How to start with Gideros Studio.

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• unlying Guru

  January 2016

  I think it will be great to have section on site with user tutorials.

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• keszegh Member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  i agree, a list-of-tutorials subpage would be important.

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• antix Member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  I feel better documentation would go a long way too. Tutorials are great but bad/missing documentation turns new users off very quickly.
  
  In particular right now the box2d stuff springs to mind. I have converted the C++ code from (http://www.iforce2d.net/b2dtut/top-down-car) to Gideros and although its all working now, the documentation here on the site made it a very trying exercise.
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2016

  @antix as far as I know, all box2d functions are documented, so what exactly were you missing?
  We can't improve documentation if we don't know what you are missing

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• antix Member

  January 2016

  @ar2rsawseen When you look about the web you will find many articles about box2d, and it seems the majority of them use c++. When converting them to Gideros it is rather confusing when things like b2Vec, b2Dot, setUserData, etc are not present in Gideros. For a new coder trying to figure out what these functions are and how to recreate them in Gideros is a daunting task in my opinion.
  
  Having clear explanations about the differences between implementations and possible workarounds would be fantastic

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2016

  aha, so you want helping classes, sure we can look into it

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• antix Member

  January 2016

  I suppose so, just so for new coders it is easier to get to grips with stuff. I'm proud though of getting my box2d cars working however

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• jdbc Member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  You can have a look to my public project here:
  https://github.com/jdbcdev/topdown_racing
  
  It uses box2d, collision, camera, scrolling, scenes (track.lua) and some intelligence artificial.
  
  
  
  
  http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/5653/top-down-car-game/

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• antix Member

  January 2016

  @jdbc, yep thanks, I did see that posted on the forums. It looks like you are directly handling collisions and updating of sprite positions. There doesn't seem to be any actual box2d physics happening at all (unless I'm missing something.
  
  Besides that it's a pretty neat program, I really like the rotated box collision stuff

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• jdbc Member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  @jdbc, yep thanks, I did see that posted on the forums. It looks like you are directly handling collisions and updating of sprite positions. There doesn't seem to be any actual box2d physics happening at all (unless I'm missing something.
  
  Besides that it's a pretty neat program, I really like the rotated box collision stuff

  TrackScene (track.lua) uses box2d to collision detection between cars and circuit borders. GameScene uses manual collision detection.
  
  Uncomment --self:debugEnabled() and you will see physic bodies.

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• antix Member

  January 2016

  Doh, yeah I missed that
  
  Why not use box2d for all colisions?

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• jdbc Member

  January 2016

  Doh, yeah I missed that
  
  Why not use box2d for all colisions?

  GameScene is not used in the github repository.
  

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