AndEngine is a free Open Source 2D OpenGL Game Engine for the Android platform.
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How should I structure my classes to allow for multithreaded simulation?
In my game, there are plots of land with buildings (houses, resource centers). Buildings like houses have tenants, rooms, add-ons, et cetera, and there are several values that have to be simulated ...
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How do I make my rain effect look more like rain and less like snowfall?
I am making a game in that game I want a rain effect. I am little bit far from this right now. I am creating the rain effect like below:
particleSystem.addParticleInitializer(new ColorInitializer(1, ...
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Should I move the world or move the player?
I'm about to start developing a sidescrolling game where the players goal is to travel as far as he can in the horizontal axis before touching down. Note that I do not need to ever travel back on the ...
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How do I find the angle between two vectors?
I have 3 points on my screen:
a = a point which is (c.x, 0) makes a line pointing straight up
b = a user input touch, can be anywhere on the screen
c = a moving object
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How do I place a progress bar in andEngine?
I am developing game using andEngine. I need to place a progress bar in my game to denote time remaining in the game. Is there a built-in method for doing this in andEngine? My searches only turned up ...
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Smooth pixels while rotating sprite
I just started with andengine, so this maybe gonna be silly question.
How to make my sprites more smooth while I rotate them? Or maybe it because this is screenshot from tablet?
Thanks JohnEye it ...
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How to remove a box2d body when collision happens?
I’m still new to java and android programming and I am having so much trouble Removing an object when collision happens.
I looked around the web and found that I should never handle removing BOX2D ...
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Rotation angle based on touch move
I want to rotate my stick based on the movement of the touch on the screen. From my calculation I did not able to find correct angle in degree. So please provide guidance, my code snippet for that are ...
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Whats the physics behind the doodle jump game?
I'd like to know how we can achieve the doodle jump type physics using andengine.
I mean the character is not colliding with the ground blocks when he moves upwards but will collide when he came ...
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Does AndEngine have a way to manage scenes?
Does AndEngine have a way to manage scenes (for example, main splash, menu, options, main game), and should I use a different scene per activity?
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Remove gravity from single body
I have multiple bodies in my game world in andengine. All the bodies affected by gravity but in that I want my specific body does not affected by the gravity.
For that solution after research I found ...
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How can I save my game state so it can be resumed when my application resumes?
I've found that after resuming my game the whole engine is reloaded and application is reinitialized. I want to save engine state and in "onResume," resume the game process from where it left off.
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Box2d Collision problem
I'm not good with words so here's a picture to describe my problem:
In my game there is this big ball which the user can move on x-axis only. Now, if the ball is falling like the red one, it's ...
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Programmatically and efficiently create a graphical ripple effect?
I was developing tower of defence game for a long time.
It was about to complete but I have to create ripple effect for one of the weapon that I have used.
First question I want to ask is that is it ...
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Clock hand, how much should I rotate the hand by every frame?
I've got a virtual clock.
The clock consists of the actual clock sprite, and a hand to go over it.
I'm able to set how long the clock duration is.
Say I set it to: 5 seconds.
While the clock time is ...
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How can I change width of sprite Dynamically?
I want to change width of sprite dynamically but i can't perform it.!! Here i want to change only my white sprite i want to use these type of facility in my game in using AndEngine I want to display ...
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How do I support variable screen ratios using AndEngine?
When displaying a background, AndEngine produces black bars above the image on certain devices. How do I support variable screen ratios for different devices using AndEngine?
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AndEngine: Density, Elasticity, Friction, Gravity concepts
I am new to AndEngine. I have seen some physics examples from AndEngine Example package. I want to know the role of density, elasticity, friction and gravity while implementing physics. How they ...
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AndEngine Moving a Connected Texture and Physics Body
In AndEngine, many times we create a TextureRegion for our sprite. We can move this region around the scene but when I connect that region to a physics body I end up being able to use either one to ...
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AndEngine - Dragging a sprite that has a path modifier registered to it
I'm looking to be able to drag a sprite that is currently on a path from a path modifier. Currently, I have sprites on a path, and I have stationary sprites that are draggable. However, simply ...
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How to rotate a sprite using multi-touch with AndEngine?
I am new to Android game development. I am using AndEngine GLES-2. I have created a box with a sprite. This box is now draggable by using the code below. It works fine.
But I want multi-touch on ...
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Making color of sprite darker or lighter
Is there any way to make a sprite darker or lighter in AndEngine? I dont want to use the alpha thing. Nor I want to loose the texture/design of the image.
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How to load data for specific level at runtime?
I'm trying to create a game with many levels loaded from XML files. In my game I have many objects in each level.
At present my game contains 20 levels, and I load all the textures at once on ...
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How do I implement an AutoParallax Background in AndEngine GLES1?
I'm using AndEngine GLES1. In my game, I use AnalogOnScreenControl to move a sprite and when it moves vertically, the background image also moves vertically. I want to do something like this: that is ...
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Knob in DigitalOnScreenControl not moving. Why?
I have set up a DigitalOnScreenControl in my game but the knob does not move. The base and the knob are drawn on the screen but the latter doesn't move as per the AndEngine example here.
Here is a ...
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How to move a sprite automatically using a physicsHandler in Andengine?
I use a DigitalOnScreenControl (knob with a four-directional arrow control) to move the entity and the entity which is bound to a physicsHandler.
physicsHandler.setEntity(sprite);
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Implement 2x speed in tower of defense type game
I was currently developing tower of defense game and I want to implement 2x feature for my game. Game usually run with 1x speed that was normal speed of the game.
Here what 1x and 2x mean :
1x - ...
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Rotate Body From Corner
I want to ask that how to rotate body from corner?
movableBeam.getBeamBody().setTransform(movableBeam.getBeamBody().getPosition(), angle);
The above line of code rotate the beam from center that I ...
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Ragdoll continuous movement
I have created a ragdoll for my game but the problem I found was that the ragdoll joints are not perfectly implemented so they are continuously moving. Ragdoll does not stand at fix place. I here ...
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How can set vibration option with my game in android? [closed]
I am using AndEngine to develop an Android game and I want vibration to be triggered when an enemy hits a player.
How can I implement this into my game?
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Trying to run sample AndEngine gles2 code in the simulator throws “java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No EGLConfig found!”, how can I fix this?
I tried to run a small sample game code in the emulator but it crashed. My LogCat is given here. Can you help me resolve the issue.
02-23 15:18:50.543: D/AndEngine(636): MainActivity.onCreate ...
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Box2d debug render
How can I render the body and joints in the physics world? During research I found the class called Box2dDebugRenderer. But when I put it into use it was full of errors. I do not found some classed in ...
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Handle Multiple Scene
For my game, now I adopt the strategy to create multiple scene.
For this I have to ask two question please provide your view for my and other members for improvement.
I have created single ...
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How to make the game wait for an animation to finish?
I'm teaching myself andengine while trying to make a match-3 puzzle, so far I have a grid of gems that I populate and can move then around. Matching gems and new gems falling is working already. My ...
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Andengine. Put bullet to pool, when it leaves screen
i'm creating a bullet with physics body. Bullet class (extends Sprite class) has die() method, which unregister physics connector, hide sprite and put it in pool
public void die() {
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How create a respawn area in a tiled map
I'm creating a RPG game, I need to create a monster respawn area like the Pokemon games where if I walk through the long grass areas a Pokemon can appear. I already created the battle scene, I've seen ...
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How to Change default Mouse pointer on emulator in Android?
I want to change default mouse pointer in Android emulator. I want to change it for my game to use different type of cursor.I am using AndEngine for my game development. Is there nay way to change ...
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onSceneTouchEvent Triggering more than once on one click in Andengine
I am making a simple american football game, and I'm having an issue with the onSceneTouchEvent function, I have this code:
public boolean onSceneTouchEvent(final Scene pScene, final TouchEvent ...
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AndEngine sprite movement
I want to ask that I have a player in my game. I may walk. I have a image which has five different frames for walk and two frames for standing position. I want to ask that how can I change the images ...
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How do I set a touch listener in a child scene in AndEngine?
In my game, I want to implement touch listener for my child scene objects. Basically I tried all the possible way to implement this that I have usually done for my normal scenes, but those methods do ...
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Particle effect after the bullet
In my game, I fire a bullet from the gun along with that I generate a particle behind the bullet so that I look like fire effect after the bullet. But my problem is that the position I got from the ...
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Showing Parallax entity and AutoParallax entity on same scene in AndEngine
How do I create both a parallax background and an autoparallax background in the same scene using andengine?
The problem is, I want one entity to move at a constant speed regardless of the camera's ...
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Zoom In/Out Camera To Show Whole World
I am developing side scrolling game using AndEngine, and looking for additional camera control. I would like to view the whole level and then zoom/pan the camera to the left corner of the scene.
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Playing a sound only once during collisions
So recently i thought i figured out a solution for it, only to find out it doesnt work when i have more than one of the same object type added to the level.
What i was doing is iterating through my ...
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How to manage my model
I have in my model, a list of Classes : Player, NonPlayerCharacter, Monster, Item, NonMovableItem etc
With AndEngine I've a list of sprite for each piece of my model,
How can I manage the ...
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RagDoll in AndEngine
I want to create a RagDoll body in andEngine which can run and jump over different jumpObjects. Can any one give a nice tutorial on how to create RagDoll body and how to move it, like jump and ...
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Show path of a body of where it should go after linear impulse is applied
I am making a game with Andengine and Box2D. I have a dynamic body and I apply linear impulse on the body to move it around when the user have touched the screen.
Now I want to show the path where ...
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Horizontal wrapping with AndEngine
How would one implement the effect of a sprite disappearing on one side of the screen and appearing on the other using AndEngine? Like in Kid Icarus, seen here at around 1:22.
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AndEngine; Box2D - high speed body overlapping, prismatic joints
I'm trying to make good suspension for my car game, but I'm getting nervous of some problems with it.
At the beginning, I've tried to make it out of one prismatic joint/revolute joint per one wheel ...
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How do I eliminate black bar artifacts in AndEngine/TMX plugin?
I used AndEngine gles1 along with the tmx plugin to generate my background maps. The image width is not fit to my virtual device, so I increased the tmx image size. Here is my code for the camera ...
