: Implementing transitions between screens

arielsan — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:29:05 -0000

Don't know when you updated the code for the last time, so yeah, you will probably see some changes, maybe in stuff you don't use at all.

About these new classes, they are a bit experimental and I am using them for our current game but there is no need to change to use them unless you want this custom transition effects feature (which could be implemented over the previous classes too, they weren't removed from commons-gdx). As all this stuff is experimental, I recommend you to stay with the older classes, at least for now.

Re: Implementing transitions between screens

Ziggy — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:52:31 -0000

The class names look a little different from what I remember. Will I see some changes the next time I update my code?

Re: Simplifying building bodies and joints with libGDX Box2D

arielsan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:53:50 -0000

Hi, I am not totally sure if you don't know how restitution works in Box2d or in our builder. For the first case, the box2d manual explains it very well.

Re: Simplifying building bodies and joints with libGDX Box2D

Becske — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:08:57 -0000

Hi, great work.
Can't see how works the restitution.

Re: Our participation in Global Game Jam 2012 Uruguay

arielsan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:39:23 -0000

The link is fixed now, thanks for telling us, and glad you like the game.

Re: Our participation in Global Game Jam 2012 Uruguay

Roger — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:14:56 -0000

Good game with original ideas for 48 hours. Keep up with the good work.

PS: the link to the other games didn't work for me

Re: Our participation in Global Game Jam 2012 Uruguay

Gaston095 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:45:13 -0000

Vengo a figurar

Re: Simplifying building bodies and joints with libGDX Box2D

Mark Dunne — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:05 -0000

Hey thanks man, I've just started learning Box2D and this speeded things up a bit.

Re: Detecting collisions using libGDX Pixmap

Idnan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:22:30 -0000

great effort. Pls upload the source code of this tutorial.

Re: JNLP Downloader Tool

xx — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:24:43 -0000

can not handle version-atrtributes!