There is something brewing in the woods this morning…
Click here for the demo (up for a couple of hours)
What’s new:
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Support for spriteSheets. They can be build with tools like TexturePacker. The explosions are SpriteSheets.
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Support of Spine! Spine animations are state-of-the-art when it comes to 2D animations. You can use a ‘skeleton’ on your figurine and then start moving arms, legs, etc. All you need to make characters jump, shoot, fall. The animations are much more natural then with spritesheets. The boy is a Spine figurine.
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Scripting basics. Just like in Xojo’s HTMLHeader, you can push javascript to the browser. Work in development and will need a good knowledge of the pixi framework of the programmer.
What can you do in the demo:
- Jump by tapping the Space key (jump happens when the key is ‘up’)
- Click everywhere to create explosions (they are multi user again!)
The code for this demo:
Sub PreloadAssetsMovieClip()
' load assets
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetTexture("background", "iP4_BGtile.jpg", 1286, 640)
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetTexture("ground", "iP4_ground.png",1286,179)
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetMovieClip("explosion", "SpriteSheet.png", "SpriteSheet.json")
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetMovieClip("boy", "spineboy.png", "spineboy.json", "spineboySpineData.json")
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetAudio("bomb-explode", Array("bomb-explode.mp3", "bomb-explode.ogg"))
ABXPlay1.LoadAssetAudio("morning", Array("morning.mp3", "morning.ogg"))
End Sub
Sub DrawMovieClip()
' create a tiled sprite
dim bg as new ABXPSprite("background", "background", 0,0, 255, 0, 1,1,0,0,1,1)
ABXPlay1.AddDisplayObject(bg)
' javascript update script for the background
dim s() as String
s.Append "myself.tilePosition.x-=0.5;"
bg.SetUpdateScript(join(s,""))
' create a spine movieclip
dim boy as new ABXPMovieClip("boy", ABXPMovieType.aSpineMovie, "boy", 580, 640-145,255,0,0.75,0.75)
' set the mix modes
boy.SpineAddMix("walk", "jump", 0.2)
boy.SpineAddMix("jump", "walk", 0.4)
ABXPlay1.AddDisplayObject(boy)
' start walking
boy.SpineSetAnimation("walk", true)
' create a tiled sprite
dim ground as new ABXPSprite("ground", "ground", 0,640-179, 255, 0, 1,1,0,0,1,1)
ABXPlay1.AddDisplayObject(ground)
' javascript update script for the ground
redim s(-1)
s.Append "myself.tilePosition.x-=2;"
ground.SetUpdateScript(join(s,""))
' add continious playing morning song
dim morning as new ABXPAudioObject("morning", "morning")
ABXPlay1.AddAudioObject(morning)
' and play it in a loop
morning.Play(30,true)
' add the bomb sound
dim bombexplode as new ABXPAudioObject("bomb-explode", "bomb-explode")
ABXPlay1.AddAudioObject(bombexplode)
End Sub
exCounter = excounter + 1
dim Scale as Double = rnd*2+0.75
dim explosion as new ABXPMovieClip("explosion" + str(excounter), ABXPMovieType.aSpriteSheetMovie, "explosion", x, y,255,rnd*360,scale,scale)
ABXPlay1.AddDisplayObject(explosion)
explosion.MoviePlay(false, 0.5)
dim o2 as ABXPAudioObject = ABXPlay1.InternalObjects.Lookup("bomb-explode", nil)
if o2 <> nil then
o2.Play(60,false)
end if
' update the new state
ABXPlay1.Update(true)I think the next evenings will be filled with documenting the framework. Once that is finished, I’ll release an Alpha.
Cheers,
Alain
