[lolly-pop]

hej leute, ich kriegs seit 3 tagen einfach nicht hin das ich eine WALL in einem level welches mit einem Loader geladen wird an den unteren rand des bildschirmes platziere, für die 2:3 verhältnisse passt es manchmal da die game scene ja auch auf 480×320 eingestellt ist, wechsle ich jedoch mit cmd+3 oder 4 auf iphone 5 oder anderen verhältnissen verschwindet der “ground” nach unten wo es nicht mehr sichtbar ist. Ich betone das ich nicht an die logical gameScene den bottom binden möchte sonder wirklich am unteren rand des screens von verschiedenen devices. Dies habe ich schon mittels y: gameWindowAnchorItem.height probiert jedoch scheint mir das gameWindowAnchorItem.height viel höher ist als die tatsächliche screenhöhe.

 

GameWindow {
id: window
width: 320*2
height: 568*2

…}

 

//SceneBase

Scene {
id: sceneBase
width: 320
height: 480
opacity: 0

…}

 

//GameScene

SceneBase{

…

// load levels at runtime
Loader {
id: loader
source: “../levels/” + gameScene.activeLevelString + “.qml”
onLoaded: {
loadItemWithCocos(item)
item.width = gameWindowAnchorItem.width
item.height = gameWindowAnchorItem.height
}
}

…}

 

//Level1

Item {
id: level

…

Wall {
id: ground
entityType: “ground”
height: 10
width: gameWindowAnchorItem.width
y: gameWindowAnchorItem.height – 10
img: “../img/platform_bottom-sd.png”
}

…}

 

Was mache ich falsch???

Würde mich über direkte hilfe freuen da ich auch ähnliche probleme mit der mouseArea habe  (ich muss linien zeichnen können welche jedoch je nach screenresolution von der tatsächlichen mouseY um eine gewisse pixelanzahl versetzt wird (und zwar um die differenz zwischen logicalscreen zum tatsächlichen screen enthatlenen pixel) ich habs probiert mit mouxeY – gameScene.x/2… funktioniert jedoch bei einer auflösung dann doch wieder nicht..

MouseArea{
//anchors.fill: level
height: window.height
width: window.width
onPressed: {
console.debug(“MouseY: “, mouseY, “gameScene.y: “, gameScene.y)
line.x1 = mouseX – (gameScene.x/2)
line.y1 = mouseY- (gameScene.y/2)
}

onMousePositionChanged: {
line.x2 = mouseX – (gameScene.x/2)
line.y2 = mouseY – (gameScene.y/2)
}
}

 

wären fotos hilfreicher falls ihr meine probleme nicht ganz nachvollziehen könnt? oder wie können wir das alles lösen? ist mein erster forumpost hier…

 

danke

 

 

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hi,

please use English in the forums, so other developers can find and understand the questions/answers, thank you 🙂

First of all, remove the multiplication in the width and height of the GameWindow and use total numbers instead, we experienced some strange outcomes related to this.

Have you centered your loaded level in your game scene? If not, your level will start at 0/0 of your game scene and expand to far down instead of half the way above and half the way below the game scene on other display ratios.

If that doesn’t help, I will have a closer look at your code tomorrow.

Cheers,
Alex

• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Alex.

[lolly-pop]

hi, sorry i did not know that i better should use English it was my first use of the forum.

 

well i did everything you told me, but still no success. The “ground” wall is still not on the bottom of the screen if i use iphone5 aspect ratio.

It is anchored to the bottom of the logical gameScene which is 320×480  so there is some space between the “ground” wall and the bottom of the screen, but

i want to use that space. is there no way to let the logical gameScene fill the devices Screen?

 

is there a possibility to use TeamViewer or something like that to finde the problem and solve this issue?

appreciating your willingness =)

Edi

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi,

using gameWindowAnchorItem should work (see our sample games, there it is working as well). If you still have problems, please upload a zipped project only containing the code parts with your issue to a web server and post the link here, or preferably use Rectangles and post the code here in the forums.

Cheers, Chris

[lolly-pop]

Hej, well gameWindowAnchorItem did not work from the beginning because it seems that it is higher than the used screen size.

And if i use gameScene.height there is of corse some space between the ground and the screen if aspectRatio is for example iPhone5 like.

 

here is the link to the code:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lnprgj89zay5qqb/Piggy.zip

 

please read the readMe.rtf file inside that zip because i mentioned there which *qml files are relevant and also at wich row the “ground” wall is located inside. There is also described my mouseArea problem concerning the screenSizes…

I hope you can help me because i really finally want to put my game on the appStore and google play store =)))))

 

thanks, Edi

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi,

please cut down your (big) project and extract the parts that are not working and post it with Rectangles in the forum here. This will also help you to find the error. The GameWindow & Scene concept with gameWindowAnchorItem works on all devices including the iPhone5 – see our sample games for a reference.

Cheers, Chris

[lolly-pop]

hi, here is the simplified code, i observed that the BoxCollider is not on the right place when switching through different screens…

well you should ave a log at this code in “setQmlRendererEnabled” mode, so you can see the BoxCollider is in some aspectRatios below the orange ground rectangle.

import VPlay 1.0
import QtQuick 1.1

GameWindow {

  activeScene: scene

  width: 640/2
  height: 1136/2

  Scene {

    id: scene
    width: 320
    height: 480

    PhysicsWorld {
      id: physicsWorld
      z: 10
      updatesPerSecondForPhysics: 60
      gravity.y: -10
      velocityIterations: 5
      positionIterations: 5
    }

    EntityBase{

      x: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.width/2
      y: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.height/2

      CircleCollider{

        id: collider
        radius: 20
        bodyType: Body.Dynamic
        restitution: 1
      }
    }

    Rectangle {

      id: loader
      anchors.fill: parent

      Rectangle{

        id: level
        color: "lightblue"
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        height: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.height
        width: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.width

        Rectangle{

          id: ground
          height: 20
          color: "orange"

          anchors{
            left: parent.left
            right: parent.right
            bottom: parent.bottom
          }

          BoxCollider {
            bodyType: Body.Static
          }

        }
      }

    }
  }
}

 

appreciating your help

edi

• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  nixo33322342.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Christian.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Christian.

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi Edi,

you are absolutely right! This looks like an engine bug. We’ll have a look into it and let you know when we have a solution for it!

Thanks for reporting and for nicely setting up the demo project! This is the way we can find errors. 😉

Cheers, Chris

[lolly-pop]

i am happy to hear that i could have helped you. Hope to hear asap that you fixed this bug so i can go on with my project “App Store release” =) haha

[lolly-pop]

i found out that it somehow works when you put the Physics world inside the level instead of putting it in the gameScene.

But this is very inconvenient because i would have to generate the pig also inside the level and i want as much logic as possible to have outside the level.

By trying to but all the logic inside the level it works on simulation on mac (desktop) but it crashes on iphone and android when trying to draw a line.

Any ideas how i could go on while the bug isnt fixed yet?

appreciating your help

edi

 

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hi Edi,

here is the code that solves your problem and I added an explanation of the exact issue below it:

import VPlay 1.0
import QtQuick 1.1

GameWindow {

  activeScene: scene

  width: 640/2
  height: 1136/2

  EntityManager {
    id: entityManager
    entityContainer: scene.entityContainer //!!!
  }

  Scene {

    id: scene
    width: 320
    height: 480

    PhysicsWorld {
      id: physicsWorld
      z: 10
      updatesPerSecondForPhysics: 60
      gravity.y: -10
      velocityIterations: 5
      positionIterations: 5
      anchors.fill: entityContainer //!!!
    }

    property alias entityContainer: entityContainer
    Item {
      id: entityContainer
      anchors.fill: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem //!!!

      Rectangle {

        id: loader
        anchors.fill: parent

        Rectangle{

          id: level
          color: "lightblue"
          anchors.fill: parent

          EntityBase{

            id: ground
            height: 20

            anchors{
              left: parent.left
              right: parent.right
              bottom: parent.bottom
            }

            Rectangle {
              anchors.fill: parent
              color: "orange"
            }

            BoxCollider {
              bodyType: Body.Static
            }

          }
        }

      }

      EntityBase{

        x: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.width/2
        y: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.height/2

        Rectangle {
          width: 40
          height: 40
          x: -width/2
          y: -height/2
          color: "red"
        }

        CircleCollider{
          id: collider
          radius: 20
          bodyType: Body.Dynamic
          restitution: 1
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

The problem is that you are using 2 different container items with 2 different coordinate systems where you put your colliders (entities) into.

First you are having the scene where you put your ball in. This scene is centered in the screen by default, meaning it’s 0|0 origin is also not always the left upper edge of the screen. Your PhysicsWorld is also put into that scene, so the 0|0 origin is the same like the one of the scene.

Your second container is your level, which has the same size as the gameWindowAnchorItem (the whole screen), so it’s 0|0 origin is always the top left corner of the screen.

Now imagine the screen is e.g. 320 x 580 pixel. Your scene is 320 x 480 pixel. The screen is 100 pixels higher than the scene, therefore the scene is put 50 pixel below the top of the screen to be centered. Then you put your ball into the scene at e.g. x:100 and y:100. It will be put 100 pixel right and 100 pixels below the 0|0 origin of both the scene and the PhysicsWorld, because they share the same origin.
Then you place your ground wall, which is 20 pixels high, on the bottom of your level which is 580 pixels high. This means you give the ground wall a y value of 560 pixels. BUT since the origin of the PhysicsWorld is not the upper left corner but 50 pixels below it, the ground wall collider is effectively placed at 560 + 50 pixels, resulting in being outside of the screen.

So the solution is to give all your entities and the PhysicsWorld a container that they share, so they all use the same coordinate system.

I hope this explanation is comprehensible, let me know if you have any further questions!

Cheers,
Alex

• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Alex.

[lolly-pop]

hello alex, thanks a lot for your explanation, i understand now what the problem was, and it seems as your hint is working fine, except one little new problem that i have…

 

i have a levelMovementAnimation inside the level object, and it does not move my level at all anymore, only if i use “target: window” which is absurt because

ofcourse i do not want to move the window item wiht the hud elements and so on, how can i move the level and all generated elemets (script for entityManager to randomly create obstacles onYChanged) inside it?

here is an code example to give you an overview:

 

import VPlay 1.0
import QtQuick 1.1

GameWindow {
    id: window
    activeScene: scene

    width: 640/2
    height: 1136/2

    EntityManager {
        id: entityManager
        entityContainer: scene.entityContainer
    }

    Scene {

        id: scene
        width: 320
        height: 480


        PhysicsWorld {
            id: physicsWorld
            z: 10
            updatesPerSecondForPhysics: 60
            gravity.y: -10
            velocityIterations: 5
            positionIterations: 5
            anchors.fill: entityContainer
        }

        property alias entityContainer: entityContainer
        Item {
            id: entityContainer
            anchors.fill: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem

            Rectangle {

                id: loader
                anchors.fill: parent

                Component.onCompleted: level.enterScene()

                Rectangle{

                    id: level
                    color: "lightblue"
                    anchors.fill: parent

                    EntityBase{

                        id: ground
                        height: 20

                        anchors{
                            left: parent.left
                            right: parent.right
                            bottom: parent.bottom
                        }

                        Rectangle {
                            anchors.fill: parent
                            color: "orange"
                        }

                        BoxCollider {
                            bodyType: Body.Static
                        }

                    }

                    MovementAnimation {
                        id: levelMovementAnimation
                        property: "y"
                        velocity: -20
                        target: level
                        running: true
                    }


                }

            }

            EntityBase{

                x: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.width/2
                y: scene.gameWindowAnchorItem.height/2

                Rectangle {
                    width: 40
                    height: 40
                    x: -width/2
                    y: -height/2
                    color: "red"
                }

                CircleCollider{
                    id: collider
                    radius: 20
                    bodyType: Body.Dynamic
                    restitution: 1
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

 

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by  nixo33322342.

[AlexFelgo Team]

Hi,

the reason for this is that you used a anchor for positioning the level:

anchors.fill: parent

If you try to speed up your boat while it is still anchored it won’t move either 🙂

So instead use:

height: parent.height
width: parent.width
// x: parent.x is default and same for y

But another problem that you run into with your approach is, that you will still not be able to move the collider of the ground this way.

The Box2D physic is using the colliders internal x and y value as their position relative to the world. Now that your ground is NOT moving inside it’s parent (the level), the internal x and y values will stay constant and the ground collider stays on the bottom of the screen.

Now depending on your use case you have several options for this scrolling kind of gameplay:

1. Put the player inside the moving level too, like we did in Chicken Outbreak, and declare the level as entity container.

2. Instead of moving the whole level, move the ground entity explicit. If you have a lot of entities to move, this could have a performance impact though, since every entity needs its own MovementAnimation.

3. If the bodies that you are moving are dynamic and not static, you can apply a velocity to them instead.

If you can describe your exact use case, we can figure out the best solution for you 🙂

Cheers,
Alex

[lolly-pop]

Oh okay i understand what you explained.
Well it kinda is the same like in chickenoutbreak but i have a lot of levels that are fix(now level movement) and i only have this one (mode) which is the highscoremode level where the game runs infinite and the user can mess up with other players highscores…

so if i would put the player inside the level (the level is loaded dynamical) i would have to put it in every level then.

 

Is this the best solution?

And how can i use the level as entityContainer when the level even does not exist until the user clicked on his desired level…?

i tryed this and did not worked…

<!--StartFragment-->property alias level: loader.item

    property variant entityContainer: level ? loader.item : 0<!--EndFragment-->

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by  nixo33322342.