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I'm sorry. It's not in StarCleaner

But it's in "Back to the past"

Download the source code here.

Have a look at the Mage class.

At the start of the update method of Mage you will find this code:

I check if "canShoot" is true and the fire button is pressed and there is enough mana left.
If yes, canShoot is set to false (so we can't fire again) and a new alarm "shootDelay" is started which will trigger in 30 ticks (the game runs at 60 FPS so this is half a second). This alarm will only trigger once and start immediately to measure time.

In the method alarmTriggered() you'll find the second part of the logic:

So after 30 ticks the alarm fires and the boolean "canShoot" is set back to true.

That's it

You could solve your "isDashing" problem exactly the same way.

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wow, that's pretty much exactly what I had, but I made Entity.alarms protected instead of public... and boom! not working code.

Thanks much, sir!

You're welcome!

Are you working on your own copy of MarteEngine? Because alarms is private inside of Entity (which I already explained earlier).

Just wondering

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I think that's what I'm going to end up doing. Simple reason is, the extensions that I want to make on top of it are so different that it won't mesh well with the direction that the engine is going in general.

However, I would be more than happy (pending your approval) to share, push, and/or make tutorials about what I'm doing (I prefer video tutorials, but it's up to you).

I might throw together a mini-tutorial about what I've got going now, which is dashing, air dashing, double jumping, and wall jumping.

Thoughts?

I'm fine with whatever you come up with!

Video tutorials are good IMHO, but I would also love to have a look at your source code. Maybe we can integrate it into an MarteEngine example for some platformer with enhanced features like dashing and air dashing.
Double and wall jumping is already working in StarCleaner but maybe your approach is better / smoother? Let's have a look

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I need to refactor a bit, as to be honest, this game code is the first Java I've written in my life ( ).

My idea is a speed model system, where you define models, which have attributes like friction amounts, max speeds, acceleration amounts, etc. You define them like you define Entity commands (in PlatformerEntity, I believe?),
and then all you would do is switch which model you're in, based on input.

I'm just not sure if that's a best-practices approach, because as I said, I'm completely new to Java.

Sigh, I have another ResourceManager problem. I'm getting this error:

"ERROR:No SpriteSheet for key playerStanding found!"

My spritesheet is named 'standingSheet.png' and it's in the 'player' folder.

Here's the important part of my resources file:



I really can't see what I'm doing wrong here, and the error message is a bit ambiguous. I'm not sure if it means that it's tried to find the file and couldn't, or what.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the way the map is loaded, as far as the location of the player. My player image is 36x36, and I'm afraid I don't understand how that will affect things.

Thank you for all the help!

Edit: I'd say that it has to do with the size of the image I'm trying to use, though that error message makes no sense in that case. I really hope I can find a way around this, because this is rather frustrating.

have you set into your resource.xml base dir?

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Okay, I started all over again, with the Wiki tutorials, so that I could narrow down the problem. I'm about ready to break my monitor, this is so infuriating.

In 'data/' I have the file 'staticStanding.png'.

My resources file looks as such:



This code works:



This code doesn't:



Produces: No image for key player found!

ALL of my code is exactly the same as the tutorial, and yet I can't get the ResourceManager to function correctly. I don't want to abandon Marte Engine, but that's my only recourse if I can't get something this simple to work correctly.

Any help would be appreciated.

Are you sure you call

before you try to instantiate a Player?
You must call this somewhere at the beginning of your game, for example in the init() method of your first state.

If the resource manager can't find a resource file he throws an error.

The fact that you get "No image for key player found!" is a hint that you didn't load the resources using the above line of code.

There's no need to abandon Marte Engine - it's working fine in several games now. It just requires a bit of learning and gathering experience - you'll get there shortly, I'm sure

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As I said, I'm following the Wiki tutorial exactly, and the ResourceManager.loadResources("data/resources.xml") call is the first line in 'initStates()'.

I know that it must be my error, but I copied the tutorial exactly, and it still doesn't work.

I've got the animations and images working without using ResourceManager, but I would really like to use it. Would it help if I just zipped everything up and shipped it to you?

Waiting for your email
Don't forget to include your own (modified?) version of ME if it is required.

Let's find this bug

Did I ever mention that I'm convinced that every developer should have a parrot sitting on his shoulder that shouts every few minutes "Polly found a bug! Polly found a bug!"

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Email sent!

I agree with your parrot idea, on one condition: when a customer buys software, it should come with a parrot to sit on their shoulder and say "It's not a bug, it's a feature! It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Answer sent!
Your code is fixed now. My assumption was right, you somehow forgot to load the resources before you used them

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Hi, can you check again this:

https://github.com/Gornova/MarteEngine/ ... -and-world

I think your problem derive from this tutorial: we must specify better that ResourceManager MUST be loaded before use of resource?

If it so, can you please open an issue on Github? Thanks

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