SVG Loader Extension

[dironto]

Hi everyone,

Just to show you the potential of this great extension by eric. Here are 2 screenshots, one of the inkscape screen where I can save the level as svg vector drawing. (=my level editor) and the other one is the actual game/tech-demo on my phone.

Hope this helps someone (for me it is much more useful than using tmx tiles for example to draw my world) and you can also draw elipses and circle like shapes!

and thanks to eric for this extension!

inkscape

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screenshot phone

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Ronald

[cat555]

Hi, i've installed extension on inkscape, but for some reason, i can't get it to work... i see the options of andengine extension on extensions menu (so i presume that extension is correctly installed), but i does not seem to work... i pick one of the .svg files in svgextensionexamples project, and i open them in inkscape... i select one object (for example, the ball), but when clicking on extensions options, the properties are all set todefault, and not the actual andengine properties defined on .svg file. Also, the .png textures are not applied... can someone help?

Thanks + Regards,

[dironto]

Hi cat555,

Use ctrl-shift-x in inkscape to see the actual values in the xml-editor within inkscape. The plugin will not show you the current values of a selected object, you can primarly use it to define them (once). This is a limitation of the plugin.
What do you mena with the .png textures not being applied? Try to play with the exisitng examples..

[cat555]

Hi Ronald,

Thanks for the help

Well, i run the examples on the phone without any problems. What i mean is that i cannot see the .png applied to object when viewing .svg files in inkscape. For example, when i open the .svg file, the ball has no .png texture applied... it does not make that big difference, but it's useful for preview purposes.

Regards,
Carlos V.

[cat555]

Hi Dironto, i see that in your example of game level you use several shapes... i was trying to do my own example level in inkscape using andengine plugin, but for some reason shapes do not appear on the running app on the phone... for example, i draw a simple star shape with some flat color... the body is correctly imported to the scene (and physics are correct), but it's invisible... i can see it only if i use a texture... what i am missing here? Can you help?
Regards,
Carlos Vieira

[dironto]

Hi cat555,

You could miss one of the needed attributes in the .svg xml of your shape, like: drawable or segments (I cannot lookup the exact xml attributes right now). What I did to ' learn' : copy as much as possible from the svg loader example where you can (hopefully) see the moving cross.
If you post your .svg I might have a look.

[cat555]

Hi Ronald, thanks!

Well, i do not have any concrete .svg file of my own... i was just picking existing examples and making some changes and adding some other objects... but i see what your point... i will try your approach

Best Regards,
Carlos Vieira

[jaym]

andengine-drawprimitives with a value of True

This will draw your shapes to the screen.

[cat555]

Thanks Jaym... i also had noticed that on my previous tests.
Regards,
Carlos Vieira

[cat555]

HI, i've tried using svg loader extension with latest andengine.jar and physics library, but window is always closed unexpectedly... but it runs fine with libs from "andenginesvgextensionexamples" project examples... how can we be sure of what is the correct libs to use, taking into account that latest andengine should be used (new fixed, better performance, etc...)
Thanks, Carlos V.