Now I could be wrong about this but after testing it all day, I have discovered...
When adding a widget and setting the z-index, the value "0" seems to be the magic depth.
If a widget's Z is at 0, it will be drawn on top of everything that's not at 0, Z wise.
It doesn't matter if a widget has a z-index of 99, -999, 10, -2 or what ever... It will not appear on top of a widget who's z-index is set to 0.
It gets more strange though...
Any index less than -2 or greater than 2 seems to create an "index out of range" error. Funny thing is...when I was working with a background and sprite widget, the background's Z was set to 999 and no errors. When I added another sprite widget, that's when the -2 to 2 z-index limitation appeared.
Yeah I know...sounds whacked!
My question is, am I right about "0" being the magic Z value?
If so, creating a simple 23D effect like making a sprite move being a big rock will take some unwanted code.
Since you can only set Z when adding,a widget, one must remove and immediately add back, with the new Z value...a widget.
You'll have to do this with the moving sprite and the overlapping object in question. Hell, I already have that code practically written but I want to find out from Kivy pros, is there a way to set z-index without removing and adding a widget.
If not, I'll have to settle for the painful way.
My version of Kivy is 1.9.0
What do you mean by z-order? Drawing order is determined entirely by order of widgets being added to the parent, and the index argument to add_widget is just a list index at which the widget will be inserted. The correct way to change drawing order amongs widgets is to remove and add them (actually you can mess with the canvases manually but this is the same thing just lower level, and not a better idea).
I found a working solution using basic logic based on the fact widgets have to be removed and added again in order to control depth/draw order.
I knew the Main Character widget had to be removed along with the object in question...so I created a Main Character Parent widget, which defines and control the Main Character, apart from its Graphic widget.
My test involves the Main Character walking in front of a large rock, then behind it...creating a 23D effect.
I simply used the "y-" theory along with widget attach and detach code to create the desired effect.
The only thing that caught me off guard was the fact my Graphic widget for my Actor was loading textures. That was a big no no because the fps died.
Simple fix, moved the texture loading to the Main Character Parent widget and the loading is done once for all-time.
PS, if anyone knows how to hide the scrollbars and wish to share that knowledge, it'll be much appreciated. I haven't looked for an API solution for it yet but I will soon.
Right now I'm just trying to make sure I can do the basic operations necessary for creating a commercial 23D game (handhelds).
I'm a graphic artist and web developer so coming up with lovely visuals won't be an issue. I'm more concerned with what'll be "under the hood" so to say. Hopefully enough, lol.
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I'm using Blender 2.8 and I just have 2 objects: hand and gun and I want to create animations for them. So, for instance, I want to create a simple firing animation. What I do:
1. I create animation for gun
2. I create animation for hand
But if I switch somehow incorrectly I "lose" the first animation I've created. I tried creating fake users and stuff. I just don't get why I select the armature for which I've just created the animation, it plays, but there are no keyframes.
Here's the vid, here's the file.
Ask me questions if you have any.
The movement may be cached in Blender, you may need to reset the movement cache.
Alternatively, you should look at both the Track Controller and Dopesheet(action editor) - the animation may be stored in both.
The movement could be related to parenting ( to an object that is moving )
The movement could also be caused by physics simulation of a rigid body.
Hopefully with the help of the above, you find the problem.
I had the same problem. In the Animation mode (horizontal tabs across the top of the window), click on the object to animate.
The keyframes will appear.
If the object is not selected, the keyframes disappear.
Just leaving this here so that nobody spends 30 minutes trying to work this out, like i just did.
I'm building a game in which I can enter a building, which I'm handling via states. In other words, when my character overlaps with the door, the program starts a new state in which the interior of the building is built. Now, I want the interior to have smaller dimensions than the world, so I want to change the game size when I start this new state.
I tried this:
create: function()
{
//game size was 1000x700, I want to scale it to 700x450
game.width = 700;
game.height = 450;
//rest of creation code...
}
I also tried things like changing camera bounds, world bounds, world size, but method above shows the most promise.
The problem, however, is that the resize for some reason does not show until I click away from my browser tab and back. Calling game.width in the console yields 700 at all times, but it doesn't show it as such until tabbing out and back.
On top of that, the contents of the game (floor, furniture) are scaled down when the game resizes, defeating the purpose. I don't understand why it would, since there's no scaling anywhere in my code.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit:
I just saw that you were the one asking the question I linked to, so I guess the question is solved :D
I had a similar problem some time ago. As you described yourself: what you are doing is a resize! So the game resizes itself which means the same as re-scaling everything in the game.
if you want to cut the game smaller you can simply use
game.scale.setGameSize(700, 450);.
(see this post if you need more information)
As additional information: I later had problems with cutting the game size equally on all sides, so if you should come to face the same problem, have a look at this post
basically I am trying to edit not only the appearance of the button(thats the easy part) but the frame that detects the touch to be a rhombus rather then a square
html example:http://irwinproject.com
I've tried CGAfflineTransform however it doesn't allow me to make non rectangular objects. is there a way to skew
Im just wondering if this is possible because, if not could someone point me in a direction the only viable answer I've found is resorting to something along the lines of a spriteKit;
I found this however this implementation leaves dead spots on buttons where they overlap
custom UIButton with skewed area in iPhone
is there a way to message people on here there was a gentleman who said he figured out how to transform but never posted his solution.
In order to modify the touch area of an oddly shaped button you could use a solution similar to OBShapedButton. I have used this particular project in the past myself for adjacent hexagon buttons and it worked perfectly. That said, you may have to modify it a bit to work with drawn shapes instead of images.
Am using three.js
How can I control the rendering order? Let's say I have three plane geometries, and want to render them in a specific order regardless of their spatial position.
thanks
You can set
renderer.sortObjects = false;
and the objects will be rendered in the order they were added to the scene.
Alternatively, you can leave sortObjects as true, the default, and specify for each object a value for object.renderOrder.
For more detail, see Transparent objects in Threejs
Another thing you can do is use the approach described here: How to change the zOrder of object with Threejs?
three.js r.71
for threejs r70 and higher is renderDepth removed.
Using object.renderDepth worked in my case. I had a glass case and bubbles inside that were transparent. The bubbles were getting lost at certain angles.
So, setting their renderDepth to a high number and playing with other elements depths in the scene fixed the issue. Hooking up a dat.gui control to the renderDepth property made it very easy to tweak what needed to be at what depth to make the scene work.
So, in my fishScene, I have gravel, tank and bubbles. I hooked up the gravel mesh with a dat.gui control and with in a few seconds, I had the depth I needed.
this.gui.add(this.fishScene.gravel, "renderDepth", 0, 200);
i had a bunch of objects which was cloned from a for loop in random position x and y... and obj.z ++, so they would line up in line.. including obj.renderOrder ++; in the loop solved my issue.
I'm just starting out, still working on improving my little poker calculator. What I'm aiming to do is have the controls on the right (green) set the float value of the middle textboxes. The hitch is that I want to do it to only the textbox that the red arrow is at. On the flipside if I move the red arrow I want it to reset the green arrow to whatever is in the textboxes where red stops.
Hope that makes sense.
I have action methods for all of the sliders and red returns exactly a value from 1-8 depending on where it stops (Currently 1)
The textboxes are all named call_1, call_2 etc for the time being but I don't know how make a method declaration for anything but exactly the name I need. Because the Red Arrow returns 1-8 that _1, _2 etc would be the way to go. It would also be nice to use this for loop counts as well in a few places.
http://img833.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110319at723.png/
Thanks guys, I really really appreciate everything Overflow has done so far!
Cheers
Graham
Edit :
What I am trying to do is with the textboxes is to use the red slider which gives me an int of X (1-8) in this fashion.
[call_x setFloatValue:someValue]
As X changes the destination changes as well. If I can get help with this I can manipulate it to do everything else I want.
I don't fully understand what you are trying to accomplish but from looking at your screenshot I would bet that key-value observing could help you. It looks like you are dealing with the copious amounts of glue code that ends up cluttering up controller classes. This glue code manages updating your model when a view changes, and vice versa. It also defines the logic among views (i.e update a text box when a slider changes etc).
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueObserving/KeyValueObserving.html
Key-Value observing allows you to receive a callback when some value in another object changes. In this callback you update anything else that needs it. Taking this one step further is bindings in cocoa. Bindings literally bind the property of one object to the value of another. You should investigate these technologies to reduce the amount of boring glue code you have to manage yourself.