My iOS game contains many tiles, and each of the tiles are animated. I have about 30 animated tiles. Now my question is: can i create dragon bones for each animation and store them in a starling sprite sheet?
Yes you can, I haven't done it but from what I understand (from this conversation)[http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/getting-all-assets-together-in-one-atlas#post-19274], one can edit a DragonBones atlas and add his own assets as well. Then use it as he would normally use his own Atlas.
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In my game I have some gold that the player can collect. My problem is I want to individually refernce textures of gold so i can take that particular instance of gold off the screen (player picked it up). How would I go about doing this as i am pretty sure you cannot do this with regular textures. Would i have to create a shape and fill it with the gold texture so I can delete that particualr gold piece? Thanks
I think you confuse Texture (which is basically a loaded image that you can draw) with game entities. Depending on how you implement your game, you can spawn multiple bodies (Box2D), actors (Scene2D) or your simple data containers (width, height, x, y) representing each coin and draw each one on the screen using the same texture. Actually, that's the preferred way to handle assets: you load images once and then simply reuse them for each sprite.
I suggest looking into the following classes:
Sprite (makes it easier to draw textures).
Image (allows to display simple images on Scene2D stage).
Box2DSprite (third party utility class that makes it easier to draw Box2D worlds).
I'm currently building a platformer in cocos2d-x and therefore i'm using a tmxtiledmap and chipmunk physics. My problem is that in the moment EACH tile of the map gets its own physics body which obviously isnt really memory saving:D
Is there any method to "recognize" that multiple tiles are next to each other and therefore only need one physics body?
Greets FreezZl
How are you creating the physics bodies?I dont use chipmunk, but had used box2d with Tiled and created a single Physics body for each platform by assigning an object to the whole platform in tiled and using that to create the physics body.
Hello amazing Stack Overflow members
I need some help :(
I've drawn 3 shapes to the stage using the rectangle tool. (Flash CS6).
WITHOUT making these movie clips or naming them,
How do I move them individually!?
Cheers and love your work.
Put them on separate layers, then use Shape Tweens.
I'm a beginner to AS3 and programming in general, but have learned enough that I want to now start learning how to render animations on the screen. These are the methods that I know of from two days of "researching" on google.
I'm not in a situation where I could afford to take courses from an educational institution, so my only means of learning are through online sources.
Update an objects x or y positions in a loop on every frame. Very basic. Of course any kind of advanced animation (say, showing a character running) is not possible with this method alone.
Using Flash and creating animation on a movie clip's timeline and, combined with moving the position of the object we can achieve some proper animation this way. However I cannot afford Flash, so this is not an option available to me. It also doesn't seem to be a popular option among more experienced programmers either (I think, due to having poor performance when lots of objects animating on the screen?)
Using a sprite sheet and then blitting the relevant image from the sprite sheet onto the screen.
Is there any other way to put an image from a sprite sheet onto the screen other than blitting?
And what other methods of rendering animation are available?
Some online websites claim that blitting is all I'll ever need, but I want to know all the options available so I could choose the most appropriate one for any given situation.
Any help would be appreciated :)
Another option for blitting is Stage3D. Take a look at Starling for 2D animations.
Blitting would be my best opinion. The only other thing I can think of is manually taking the images from the sprite sheet and putting it into each frame of an animation.
To render animation, you can create a frame in a MovieClip and convert it into a MovieClip and name the frame 'running'. Then you need to create an Enter Frame event where the MovieClip's instance name is 'Guy' and in the code on the function write 'Guy.x += 5;' to make your MovieClip go 5 pixels to the right every frame and also in the function write "Guy.gotoAndStop('running');"
Use TweenMax engine for better animation purposes. Easy coding, more Animation!!
I am currently working on a website for a construction company and I am trying to build a very simple flash intro. I have two images in the falsh intro: a tractor and a picture of clouds in the background.
I am trying to have the clouds appear to float by in the background. It is a very wide image that I am trying to loop through very slowly. It looks pretty cool :) IMO.
For tweening, I have always used TweenLite. The problem I am having is that while the image is moving, it 'blips' and looks pretty choppy. I have adjusted fps and about every other thing I can think of. The only thing that fixes it is when I use Hardware Acceleration (Level 2 - GPU). But this creates all sorts of problems for the HTML page.
My Question Is:
I am just a terrible coder, or would I be better off using Tweener (or something of the sort) or using the native tween engine in flash cs4? Any advice would be great!
Try these:
If the image is in your Library, make sure "Allow smoothing" is checked in your Bitmap Properties (select the image in the Library and go to "Properties" in the Library menu).
Or, if you are loading the bitmap dynamically and using the BitmapData class, make sure you've set the "smoothing" property to "true" on your BitmapData.