Questions tagged [andengine]
AndEngine is a free Open Source 2D OpenGL Game Engine for the Android platform.
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How to rotate an image around its own center in AndEngine?
I'm beginner in Android programming with Andengine framework. And my question:
How to rotate an image around its own center in AndEngine?
I use Body and AnimatedSprite.
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This is my code:
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Player doesn't jumps in Box2D implementation [closed]
Well, i'm trying to learn andEngine. I was able to successfully implement the move functionality for the player. Now, i'm trying to make the player jump using Box2D. I referred few online tutorials to ...
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How do I create a Fixture in Andengine and assign it user data?
I´m following this tutorial: How do I use a JBox2D ContactListener to check if my character is standing on the ground? in order to get input from player's bottom part including a fixture in player's ...
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Concurrent touches not being detected
I have pretty much the same controls on the race example of the engine. A AnalogOnScreenControl and a button defined by a Sprite....
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AndEngine Foreground Sprite
I'm developing an Android game and have some troubles: I want to add some foreground sprites, that must obstruct my player.
Se the following example: Its a screenshot from "Shinobi 3". We ...
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Android AndEngine creating a body behind the sprite exactly
I am using AndEngine for Android. I created a body, but it is not behind the sprite as I wanted.
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How do I make a scrolling background out of a sequence of images?
I am new to AndEngine and trying to code a basic sidescroller game using the ParallaxLayer class from this example. (I followed the example and it works.)
How ...
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2d platform game with zoom in and out
I am using AndEngine, and I wish to create a 2d platform game like worms, where I can zoom out to see the whole world and zoom into single character, so I can select it.
I do not want to use the zoom ...
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How to create glowing line with andengine?
today I have played this game and still wondering about this effect: when I touch the target, some lines will appear (as those yellow lines in the image). How could I create this effect in andengine. ...
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Andengine Rotate Wheel with fast acceleration
I have a Wheel sprite and i am rotating it using Physics RevoluteJointDef. Its rotating.
But problem is how i can make wheel to start moving fast. It took the speed after sometime like real.
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Andengine Box2D Physics "disappearing"?
I have problems with my PhysicsWorld in Andengine GLES20. Sometimes when i first load my app and level there is no velocity added to my bodies. they also rotate slower as it seems. This also happens ...
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How do I implement swipe-to-throw in Andengine?
I have a ball sprite and I apply physics to it when the user swipes on it. I'd like the ball to start moving in the direction of the swipe.
How can I do this?
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Andengine reducing sprite quality?
I have a problem with bandings using andengine. When painting a picture on PC and uploading it to my phone, they look exactly the same. But as soon as I use that bitmap (PNG) in Andengine, I have ...
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Box2D setGravity() in Andengine?
Im currently using the Andengine GLES20 branch. I know that the new Box2D method setGravity() isn't implemented yet.
Has anyone managed yet to get it to work with Andengine or to write a method ...
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AndEngine - Smooth scaling on a sprite
I'm trying to implement a pinch zoom on a sprite. I would like to get an effect like the SmoothCamera, but on a single sprite. I've managed to pinch zoom on the sprite by changing its scale, but the ...
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How to set a body to a specific position using Andengine
I'm developing a game with a single player and multiplayer mode. Lets say I have walls (static bodies), vehicles (dynamic bodies) and bullets (dynamic bodies).
It works fine to control my own vehicle ...
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AndEngine Font Issue
I am learning AndEngine. I am displaying Hello world using this code:
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What is difference between AndEngine's three Cameras
I am new to game development. After observing some AndEngine code snippets, I am trying to figure out which camera would be best suitable for my 2D game. Either it's BoundCamera, SmoothCamera or ...
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Pipe connection game algorithm - Java/Andengine
I am creating a game based on Pipe Dream/Pipe Mania using java/andengine for android. I have a square grid of tiles each representing a type of pipe. The player needs to swap tiles to connect the ...
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How do I draw a sprite on top of a video in Andengine?
I'm playing a video in Andengine on
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protected void onSetContentView() {}
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Duration in ScaleModifier andengine
I want to scale an image before screen resume in AndEngine so I have applied the following code to my sprite:
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How should I generate the board for a match-3-style game?
I am trying to create a "match 3" game. I'm stuck figuring out a good algorithm to fill up the game board.
My game's board is 8x8.
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A few things:
The board should always be solvable. for ...
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Max Row and Col for Animating Sprite in Andengine
I want to animate a Sprite in Andengine , I have used the following
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How to move a Entity without moving its children in AndEngine?
I have a Entity in AndEngine and when I move it, all child move together with it. Which is great. But, sometimes, I need to move it without moving its children. Is it even possible? And, if it is, how ...
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AndEngine: Painting on a canvas rather than composing image from objects
I'm trying to implement drawing a line with a finger, similar to a Pencil tool in image editors. From what I've found on AndEngine, it seems like the recommended approach would be to create a line ...
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How to make Box2D bodies automatically return to a initial rotation
I have two long Box2D bodies, that can collide while moving one of them around with MouseJoint. I want them to try to hold their position and rotation.
Blue body is moved using MouseJoint (yellow) ...
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How do I make a Box2D object that makes objects passing through it slower?
I wish to have a sort of "slow motion" or "slow down" effect on a players character when they walk in a mud area, usually the character velocity is 3f constant in ...
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Making a 2D TMX tile map
Should there be a specific link between the characters height as well as the tile size for the tile maps? That is if a tile is 32x32 does that mean that a character sprite has to be the same size? ...
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Drawing Text on a scene
I am not sure if I am missing something but I was thinking about how text entities are drawn on a scene, are they drawn with an offset depending on the length of the text? I notice that when I add a ...
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Getting body position
I am using BodyA.getPosition().x and BodyA.getPosition().y to get the x and ...
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AndEngine Scoreloop - java.lang.IllegalStateException: you are not calling from the main thread context
I am a very novice android developer but also created a game using andEngine successfully. Now I want to integrate Scoreloop and everything is fine with Leaderboard view and TOS view, except I am ...
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Version number not supported by gl2 in andengine
I am new to andengine. From various forums, i got to know that my system should support hardware virtulisation. I have installed "Intel X86" and my system didn't throw any problem regarding "HAX" now. ...
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ANDEngine : 3d rotation in Particle System
Im using ANDEngine and wants to create confetti particle system.
But im unable to make flipping and rotation of confetti particle around z-axis
Since andengine is 2d engine, it doesnot support that. ...
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Button - change texture after click
I need to make a button with texture. After button is pressed I want to change texture of button permanently.
For example on/of sound button.
I tried this but it changes image only while I hold button....
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AndEngine- OnAreaTouched
In my AndEngine-based game there are a few sprites on the scene. One sprite acts as a surface and the rest of them are placed on top of this surface. I want to take unique actions whenever any of the ...
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How do I pause Andengine, but still get input?
In my game when I pause the game, I'd like to display three options (Resume, Restart and Menu) so I did this after calling mEngine.stop():
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ParallaxBackground doesn't work well with sprite scaled
I'm trying to set a ParallaxBackground for my AndEngine's game. So I did this:
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How can I use ParallaxBackground in AndEngine?
I'm new to game development with AndEngine. I want to add ParallaxBackground but I don't know how to change the background when the player moves. I'm using arrows for moving a player.
Now my ...
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Smooth Camera Zoom Factor Change
I have game play scene in which user can zoom in and out. For which I used smooth camera in the following manner.
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Box2D body jitters when colliding with static body
I am developing a game where a body is moved within the scene using touch. The scene has a boundary wall made up of static rectangular bodies. When I move the object along the boundaries, on collision,...
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GLES2-AnchorCenter branch has no org.andengine.util.color.Color
I am porting my game from GLES2 to GLES2-AnchorCenter branch. I am using
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Word Search Game Issue
I am developing a game like word search. I have used AndEngine for this and for displayig grid of words I have used TiledMap. In this game, we need to join letters to make a word as we drag our ...
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Convert int to Color
I am right now developing paint application in andengine because some features are only possible with andengine.
For this I have used color dialog box to use user selected color but that dialog box ...
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Reloading Resources on Resume
I'm having a problem with my game. If I press the "Home button" the game is paused... everythings fine, but if I then go back to the game all the resources are reloaded before I can continue the game. ...
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How to make the Angry Birds "shot arch" dotted line? [duplicate]
I am making a game that includes 2D projectile flight paths like that of Angry Birds. Angry Birds employs the notion that a previous shot is shown with a dotted line "arch" showing the player where ...
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Black borders in Andengine
I am using Andengine and when I start the examples there are black borders on left and right of the screen. Like this:
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Continuous increase in heap memory in Android game [closed]
For my Android AndEngine game, I used the scene based approach. Game contains more graphics so I need to load and unload those graphics multiple time so that game runs smoothly.
But doing this, I ...
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Font disappear after reloading
As this post title suggest, font of the scene become disappear when same scene call more than two time.
Following code I used for creating font.
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"Non-additive" alpha blending in OpenGL ES 2.0, Android (AndEngine)
I have several monochromatic sprites and I render them with alpha = 0.25 (all of them the same value). I want to "paint" with them, so when they overlap, the alpha won't be added. I am not sure if I ...
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Creating big scene and little size chasing camera
I would like to create a climb based game, so I need to have a big scene and a camera that cover only a little part of it and chase my player. This image explains easier what I want:
How can I do it? ...