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1	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-15 00:46:00
I got the font coloring to work. It was a really dumb error made by me that I didn't see until now. I placed the new font files in the wrong folder so I kept using the same ones..

2	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 23:52:41
Quote from: Vladiedoo on 2012-10-14 23:39:14 This is really off-topic but jhallenberg you were using Slick2D a week or two ago, what made you switch over to LibGDX? The reason I'm asking is because I'm working on a Slick2D game but I've learned that LibGDX is a superior engine. I'm not sure if I should finish my game in Slick2D or switch over to LibGDX first, what did you experience with the two engines? Thanks in advance in you have time to reply. I switched due to libGDX having built in box2d mainly, I didn't get very far into using slick2d either so it wasn't a big deal.

3	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 21:38:36
I've tried fonts created with "Hiero" and "BMFont", both look/behave the same.

4	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 15:48:58
Tried changing the batch color to something else, no change. Tried changing batch color to white and font color to something else and no change.

5	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 15:25:13
That doesn't seem to work. The characters in the font.png are all white, but they always display as black ingame.

6	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 04:55:56
Thanks, davedes. Another question I have: Is it possible to change the text/font color without changing the file itself?

Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: BitmapFont in libGDX problem

on: 2012-10-14 01:58:22

I open the font in the image viewer and the background is transparent.
Here's the loading/declaration

1	BitmapFont font = new BitmapFont(Gdx.files.internal("data/font.fnt"), false);

And the rendering code

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batch.begin();
      
font.draw(batch, "blabla", 10, 10);
stage.draw();
      
batch.end();

8	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / BitmapFont in libGDX problem	on: 2012-10-14 01:12:08
When I try to draw a string in libGDX using a BitmapFont I only get filled boxes instead of characters, with the specified font color. I haven't found any information googling so I'm asking here.

9	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / A quick question about Slick2D "Scale"	on: 2012-10-04 22:31:33
Hello, that Graphics class used in Slick2D has a setScale function and what I'm wondering is if using that to scale things is better than just defining a rectangle to draw within yourself?

10	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: Need help with 2d camera	on: 2012-10-02 05:41:38
I'm going to have to try that. I have another question on a similar/related topic to this. Is the scaling of the whole graphics context increasing performance or would it be faster to "scale" it yourself by adding a draw width/height variable to the render functions? If it makes no difference I'll just make a modified TiledMap/Layer/TileSet class for my needs.

11	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: Need help with 2d camera	on: 2012-10-01 23:41:49
The method I have in my code would work if the map was drawn with the original size. In Slick2D however, to "zoom" a TiledMap you have to set the scale of the entire graphics object, it's not possible to just supply the desired width/height to be drawn in. In turn this scaling puts the clamp calculation wrong, even if you do for example "clampvalue * scale".

Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Need help with 2d camera

on: 2012-09-30 12:49:13

Hello, I'm trying to make the camera clamp so it doesn't go outside the tiled map, although the scaling of the map rendering is interfering and I'm not sure what else to try.

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    public void render(GameContainer gc, Graphics grphcs) throws SlickException {
        grphcs.scale(scale, scale);
        map.render((int) -camera.x, (int) -camera.y, 0); 
    }

Portion of the update code to clamp the camera

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        float w = ((map.getTileWidth()) * map.getWidth());
        
        if (camera.x > w) {
            camera.set(w, camera.y);
        }

I'm using Slick2D if that has any relevance. Thanks for reading.

13	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: What "technique" is Notch using?	on: 2012-09-27 11:25:30
Yeah that makes sense, I guess it's nothing to go for if you're not going to be using a lot of the same textures.

14	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: What "technique" is Notch using?	on: 2012-09-27 11:20:42
I think that sounds pretty interesting. Is it performance efficient or just to skip colouring the textures?

15	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: What "technique" is Notch using?	on: 2012-09-27 11:15:35
Okay. The game he was developing when I was watching was "MiniCraft" I believe.

16	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / What "technique" is Notch using?	on: 2012-09-27 11:08:07
When I was watching Notch develop a game for a competition, I noticed that his textures/sprites are all gray on file, but in-game they are coloured? I've been trying to figure out what that technique is called. Could someone tell me if they know? Thanks.

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