The Slick2D graphic engine and utility collection is meant to make the development of games using LWJGL easier.
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Slick game adding enemies towards the player [closed]
I'm beginner in java games, and this is my first time using Slick!
I followed the thenewboston tutorials to code my game.
My game is about a princess lost in a maze, on her way she finds bugs coming ...
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How can I find the pixel color of a given position in a SlickUtils Texture?
I'm making a mini-map system for my tile based game, and I thought the best way to accomplish this would be the following: at the beginning of the game, I calculate the predominant color of every ...
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Dynamic “Light Level” System based on alpha levels
My team and I have been working on a game in Java using the Slick2D engine and there are a few things I have questions on. As of right now, the code that I've written basically takes a cosine function ...
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How do I undo changing the color of an image in Slick2d?
This code colors the enemy red:
enemies.get(i).image.setColor(0,1,0,0,1);
enemies.get(i).image.setColor(1,1,0,0,1);
enemies.get(i).image.setColor(2,1,0,0,1);
enemies.get(i).image.setColor(3,1,0,0,1);
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Why does Slick import Tiled object rectangles without width, height, and name tags?
I tried using Tiled rectangle objects as walls with Slick's TiledMapPlus class, but as I soon realized that each GroupObject would return 0 for width and height. The code I used looks like this:
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Inputting Only Alphabetical Input - Slick2D
I'm trying to obtain the user input for when they enter their own name. However I would prefer to have it Alphabetically.
This is what I'm doing at the moment:
if (input.isKeyDown(Input.KEY_A)) ...
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How do I pass textures into a fragment shader in Slick?
I've written a shader that uses three different textures, tex0, tex1, and tex2. I can load it into Slick and successfully display it, but I can't figure out how to set the three different textures. ...
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Limiting a player's movement to the screen's dimensions
I have a player, that I can control using WASD. And I don't want him to leave the screen.
So I've tried the following:
if (player1.getX()+5 < 974 && player1.getX()-5 > 0) {
...
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Slick 2D jar creation
I recently finished making my game using Slick2D, and now I'm trying to create a jar file to play the game. I looked on the Slick forums, and saw that JarSplice was the recommended program. So I used ...
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Images not rendering in Slick
I have built a game that uses the Slick framework. The maps are tmx files and were built using TileD. The game iterates through a list of players and maps - once a game with a player and map is ...
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Should each Entity have its own update and render methods?
First, the questions:
Should each Entity (which are classes like Character, Tree, Enemy) have its own update() and render() methods?
If that's the case, then should I use Interfaces like ...
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Issues playing audio with Slick 2D [closed]
Started trying to learn Slick 2D a few days ago and have enjoyed it so far. The only problem is I can't seem to be able to get audio to play. I have tried going through the documentation examples, ...
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Why are only some of my objects being rendered?
Every time I create a new asteroid the previous one is no longer rendered?
I did some debugging and printed out the size of Array-List 'Small' and when a new asteroid is created it doesn't go down, ...
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Putting a Java/Slick game on your website?
I've made a simple little 2D game in Java using Slick and I want to embed it in my website. I'm just a little confused as to how to go about it, I'm guessing I need to export it as a WAR file?
Sorry ...
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How do I separate codes with classes? [closed]
I have this main class:
package javagame;
import org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer;
import org.newdawn.slick.Graphics;
import org.newdawn.slick.SlickException;
import ...
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How do I convert mouse co-ordinates in Slick2d java? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Java Slick2d - How to translate mouse coordinates to world coordinates
I'm really new in Java and I really want to how do I convert the mouse clicks to co-ordinates in ...
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How can I set the rotation of a shape to the same as my image?
The way you set rotations of images is different from setting shape rotations.
So how can I make the shape have the same rotation as my image?
This is how my image rotates:
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Fixing a collision detection bug in Slick2D
My game has a bug with collision detection.
If you go against the wall and tap forward/back sometimes the game thinks the speed you travelled at is 0 and the game doesn't know how to get you out of ...
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How to decide face side of sprite
I am just starting game-dev with slick2D and marte engine. When I move my sprite left and right, I am doing walk animation but when the key is released how can I decide in which side the sprite face ...
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How do you set the movement speed of a sprite?
I'm using Slick 2D/Java to play around with graphics. Getting an image to move is easy:
Input input = gc.getInput();
if(input.isKeyDown(sprite.up)){
sprite.y--;
}else if ...
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Can a high FPS negatively affect how a program runs?
Yeah I know this is a broad question and will get down rated, I'm just hoping for some answer before it gets closed.
Anyway, I'm using Slick 2D/Java to play around with graphics. I'm having some ...
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Rotate an image in a scaled context
Here is my working piece of code to rotate an image toward a point (in my case, the mouse cursor).
float dx = newx - ploc.x;
float dy = newy - ploc.y;
float angle = (float) ...
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Help, i cant reference my vars! [closed]
I have a sub-class(let's call it sub) and it contains all the function of an object in my game. In my main class(Let's call it main), i connect my sub to main. (Example sub
Code:
s = new sub();
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How to reference or connect a variable to another class without stack overflow? [closed]
I really need to re-arrange all my functions. I created a class. All my var, booleans, int, doubles and other things. I created every new variable so they can reference it and so they don't have an ...
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Is it the class that slows down the game? [closed]
My framerate lastime exceeds 1000 now the highest is 15. I have thousands lines of code in one class(I was still fresh last time and did not think of putting it in another class) Is it the class that ...
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Why does my text is shown below an image? [closed]
My text is below an Image but my other text is above the image. I can't find out why. It just have an if statement.
if(renderText==false)
{
g.drawString("heelo", 300, 600);
}
Even ...
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How do I make time?
I wanted to output a text for a certain amount of time. One way is to use threads. Are there any other ways? I can't use threads for slick2d. This is my code when I use threads for slick:
package ...
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MarteEngine Tile Collision [closed]
I need to add collision to my tile map using MarteEngine. MarteEngine is built of of slick2D. Here's my tile generation code:
Code:
public void render(GameContainer gc, StateBasedGame game, Graphics ...
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How to remove the FPS text on slick2d?
How do I remove the frame rate text on the upper left corner?
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Java 2D Tile Collision
I have been working on a way to do collision detection forever, and just can't figure it out. Here's my simple 2D array:
for (int x = 0; x < 16; x++) {
for (int y = 0; y < 16; y++) {
...
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How to I get a rotated sprite to move left or right?
Using Java/Slick 2D, I'm using the mouse to rotate a sprite on the screen and the directional keys (in this case, WASD) to move the spite. Forwards and backwards is easy, just position += ...
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How to stop reducing life? [closed]
CODE
Input input = gc.getInput();
int xpos = Mouse.getX();
int ypos = Mouse.getY();
emu = "Enemy Life : " + enemyLife;
Life = "Your Life Is" + life;
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how do I add development build number each time I compile and play?
I wanted each time I play my game, it will show in the console how many times you compiled or run the game. How do I do that?
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How do I create a Loading Scene in SLick?
I actually wanted just a fake loading scene. For a fake loading scene, how do I make a time variable or a time Method? I'm still a fresh java programmer!
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Can't get sprite to rotate correctly? [closed]
I'm attempting to play with graphics using Java/Slick 2d. I'm trying to get my sprite to rotate to wherever the mouse is on the screen and then move accordingly. I figured the best way to do this was ...
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How to use outside int to be used in my class? [closed]
I wanted my character's life to be the same as the other game state. My other game state is different the from my original state. I wanted to link my int to my new game state to make it the same. How ...
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Why do I have an error when adding states in slick? [closed]
When I was going to create another state I had an error.
This is my code:
public static final int play2 = 3;
and
public Game(String gamename){
this.addState(new mission(play2));
}
...
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Move sprite in the direction it is facing?
I'm using Java/Slick 2D. I'm trying to use the mouse to rotate the sprite and the arrow keys to move the sprite. I can get the sprite to rotate no problem, but I cannot get it to move in the direction ...
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Resource not found?
When I write in my terminal, java -jar myJar.jar, it gives me an error "Resource Not found res/playNow.png" When I run it in eclipse, it does not give me any errors about this image.
My folder in my ...
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Unable to access jar. Why?
I was making a game in java and exported it as jar file. Then after that, I opeed jar splice. I added the libaries and exported jar. I added the natives then i made a main class. I created a fat jar ...
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How to make an Image still when at position at Slick 2D?
I wanted to have a build functions. When I press for example 2, the image will appear with my character.
The question is, how do I stop it from following my character
//build
//I created many ...
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How do I make my Slick2D game fullscreen?
How do I make my game fullscreen? It's always in windowed mode. I'm using Eclipse on a Mac.
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How do I add Destroy with radius on Java Slick2d? [closed]
For Example, There is a tree(image) and i want to destroy it. I want my character only destroy it (For example the character must be facing the tree to destroy it and there must be a range were you ...
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Creating maps and tileset for a 2d java game
I'm not a completly beginner to java, so I decided to write a map loader and a tileset loader myself instead of using a tilemap editor like Tiled. I'm using Slick & LWJGL for my game.
The plan ...
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Variable Visibility Class Interaction
I have a very general question about how game classes interact with eachother in a growing RPG game project I'm working on. (Writing it in java/Slick2D, not that is matters because the question is ...
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Menu selection wont stay on selected option
My Menu has a START and a QUIT option. I'm using a controller's D-PAD for selection. The game begins with START highlighted. When I push the down button on the D-PAD, it highlights the QUIT option. ...
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How do you make bullets move at an angle in different angles using delta
I'm having trouble making my bullets move at a steady pace using delta. I have the formula I used outside of slick2d, but it doesn't take delta into account. My bullets fly fast. How do I make them go ...
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How to efficiently manage animations and/or textures (resources) in a game?
I am using Java, particularly the Slick2D library. Seeing as this is my first game, I have no idea how I should manage the Animations and the textures in the game in a way to be both memory efficient ...
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How can I accomplish Pokemon-style movement over tiles in java?
I'm talking about where if you press a directional key once you walk over to the adjacent tile and can't do any other actions during the walk. I can get my character to move one tile width, but my ...
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Invert colors Java rendering
I am making a 2d platformer in java using the slick2d engine. I only use 2 colors: black and white. I want to implement a feature were i invert the colors of certain entities. However i can't find a ...
