I dont know how many people have use SFML, but I basically want to draw my GUI and am unsure of how to do so.
To clarify I know how to draw a GUI but I don't know the 'correct' way to do so.
Currently I am drawing a GUI in the same RenderWindow that is used to draw the Game.
I have started to introduce Views into my game, I have a Game View and a GUI View, which take up 75% and 25% of the screens height (respectively).
Now the question is:
Should I render the GUI in the same RenderWindow but in a portion of the 'map' the player is unable to reach and have the GUI View locked on that location displaying the GUI.
Another idea I have thought of (unsure if it is plausible) is to have a second RenderTarget which renders the GUI and is dispalyed in the GUI View.
If there is a method I have not discovered or one that is recommend I am happy to hear about it, I searched but all I have found is the SFML Documentation in which I couldn't find my answer.
Your question is slightly confusing as I do not know whether you are having a design issue, or a technical issue of implementing the UI. In terms of the design issue:
I have started to introduce Views into my game, I have a Game View and a GUI View, which take up 75% and 25% of the screens height (respectively).
I haven't encountered where using multiple views will be needed for an UI. Take this example:
The UI consists of all the images in the black area. The positions' of those images are always updated relative to the position of the game view that follows the player around, nothing more. A second view isn't needed because the components (images) of the UI follow the view around, just as the view follows the player around.
Now, if you are having a technical issue, then please elaborate on the exact issue that has some accompanying code and I will do everything I can to help out.
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I have written a game in SpriteKit using objective C and it works perfectly on ios9 but it looks hideous on ios8. I would really like to know how to fix this problem, either by “correcting” my mistake, or if I have no mistake then by finding a workaround for the bug in ios8.
I think I have really done all I can to make the problem as clear as possible, including making loads of screenshots to illustrate the problem and also making a new Xcode project that is as simple as possible while still showing the problem.
If you want to try the Xcode project, here is a link for it….
xcode project
If you want to see the screenshots of the problem, then here is a link for the screenshots.
Screenshots
Now I will try to explain the code I wrote and the problem illustrated in the screenshots.
PLEASE REMEMBER: My code works perfectly on iOS9.3. So my code is obviously not complete gargage. But admittedly, I am not an expert on handling screen rotation, so probably my code could be better.
I should probably mention that both scenes have scale mode set to SKSceneScaleModeResizeFill. I chose this mode because I had tremendous difficulty doing proper layouts for all possible screen sizes (including iPhone) when working with SKSceneScaleModeAspectFill. I do I hope I can solve this problem while sticking with SKSceneScaleModeResizeFill.
Anyway, my app is a SpriteKit game with two scenes. The main scene is the GameScene, where you play the game. And this scene has a pointer to the SettingsScene, where you can change the settings of the scene. (e.g. change the level of difficulty).
Anytime the user rotates the screen, GameViewController detects this change in viewWillTransitionToSize and tells the GameScene object about the new screen width and screen height. Game Scene then adjusts the positions of its sprites in consideration of the new screen orientation and then tells its SettingsScene object about the new screen width and height to that the Settings scene is properly laid out as well.
Please note that with this design, all sprites on BOTH scenes get repositioned any time the user rotates the screen REGARDLESS of which scene is actually active at that time..
As I said before, all works as expected on ios9.3. But on ios8, the result is attrocious. The screenshots illustrate one example of typical experience on ios8. If the user rotates the screen while using the game and then goes to the settings screen, he will see something awful. And will often be trapped in this terrible experience because the button for going back to the main game might not even be fitting on the screen anymore.
At first, it might seem like I am failing to reposition sprites for landscape mode in the settings scene. But this explanation is wrong. The text on the screen shows that the last layout was performed with the landscape orientation in mind.
So what is going wrong here?
Any suggestions would be highly highly highly highly appreciated.
Thanks!
-j
p.s. In case you don't want to look directly at the linked project file, here are some details about the example code. GameViewController implements viewTransitionToSize to handle any screen rotation. It directly tells the new screen dimensions to GameScene, which then tells SettingsScene. Both scenes rearrange their sprites in consideration of the new screen dimensions. And all goes well on ios9. On ios8, however, the inactive scene ends up looking hideaous when it is presented even though it clearly did reposition its sprites according to the new dimensions.
the problem is easily resolved by these lines....
gameScene.size = newScreenSize;
settingsScene.size = newScreenSize;
anytime the orientation changes.
This code is not required for ios9. The scene knows what size the screen is without assistance. But for ios8, it seems to be needed to add this code.
Hi I'm looking to do the following:
For a game, Create some effects based on the current view.
The code needs to grab part of a view then manipulate it.
One I need is "glass", so when the character walks behind the glass(or where the glass should be), the code will grab the image behind the glass and stretch it and reprint it where the glass should be, to give the effect of walking behind a lens.
What is the best way to do this?
I've never tried any thing like this before, so any help will be great!
I think you're asking about the image manipulation capabilities of the cocoa framework, in which case I reccomend looking into CoreImage:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/graphicsimaging/Conceptual/CoreImaging/ci_intro/ci_intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001185
The NSBox draws on top of the player view, the resulting composition gets a CIFilter (distortion) applied to it before drawing.
I would like to create a image and content slider in Flex. There are many jquery plugings available
(cfr. Flexslider http://flex.madebymufffin.com/) but i can't find an alternative for Flex.
Can anyone explain me how i can implement this?
Thanks!
Ah it just so happens I already made this... a long time ago so it's Flex 3 but I believe it works as is in Flex 4, I've integrated this with other Flex 4 projects and have since made some performance improvements (mainly opting for Group over Canvas and did some deferred instantation since we decided to use it as the backbone for a pretty complex site).
http://www.shaunhusain.com/ImageSlider/
http://www.shaunhusain.com/ImageSlider/srcview/index.html
Should allow you to drag and snaps to the tile with it's top left corner nearest the top left of the container itself, also can use keyboard navigation left right up down so long as it has focus, and I made those buttons on top that can be used to trigger the movements. Basically I tried to overload that example with all possible options so I can just copy it and strip off what I don't want. It also turns out this translates pretty well to touch screens even though I didn't own one when I wrote it, the snap to nearest thing works alright on an android (even with that version which is totally not optimized for mobile). Oh yeah and you can use - and + on the keyboard or the scroll wheel to zoom, doubt if that's really ever necessary but it seemed like a cool idea at the time.
I'm wondering how to implement views similar to the conversation views in mail (for Lion).
http://images.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/images/mail_conversation_screen.jpg
I want the effect where it looks like a sheet of paper laying on the background.
I'm thinking that it may just be a view based table view.
A nudge in the right direction would be fine. Just need to know where to look to find out how to do it.
Thanks in advance.
It could be a view based table view or just a normal container view with some simple tiling logic (ie, "roll through each subview and set their frames"). The effect you're looking for, though, can be easily accomplished with layer-backed views with a background shadow enabled.
There are several perfectly valid approaches to this goal (the layout and drawing parts). Pick one, start down the path, then post questions as problems arise.
Is there any Cocoa control that is capable of drawing tile maps with multiple layers and multiple texture sources which can also intercept touches into single tiles? Having multiple layer support is not a real requirement but an optional feature (the views could still be stacked). Hardware acceleration is not needed at all.
So far I have toyed around with NSMatrix, IKImageBrowser and NSCollectionView but non of them felt like a good solution for the problem. Ideally I need an control similar to the one in Tiled.app. Is there anything, third party or built-in, or do I have to handcraft this control?
I fear that you will be hardly able to find a ready-to-use control for managing tile maps.
If I had to implement something like that on my own, I would consider using CATiledLayer, since this is the closest thing to a tile map control that I know of.
From CATiledLayer Reference:
CATiledLayer is a subclass of CALayer providing a way to asynchronously provide tiles of the layer's content, potentially cached at multiple levels of detail.
There is a nice sample by Bill Dudney (the author of "Core Animation for MacOS and the iPhone"). This sample could provide you a solid foundation for your own project, though it only displays one single PDF, allowing you to zoom in the area you clicked on (this requires rereading the tile at a different detail level).
Another interesting introduction can be found here. This is more step-by-step, so you might start with this.
Finally, on Cocoa is my Girlfriend there is a nice article, although it focuses on iOS, but you may find it anyway relevant.
Cocos2D supports building mac applications now
Article on cocos2d stating this: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/archives/1444
Aee here for how to do it: http://chris-fletcher.com/tag/cocos2d-os-x/
Aee here on how to use TMX tile maps with Cocos2D to build tile based maps: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/prog_guide:tiled_maps
This means you can use the power of Cocos2d and you will have to write much less code to get to where you want with a tile based map.
If you don't want to use Cocos2D:
It seems you would have to code it yourself, but it shouldn't be too hard to do.
First you can create your .TMX file using the tile editor "Tiled.app" then you would need to parse the XML using a standard xml library for Cocoa.
To lay out the tiles use a UIView for the overall container and then create a tile class that holds your tile display information and responds to clicks the tile class should extend UIView. For the tile class allow the assigning of a click delegate and assign your ViewController as the click delegate for all tiles so you can handle clicks easily with the clicked tile being passed to you.
Loop through your xml data and create and position the tiles in the overall UIView by using the tiles width/height and your tilemaps rows/columns.
I think in about a day or 2 you could have the tile map being rendered and clickable using the standard TMX format which will allow you to edit your map in "Tiled.app"
The TMX standard is covered here: https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/TMX-Map-Format
route-me might fit the bill.