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Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook Harness LibGDX to create cross-platform 2D games with more than 75 practical recipes covering everything from AI to building LibGDX Bitmap fonts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287291
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Diving into Libgdx FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with 2D Graphics 3. Advanced 2D Graphics 4. Detecting User Input 5. Audio and File I/O 6. Font Rendering 7. Asset Management 8. User Interfaces with Scene2D 9. The 2D Maps API 10. Rigid Body Physics with Box2D 11. Third-party Libraries and Extras 12. Performance and Optimizations 13. Giving Back Index

Skeletal animations with Spine

Animation is not a new concept within our Libgdx set of cookbooks. Chapter 2, Working with 2D Graphics, guides you on how to manage sprite sheet-based animations, which is definitely the most common choice in general terms. However, it is not the only alternative, since there is commercial software that takes us through a more streamlined animation process, covering topics that range from the creation of animations to using them within your games.

This is the case of Spine, a popular skeletal animation editor created using Libgdx and offers runtimes for most of the programming languages in the market, adapting a lot of their variants to specific game engines/frameworks, where Libgdx is included too.

In Spine, you can create a hierarchy of bones you can animate using key frames and create interpolations between them. Textures can be attached to bones, resulting in smoothly animated characters. Spine also has a free license but doesn't allow exporting to...

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