Polygon is created far away the specified position, LibGDX - java

I've been looking for solutions in google with no success, I'm creating a small library (just a wrapper) for Box2D in LibGDX and I'm drawing a texture for each body, taking as base the Body.getPosition() vector, however, I see polygon's getPosition() is different respect to CircleShapes and the walls (which were created with setAsBox() method).
Here's an image:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/NzooG.png
The red points are the center of mass, the cyan circles are the geometric center (right?) given by body.getPosition(), as you can see I can adapt the texture to the body in terms of position, rotation and scale but this does not happen with polygons (except the ones made with setAsBox()).
Basically, what I want is to get the cyan circle in the AABB centre of the regular polygons. here's a runnable example:
import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationAdapter;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL20;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Vector2;
public class MyGdxGame extends ApplicationAdapter {
Tabox2D t;
float w ,h;
#Override
public void create () {
w = Gdx.graphics.getWidth();
h = Gdx.graphics.getHeight();
t = Tabox2D.getInstance();
t.debug = true;
t.newBall("d", 100, 200, 25);// Ball.
t.newBox("s", 10, 10, w - 20, 50);// Floor.
t.newHeptagon("d", new Vector2(200, 200), 40);
}
#Override
public void render () {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
t.update(0);// Don't move anything just to see the cyan circle.
t.draw();
}
}
Tabox2D class is here: https://github.com/tavuntu/tabox2d
NOTE: this was tested with the last version of Android Studio and LibGDX.
Thanks in advance!

Looks to me like you are positioning the shapes on the centre point, instead of the body. The centre of the shapes should be 0,0, not center.x,y. Fixture positions are relative to the body.

OK, so I think I solved this maybe in an inelegant way. What I did was:
Create the polygons points around the origin
Get AABB center of polygon and centroid (not necessarily the same)
Translate points to make AABB center the shape center, so the image can be drawn respect to this and not the center of mass.
The code needs a lot of cleaning but it seems to work just well, updated code in github repo, thanks!
The change was basically translate points from the original centroid to AABB center:
for(int i = 0; i < pts.length - 1; i += 2) {
pts[i] -= aabbCenter.x;
pts[i + 1] -= aabbCenter.y;
}

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When creating a Circle object with JavaFX and is using Graphic Context to stroke the Oval I want it to expand outside of the first created oval. So it will be larger than the last one and go around the first if that makes sense to you.
Here is a picture of what it is now:
Here is a picture of what I would like it to do. As well as the fillOval method too:
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c.setCenterY(e.getY());
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It seems to me your assumption on how strokeOval is defined is wrong.
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The parameters define a bounding rectangle and not, as you assume, a center and a radius. Just have a look at the documentation for more details.

ShapeRenderer produces pixelated shapes using LibGDX

When I use a ShapeRenderer, it always comes out pixelated. But if I draw the shape in photoshop with the same dimensions, it's very smooth and clean-looking.
My method is just as follows:
package com.me.actors;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Color;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Sprite;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShapeRenderer;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShapeRenderer.ShapeType;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Actor;
public class bub_actors extends Actor {
private ShapeRenderer shapes;
private Texture text;
private Sprite sprite;
public bub_actors(){
shapes = new ShapeRenderer();
text = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("data/circle.png"));
sprite = new Sprite();
sprite.setRegion(text);
}
#Override
public void draw(SpriteBatch batch, float parentAlpha) {
batch.draw(sprite, 200, 200, 64, 64);
shapes.begin(ShapeType.FilledCircle);
shapes.filledCircle(50, 50, 32);
shapes.setColor(Color.BLACK);
shapes.end();
}
}
Here's an image of the output:
Any ideas as to why this happens? Is it possible to make the ShapeRenderer look like the image (so I don't have to create a SpriteBatch of different-colored circles...).
The difference is anti-aliasing that Photoshop applies to the image it generates. If you zoom in on the edges of the two circles, you'll see the anti-aliased one has some semi-black pixels around the edge, where the ShapeRenderer generated circle just shows pixels entirely on or off.
The Libgdx ShapeRenderer was designed for being a quick and simple way to get debugging shapes on the screen, it does not support anti-aliasing. The easiest way to get consistent anti-aliased rendering it to use a texture. (Its also possible with an OpenGL shader.)
That said, you do not have to create different sprites just to render different colored circles. Just use a white circle with a transparent background, and then render it with a color. (Assuming you want a variety of solid-colored circles).
Here is really simple way to achieve smooth & well-looking shapes without using a texture and SpriteBatch.
All you have to do is to render couple of shapes with slightly larger size and
lower alpha channel along with the first one.
The more passes the better result, but, of course, consider ppi of your screen.
...
float alphaMultiplier = 0.5f; //you may play with different coefficients
float radiusStep = radius/200;
int sampleRate = 3;
...
//do not forget to enable blending
Gdx.gl.glEnable(GL20.GL_BLEND);
Gdx.gl.glBlendFunc(GL20.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL20.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
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//first rendering
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shapeRenderer.circle(x, y, radius);
//additional renderings
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a *= alphaMultiplier;
radius += radiusStep;
shapeRenderer.setColor(r, g, b, a);
shapeRenderer.circle(x, y, radius);
}
shapeRenderer.end();
...
Here is a screenshot of what can you achieve.
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LWJGL2 : config.samples = 2;
GWT : config.antialiasing = true;
Android: config.numSamples = 2;
iOS : config.multisample = GLKViewDrawableMultisample._4X;

LibGDX resolution independence

I've searched all around google and this website for infos about this problem, but cannot solve it..
I'm a newbie in game development and LibGDX, and cannot find a solution well explained on how to port my game to all the various screen sizes..
Would you kindly help me?
Thanx
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The Viewport class has different possibilities on how to do that transformation. It can either stretch your scene coordinate system to exactly fit the screen coordinate system, which might change the aspect ratio and for example "stretch" your images or buttons.
It's also possible to fit the scene viewport with its aspect ratio into the viewport, which might produce a black border. E.g. when you have developed the game for 4:3 screens and now embed it into 16:10 displays.
The (in my opinion) best option is through fitting the scene viewport into the screen by matching either the longest or shortest edge.
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Or when matching the shortest edge, this means your scene coordinates will always be shown from (x,0) to (x,10) ... But the right edge might not exactly have and x value of 16, since device resolutions differ...
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Once me too suffered from this problem but at end i got the working solution, for drawing anything using SpriteBatch or Stage in libgdx. Using OrthographicCamera we can do this.
first choose one constant resolution which is best for game. Here i have taken 1280*720 (landscape).
class ScreenTest implements Screen {
final float appWidth = 1280, screenWidth = Gdx.graphics.getWidth();
final float appHeight = 720, screenHeight = Gdx.graphics.getHeight();
OrthographicCamera camera;
SpriteBatch batch;
Stage stage;
Texture img1;
Image img2;
public ScreenTest() {
camera = new OrthographicCamera();
camera.setToOrtho(false, appWidth, appHeight);
batch = new SpriteBatch();
batch.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);
img1 = new Texture("your_image1.png");
img2 = new Image(new Texture("your_image2.png"));
img2.setPosition(0, 0); // drawing from (0,0)
stage = new Stage(new StretchViewport(appWidth, appHeight, camera));
stage.addActor(img2);
}
#Override
public void render(float delta) {
batch.begin();
batch.draw(img, 0, 0);
batch.end();
stage.act();
stage.act(delta);
stage.draw();
// Also You can get touch input according to your Screen.
if (Gdx.input.isTouched()) {
System.out.println(" X " + Gdx.input.getX() * (appWidth / screenWidth));
System.out.println(" Y " + Gdx.input.getY() * (appHeight / screenHeight));
}
}
// ...
}
run this code in any type of resolution it will going to adjust in that resolution without any disturbance.

Drawing a gradient in Libgdx

Ok I have this code
#Override
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// since last render frame
worldController.update(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime());
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// Sets the clear screen color to: Cornflower Blue
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0x64/255.0f, 0x95/255.0f, 0xed/255.0f,
0xff/255.0f);
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And it draws a light blue background onto the screen. I am attempting to create a gradient that goes from a dark blue at the top, to a light blue towards the bottom. Is there a simple way to do this? I'm new to Libgdx, and OpenGL so i'm trying to learn from a book but I can't seem to find the answer to this one. I've heard of drawing a big square and having the vertices different colors, but I'm unsure of how to do this.
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shapeRenderer.filledRect(x, y, width, height, lightBlue, lightBlue, darkBlue, darkBlue);
From the API for ShapeRenderer:
The 4 color parameters specify the color for the bottom left, bottom right, top right and top left corner of the rectangle, allowing you to create gradients.
It seems ShapeRenderer.filledRect method has been removed in late libGDX versions. Now the way to do this is as follows:
shapeRenderer.set(ShapeRenderer.ShapeType.Filled);
shapeRenderer.rect(
x,
y,
width,
height,
Color.DARK_GRAY,
Color.DARK_GRAY,
Color.LIGHT_GRAY,
Color.LIGHT_GRAY
);
The parameters for rect method work in the same way as those in filledRect used to do, like in Kevin Workman answer.
There are some further details worth bearing in mind before comitting to ShapeRenderer. I for one will be sticking with stretching and tinting Texture.
private Color topCol = new Color(0xd0000000);
private Color btmCol = new Color(0xd0000000);
#Override
public void render(float delta) {
...
batch.end(); //Must end your "regular" batch first.
myRect.setColor(Color.YELLOW); // Must be called, I don't see yellow, but nice to know.
myRect.begin(ShapeRenderer.ShapeType.Filled); //Everyone else was saying call `set`.
//Exception informed me I needed `begin`. Adding `set` after was a NOP.
myRect.rect(
10, 400,
//WORLD_H - 300, // WORLD_H assumed 1920. But ShapeRenderer uses actual pixels.
420,
300,
btmCol, btmCol, topCol, topCol
);
myRect.end();
I was hoping to change transparency dynamically as player health declines. The btmCol and topCol had no effect on transparency, hence I'll stick to Textures. Translating pixel space is no biggie, but this is much more than the proferred single or double line above.

Android game developing - dynamic bounds definition

I am currently developing a game for android using libgdx library .
Lets say we have a lizard, now the user creates paths by sliding fingers on the screen, on which the lizard can walk on.
The question is , how do restrict the lizard to walk on only where the finger touched the screen( on the path - between the bounds).
public class Block {
static final float SIZE = 1f;
Vector2 position = new Vector2();
Rectangle bounds = new Rectangle();
public Block(Vector2 pos) {
this.position = pos;
this.bounds.width = SIZE;
this.bounds.height = SIZE;
}
}
In this example we can see a block, the bounds of the block is a rectangle on which the lizard can walk on.
how do I make some similar bounds only using a circle?
Here is what i got so far:
I have created a doubled layer bitmap that overlap each other. When the user touches the screen , he erases the first bitmap reveling the second bitmap underneath the first one ( only the part where the user touched get removed).
here is the function that erases the first bitmap.
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
super.onDraw(canvas);
canvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
canvas.drawBitmap(bgr, 0, 0, null);
c2.drawCircle(X, Y, 40, pTouch);
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new_paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.SRC_ATOP));
//new_paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
canvas.drawBitmap(overlay, 0, 0, new_paint);
}
Notice#
the bitmap is removed using a circle shape.
It would be great if i could add to the circle that's removing the bitmap, a property of bound, on which the lizard can walk on.
Any ideas?
u should update the cordinates of bounds as per the lizard position
bounds.x=position.x;
bounds.y=position.y;
So that your bounds follow the lizard
Also instead of using recatangle for bounds try to use
sprite.getBoundingRectangle()
this method gives u the exact rectangular bounds of the image so no need to maintain bounds.
Provided you use AtlasSprite or Sprite for your image.
I shared my game Bomberman early. You can find code you needed in GameScreen class
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