So Im new to JME3 and I have a few problems understanding the BetterCharacterControl.
When I try to apply a BetterCharacterControl to a box it always "expands" from the upper part of the box instead of the center. (A picture explains that better:)
I cant find any functions to change the location it gets applied at, I already tried to create a subclass in which I changed the RigidBody to the BoxCollisionShape directly but that seems to somehow screw up the isOnGround Method. Also if I want to use slopes later it would be nice to have the capsule shape.
Box box2 = new Box(10, 15, 10);
player = new Geometry("Player", box2);
player.setLocalTranslation(new Vector3f(0, 20, 0));
Material mat = new Material(assetManager,
"Common/MatDefs/Light/Lighting.j3md");
mat.setBoolean("UseMaterialColors", true);
mat.setColor("Ambient", ColorRGBA.Blue);
mat.setColor("Diffuse", ColorRGBA.Blue);
player.setMaterial(mat);
playerC = new BetterCharacterControl(12, 30, 0);
playerC.setJumpForce(new Vector3f(0, 700, 0));
player.addControl(playerC);
rootNode.attachChild(player);
bulletAppState.getPhysicsSpace().add(playerC);
On a different note, it seems like I i have to apply a huge vector for the jump force for it to do anything (I didnt change any gravity values)
Im glad for any help
i had this same problem. The way I resolved it is not usual. I coded a class and did inherit from BetterCharacterControl overwriting getShape() method as follows:
protected CollisionShape getShape() {
//TODO: cleanup size mess..
CapsuleCollisionShape capsuleCollisionShape = new CapsuleCollisionShape(getFinalRadius(), (getFinalHeight() - (2 * getFinalRadius())));
CompoundCollisionShape compoundCollisionShape = new CompoundCollisionShape();
//Vector3f addLocation = new Vector3f(0, (getFinalHeight() / 2.0f), 0); REMOVED LINE
Vector3f addLocation = new Vector3f(0, 0, 0); //NEW LINE
compoundCollisionShape.addChildShape(capsuleCollisionShape, addLocation);
return compoundCollisionShape;
}
This works because the original code is a composite created in such a way so that the child node is offset by the value: (getFinalHeight () / 2.0f). The new line adds not realize this shift, leaving the object in the center position of the box set. However, this way of solving the problem, it can create problems when actually a composite mesh is used in the final object.
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I'm using an XYBoxAnnotation to demarcate a rectangular area on a JFreeChart. I would like one side of the box to be "open", i.e go out to infinity. I tried setting the value to Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY but this did not seem to work. I also tried setting it to Double.MAX_VALUE, with no luck either. In these cases, the annotation doesn't even show up on the plot at all. And there are no exceptions thrown.
Below is a very simple version of my code in which I generate the XYBoxAnnotation and add it to the plot.
XYBoxAnnotation _axisMarker = new XYBoxAnnotation(xLow, yLow, Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY, yHigh, new BasicStroke(0.5F), Color.WHITE, Color.WHITE);
_plot.getRenderer().addAnnotation(_axisMarker, Layer.BACKGROUND);
EDIT:
I figured out that the reason the annotation wasn't showing up was because the x value for the annotation was much much larger than the axis scale. For some reason, this causes the annotation to not be visible until you zoom out enough.
Thanks to #trashgod's answer below, I came up with a solution. His answer didn't quite work for me since my plot allows zooming and you could see the edge of the box when you zoomed out.
First, I added a PlotChangeListener to listen for when the plot is zoomed:
// define PlotChangeListener to update the annotation when the plot is zoomed
private PlotChangeListener _zoomListener = new PlotChangeListener() {
#Override
public void plotChanged(PlotChangeEvent plotChangeEvent) {
if (_basisIsotope != null) {
updateAxisMarkers();
}
}
};
Then I created a function to re-draw the annotation based on the new plot bounds:
// function to re-draw the annotation
private void updateAxisMarkers() {
_plot.removeChangeListener(_zoomListener); // remove to prevent triggering infinite loop
// define xLow, yLow and yHigh...
double xHigh = _plot.getDomainAxis().getUpperBound() * 1.1;
XYBoxAnnotation _axisMarker = new = new XYBoxAnnotation(xLow, yLow, xHigh, yHigh, new BasicStroke(0.5F), Color.WHITE, Color.WHITE);
_plot.getRenderer().addAnnotation(annotation);
_plot.addChangeListener(_zoomListener); // add back
}
Double.MAX_VALUE is too large to scale to the relevant axis, but Double.MAX_VALUE / 2 works as well as any value larger than the upper bound of the axis. A better choice might be a value that exceeds the maximum value of the domain by some margin. The fragment below shades a plot of some Gaussian data with an XYBoxAnnotation that has domain bounds extending from 42 to the maximum domain value + 10%; the range bounds are ±1σ.
XYSeriesCollection dataset = createDataset();
JFreeChart chart = createChart(dataset);
Color color = new Color(0, 0, 255, 63);
double max = dataset.getSeries(0).getMaxX() * 1.1;
XYBoxAnnotation annotation = new XYBoxAnnotation(
42, -1, max, 1, new BasicStroke(1f), color, color);
chart.getXYPlot().getRenderer().addAnnotation(annotation);
I am trying to add text for debugging purposes in my program. I call the players debugDraw method like so in the main class:
public void create () {
//Initialize essentials
cam = new OrthographicCamera(Gdx.graphics.getWidth(), Gdx.graphics.getHeight());
cam.setToOrtho(false);
rend = new ShapeRenderer();
rend.setAutoShapeType(true);
batch = new SpriteBatch();
// Initialize Entities
player = new Player(new Vector2(100, 100), new Vector2(100,100));
enemy = new Enemy(new Vector2(100, 100), new Vector2(100,10));
}
#Override
public void render () {
//Update player
player.update();
//Update camera then set matrix of batch
cam.update();
batch.setTransformMatrix(cam.combined);
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
// ShapeRenderer begin
rend.begin();
player.render(rend);
enemy.render(rend);
rend.end();
// ShapeRenderer end
// SpriteBatch begin
batch.begin();
player.renderDebugText(batch);
batch.end();
// SpriteBatch end
}
Here is the entity class which is the parent class to player:
public Entity(Vector2 coords, Vector2 dims){
//Assign constructors
position = coords;
dim = dims;
//For debugging purposes of all entities
debugText = new BitmapFont();
debugText.setColor(Color.WHITE);
}
public void renderDebugText(SpriteBatch batch){
debugText.draw(batch, "Vel.x: " + vel.x, 100, 100);
}
However when I run the program, I just get my normal screen with no text at all. I can't seem to figure out why this isn't working. Any help is extremely appreciated.
Nothing immediately looks wrong with the code you posted, so here's a few ideas;
The default BitmapFont is 15pt, if this is drawn at 15px height then it could be very small if you force your game to a high resolution, like Full-HD. My current project is Full-HD and the font I use looks just about right at 45px, so you could try scaling yours by a factor of 3 or 4. E.g. use this after initialising your font;
bitmapFont.getData().setScale(3);
Your Camera should also have the virtual/viewport dimensions, so if you are forcing a particular resolution then you should pass in your virtual dimensions instead.
As #Tenfour04 has suggested, you should try to avoid multiple instances of the same font, so instead of initialising your font in the Entity class, initialise it in your main game and pass it through the Entity constructor. I can't see how this would fix your issue though as this would be purely for performance.
I made a very simple mistake, but from how much code I posted, it is easily missed. On the line where I put
batch.setTransformMatrix(cam.combined);
it should be replaced with
batch.setProjectionMatrix(cam.combined);
Then all errors go away, sorry, I don't know why it took me so long to figure out. Thanks for all the help!
I need to rotate a link rectangle using Java iText.
The original link rectangle appears in red. The rotated link rectangle appears in green.
My code:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader( "input/blank.pdf" );
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper( reader, new FileOutputStream( "output/blank_stamped.pdf" ) );
Rectangle linkLocation = new Rectangle( 100, 700, 100 + 200, 700 + 25 );
PdfName highlight = PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_INVERT;
PdfAnnotation linkRed = PdfAnnotation.createLink( stamper.getWriter(), linkLocation, highlight, "red" );
PdfAnnotation linkGreen = PdfAnnotation.createLink( stamper.getWriter(), linkLocation, highlight, "green" );
BaseColor baseColorRed = new BaseColor(255,0,0);
BaseColor baseColorGreen = new BaseColor(0,255,0);
linkRed.setColor(baseColorRed);
linkGreen.setColor(baseColorGreen);
double angleDegrees = 10;
double angleRadians = Math.PI*angleDegrees/180;
stamper.addAnnotation(linkRed, 1);
linkGreen.applyCTM(AffineTransform.getRotateInstance(angleRadians));
stamper.addAnnotation(linkGreen, 1);
stamper.close();
But this code does not rotate the recangle.
Please take a look at the following screen shot:
I have added 5 annotations to a simple Hello World file.
The first two are link annotations. Their position is defined by the rectangles linkLocation1 and linkLocation2:
Rectangle linkLocation1 = new Rectangle(30, 770, 120, 800);
PdfAnnotation link1 = PdfAnnotation.createLink(stamper.getWriter(),
linkLocation1, PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_INVERT, action);
link1.setColor(BaseColor.RED);
stamper.addAnnotation(link1, 1);
Rectangle linkLocation2 = new Rectangle(30, 670, 60, 760);
PdfAnnotation link2 = PdfAnnotation.createLink(stamper.getWriter(),
linkLocation2, PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_INVERT, action);
link2.setColor(BaseColor.GREEN);
stamper.addAnnotation(link2, 1);
The green rectangle looks like a rotated version of the red rectangle, but that's not really true: we just defined the "clickable" area that way. I don't understand why you'd want to get this effect by introducing a rotation. Why? Because a rotation always needs a rotating point. Suppose that you would introduce a rotation, what would be your rotation point? The (0, 0) coordinate? That would lead to strange results, wouldn't it?
Introducing a rotation for does make sense for some types of annotations though. In my example, I introduced three stamp annotations:
Rectangle linkLocation3 = new Rectangle(150, 770, 240, 800);
PdfAnnotation stamp1 = PdfAnnotation.createStamp(stamper.getWriter(), linkLocation3, "Landscape", "Confidential");
stamper.addAnnotation(stamp1, 1);
Rectangle linkLocation4 = new Rectangle(150, 670, 240, 760);
PdfAnnotation stamp2 = PdfAnnotation.createStamp(stamper.getWriter(), linkLocation4, "Portrait", "Confidential");
stamp2.setRotate(90);
stamper.addAnnotation(stamp2, 1);
Rectangle linkLocation5 = new Rectangle(250, 670, 340, 760);
PdfAnnotation stamp3 = PdfAnnotation.createStamp(stamper.getWriter(), linkLocation5, "Portrait", "Confidential");
stamp3.setRotate(45);
stamper.addAnnotation(stamp3, 1);
In this case, I introduce a rotation angle using the setRotate() method. This rotates the CONFIDENTIAL stamp inside the rectangle we defined. As you can see, this makes sense because the annotation does have actual content: the rotation has an impact on the way you read the word CONFIDENTIAL. In the case of the clickable area of the link annotation, there is no such content to be rotated.
If this doesn't answer your question, please rephrase your question because I don't think anyone can answer it in its current state.
Update
Please take a look at ISO-32000-1 aka the PDF specification. You'll discover that a rectangle is defined using 4 values: the x and y coordinate of the lower-left corner of the rectangle and the x and y coordinate of the upper-right corner of the rectangle. These are the two starting points of the horizontal and vertical sides. You want a rectangle that has sides that aren't horizontal/vertical. Obviously that isn't possible as you'd need the coordinates of 4 corner points to achieve that (8 values, not 4). You can achieve this using a polygon defined by QuadPoints.
See ITextShape Clickable Polygon or path
I would like to understand one thing , below I saw that a collision between two rectangles works .
create method:
//nave
spaceShip = new Image(new TextureRegion(new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("rocket.png")),98,154));
spaceShip.setOrigin(spaceShip.getWidth()/2, spaceShip.getHeight()/2);
spaceShip.setBounds(spaceShip.getX(),spaceShip.getY(),spaceShip.getWidth(),spaceShip.getHeight());
spaceShip.setZIndex(3);
//meteora
meteora = new Image(new TextureRegion(new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("planet.png")),128,128));
meteora.setOrigin(meteora.getWidth()/2,meteora.getHeight()/2);
meteora.setPosition(Gdx.graphics.getWidth()/2, Gdx.graphics.getHeight()/2);
meteora.setBounds(meteora.getX(),meteora.getY(),meteora.getWidth(),meteora.getHeight());
meteora.setZIndex(3);
Render method:
rect1 = new Rectangle(spaceShip.getX(),spaceShip.getY(),spaceShip.getWidth(),spaceShip.getHeight());
rect2 = new Rectangle(meteora.getX(),meteora.getY(),meteora.getWidth(),meteora.getHeight());
if(Intersector.overlaps(rect1,rect2)){
System.out.println("collision");
}
Now , my question is :
as I can see collisions with dynamic objects .
Let me explain, there will be different now created in a random time .
So how can I tell if a collision occurs with one of these objects and understand what it is .
Rectangle has no method .setName , I wanted to use this to figure out which object my ship touched .
Can anyone recommend a solution ?
Thank You
EDIT
add Image object
meteora = new Image(new TextureRegion(new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("planet.png")), 128, 128));
meteora.setOrigin(meteora.getWidth() / 2, meteora.getHeight() / 2);
meteora.setPosition(Gdx.graphics.getWidth() / 2, 100);
meteora.setZIndex(3);
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(meteora.getX(),meteora.getY(),meteora.getWidth(),meteora.getHeight());
rectangles.add(rect);
I am not entirely sure what the question is, but in answer to what I think you are getting at:
Typically you would want to add all the new randomly created rectangles to a collection of rectangles, then you can iterate through this collection to check for collisions:
List<Rectangle> rectangles = new ArrayList<Rectangle>(); // a field in your class
// inside the method to create random rectangles
Rectangle tmp = new Rectangle(1,2,3,4);
rectangles.add(tmp);
// inside the method to check for collisions
for(Rectangle rect : rectangles) {
if(Intersector.overlaps(rect, shipRect) {
System.out.println("collision");
}
}
Note that your rect1 for your ship's bounds should be saved as a field (shipRect in this example) as well so that you can refer back to it at any time
I'm testing something with jMonkeyEngine and I'm attempting to have the camera follow a box spatial. I followed official instructions here:
http://jmonkeyengine.org/wiki/doku.php/jme3:advanced:making_the_camera_follow_a_character
When applying, what I learnt there I produced the following code:
#Override
public void simpleInitApp() {
flyCam.setEnabled(false);
//world objects
Box b = new Box(Vector3f.ZERO, 1, 1, 1);
Geometry geom = new Geometry("Box", b);
Material mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
mat.setColor("Color", ColorRGBA.Blue);
geom.setMaterial(mat);
rootNode.attachChild(geom);
//Ship node
shipNode = new Node();
rootNode.attachChild(shipNode);
//Ship
Box shipBase = new Box(new Vector3f(0, -1f, 10f), 5, 0.2f, 5);
Geometry shipGeom = new Geometry("Ship Base", shipBase);
Material shipMat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
shipMat.setColor("Color", ColorRGBA.Green);
shipGeom.setMaterial(shipMat);
shipNode.attachChild(shipGeom);
//Camera node
cameraNode = new CameraNode("Camera Node", cam);
cameraNode.setControlDir(ControlDirection.CameraToSpatial);
shipNode.attachChild(cameraNode);
initPhysics();
initKeys();
}
When the following code is called:
#Override
public void simpleUpdate(float tpf) {
//Update ship heading
shipHeading = shipHeading.mult(shipRotationMoment);
shipNode.setLocalRotation(shipHeading);
shipPos = shipPos.add(shipVelocity);
shipNode.setLocalTranslation(shipPos);
}
The box moves as is predicted but the camera stays where it is. The graph should be something like this:
rootNode
b (Box)
shipNode
shipBase
cameraNode
Therefore the camera should be already bound to shipNode. What am I missing?
Reading through the tutorial you provided, it seems you might have a typo. You have:
cameraNode.setControlDir(ControlDirection.CameraToSpatial);
However, the tutorial has:
//This mode means that camera copies the movements of the target:
camNode.setControlDir(ControlDirection.SpatialToCamera);
Lower down in the tutorial it defines the difference between these 2 ControlDirections. The one the tutorial provides has the camera follow the movement of the object, whereas what you have the object follows the movement of the camera.
Hope this helps.