Box2D for Flash Games
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- Design blockbuster physics game and handle every kind of collision
- Build and destroy levels piece by piece
- Create vehicles and bring them to life with motors
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 166 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2012
ISBN : 1849519625
ISBN 13 : 9781849519625
Author(s) : Emanuele Feronato
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Games, Open Source
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Hello Box2D World
Chapter 2: Adding Bodies to the World
Chapter 3: Interacting with Bodies
Chapter 4: Applying Forces to Bodies
Chapter 5: Handling Collisions
Chapter 6: Joints and Motors
Chapter 7: Skinning the Game
Chapter 8: Bullets and Sensors
Index
- Chapter 1: Hello Box2D World
- Downloading and installing Box2D for Flash
- Hello Box2D World
- Defining the Box2D World
- Running the simulation
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Adding Bodies to the World
- Your first simulation – a ball falling on the floor
- Creating a circular shape
- Creating a fixture
- Using debug draw to test your simulation
- Creating a box shape
- Different body types – static, dynamic, and kinematic
- Density, friction, and restitution
- Creating a Totem Destroyer level
- Creating compound bodies
- Creating an oriented box shape
- Creating any kind of convex polygons
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Interacting with Bodies
- Selecting and destroying bodies with a mouse click
- Assigning custom attributes to bodies
- Looping through bodies and getting their properties
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Applying Forces to Bodies
- Falling apples, revamped
- Force, impulse, and linear velocity
- Applying an impulse to get a linear velocity
- Applying a force to get a linear velocity
- Forces in a real game
- Physics games aren't just a matter of physics
- Placing the physics bird
- Shooting the physics bird
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Handling Collisions
- Checking for collisions
- Box2D built-in collision listener
- Trace the beginning and the end of a collision
- Detect when you are about to solve a collision and when you have solved it
- Detecting when the idol falls on the floor in Totem Destroyer
- Destroying bricks and killing pigs in Angry Birds
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Joints and Motors
- Picking and dragging bodies – mouse joints
- Keeping bodies at a given distance – distance joints
- Making bodies rotate around a point – revolute joints
- When Angry Birds meets Crush the Castle
- Controlling joints with motors
- Controlling motors with keyboard
- Don't let some bodies collide – filtering collisions
- Putting it all together
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Skinning the Game
- Replacing debug draw with your own graphic assets
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Bullets and Sensors
- Experiencing tunneling
- Preventing tunneling – setting bodies as bullets
- Allow bodies to overlap while detecting contacts with sensors
- Summary
Emanuele Feronato
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- Create a physics world with gravity
- Manage materials assigning physics properties
- Interact with physics bodies using mouse or keyboard
- Build vehicles with joints and motors
- Handle every kind of collision
- Add forces and impulses to bodies
- Turn your graphic assets into physics bodies
- Fire bullets and destroy bodies
Physics games are getting more and more popular, and Box2D is the best choice if you are looking for a free, stable and robust library to handle physics. With Box2D you can create every kind of 2D physics game, only coding is not the fun part, but the game itself.
"Box2D for Flash Games" will guide you through the process of making a Flash physics game starting from the bare bones and taking you by hand through complex features such as forces, joints and motors. As you are learning, your game will have more and more features, like the physics games you are used to playing.
The book analyzes two of the most played physics games, and breaks them down to allow readers to build them from scratch in a step-by-step approach.
By the end of the book, you will learn how to create basic primitive bodies as well as complex, compound bodies. Motors will give life to cars, catapults and siege machines firing bullets, while a complete collision management will make your game look even more realistic.
If you want to make full Flash games with physics, then Box2D for Flash Games will guide you through the entire process of making a Flash physics game.
This book is a step by step guide to create games with Box2D explained in a simple and friendly way.
Are you familiar with ActionScript3 and want to explore the capabilities of physics in game design using Box2D, then this book is for you. You don’t have to be an AS3 hero: if you know how to create classes and functions with AS3, then you can make your first physics game!
