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Learning LibGDX Game Development- Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554775
Pages 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Suryakumar B Nair Suryakumar B Nair
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Andreas Oehlke Andreas Oehlke
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Learning LibGDX Game Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to LibGDX and Project Setup 2. Cross-platform Development – Build Once, Deploy Anywhere 3. Configuring the Game 4. Gathering Resources 5. Making a Scene 6. Adding the Actors 7. Menus and Options 8. Special Effects 9. Screen Transitions 10. Managing the Music and Sound Effects 11. Advanced Programming Techniques 12. Animations 13. Basic 3D Programming 14. Bullet Physics Index

Organizing the assets


We will now create our own Assets class to organize and structure our assets. First, add a new constant to the Constants class that points to the description file of the texture atlas:

public class Constants {
    // Visible game world is 5 meters wide
    public static final float VIEWPORT_WIDTH = 5.0f;

    // Visible game world is 5 meters tall
    public static final float VIEWPORT_HEIGHT = 5.0f;
    // Location of description file for texture atlas
    public static final String TEXTURE_ATLAS_OBJECTS = "images/canyonbunny.pack";
}

Next, create a new file for the Assets class and add the following code:

package com.packtpub.libgdx.canyonbunny.game;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.assets.AssetDescriptor;
import com.badlogic.gdx.assets.AssetErrorListener;
import com.badlogic.gdx.assets.AssetManager;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureAtlas;
import com.badlogic.gdx.utils.Disposable;
import com.packtpub.libgdx.canyonbunny.util.Constants;...
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