Making Simple Sidescroller with Overlap2D and libGDX - Tutorial - 001
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering libGDX and Overlap2D setup questions, such as viewport units and which runtime library version to use.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2016 to 2017.
What it is
A 26-minute tutorial from the Overlap2D channel that walks through building a simple sidescroller with the Overlap2D level editor and the libGDX game framework. It is the first part of a series and covers editor setup, scene loading and Gradle configuration.
What people said
Recommends Daniel Backman · 2016-01 · Stack Overflow · on “use overlap2d in libgdx has some wrong, can not fill the screen.why?”
The viewport should probably have WORLD units rather than pixels. You can probably check that in the overlap2d editor. I think it is shown in this tutorial: [this video]
Recommends Kevin · 2016-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Why isn't my LibGDX project seeing the Overlap2DStage class from the Overlap2D runtime, even though I've added it as a Gradle dependency?”
The tutorial I was following is out of date. The Overlap2DStage class I was trying to use is no longer a part of the Overlap2D library at all [LINK] ! If you were following that tutorial as well, Overlap2D now has a video tutorial that is more up to date here: [this video] Follow the video tutorial instead.
Recommends 12Vrafter · 2017-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Libgdx-Gradle Error at runtime”
Recently, I was working on a LibGdx Project when i heard about what overlap2D could manage.. So i tried it out with the gdx jar that i had already (gdx 1.9.6) in third party project i checked only the Overlap2D extention (v 0.1.0). on the video tutorial ((This one btw, [this video] )) i was watch it was asked to get into the build.gradle file and change the overlap lib version to 0.1.1-SNAPSHOT for all the project. Before trying that, i tried without doing so, as expected i could not manage to uses all the classes as in the tutorial. The method getEngine() is undefined for the type SceneLoader Since then i tried replacing the line in the build.gradle file. I tried a new project to replace the lin