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Friday, April 11, 2014

Improved Slicing

The previous post showed cutting an object with lines and a curve. I've worked the code and can now slice an image into many pieces.

As before, if you would like this for your own projects, please get in touch on the CoronaLabs forums - user Horacebury.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Polygon Slicing With Corona SDK

As we all know by now, Corona SDK includes the fantastic 2D physics engine Box2D. Play with this for long enough and knowing how to manipulate polygons becomes very useful indeed. I've wanted to implement everything from Angry Birds to iSlash, so it was awesome to see Corona Labs include the new display.newOutline() function in a recent build.

This cool function basically takes a PNG with web transparency and returns a table of x,y coordinates for the circumference polygon of the visible pixels in the PNG. That polygon can then be plugged into a new constructor parameter of the physics.addBody() function to actually create a physics body against an image for that image's outline.

I wanted to take that further, ala iSlash, and decided to produce a library which would take the outline polygon and the end points of a line and separate the polygon into sliced parts. I won't go into the painful details of trying to dig up the code from the internet but suffice to say that code I found was either unintelligable enough to use or simply a mass of maths that I couldn't fathom.

Fast forward a few days and having tried at least 3 different methods I finally hit upon a winner. Here's the proof, running on Mac Corona simulator...

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As you can see, the intersection code works both for a single line cutting straight through the object at any any angle and even re-entering the polygon multiple times. It also handles a hand-drawn curve which, likewise, can start anywhere and enter/exit the shape as often as required. This allows quite a powerful set of options ranging from effects seen in iSlash to cutting shapes into unordered pieces.

I won't be posting the code this time as I fully intend to use this in my own productions. If you would like to implement this in your own production please get in touch via the Corona forums or on twitter: @horacebury

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Angry Birds in 30 Mins

It's a bit old now, but the proof still stands and this is a very entertaining video: Seb Lee-Delisle teaching an audience how to code up a simple Angry Birds in 30 mins with CoronaLabs' CoronaSDK.

You can follow Seb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seb_ly and browse his internet wanderings: http://seb.ly/

Friday, June 19, 2009

Too Awesome For Words...R2

http://www.wired.com/video/latest-videos/latest/1815816633/10000-fully-functional-r2d2/24892334001

R2-D2 droids for sale - $10,000 each.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Acorn Gamez - Reliving The Wonder

While getting a bit hacked off with a PC yesterday, I went looking for some videos from years gone by. I found some videos by a guy who really should be linked: http://www.youtube.com/user/peetvanpeebles

I really have to say thank you to Peet Van Peebles here - these videos are so inspiring! I just want to fire up the old Risc PC and get playing again :)

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Literal Music Video

Just been sent a link for literal music videos on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

Very funny.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Dilbert Links...

A huge collection of Dilbert animations...

http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3014797&utm_campaign=cat_comedy&utm_medium=cpc_socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Dilbertocean&utm_term=

Remember These?

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Capoeira

Monday, April 27, 2009

Windows Mobile Video Blogging

I want to be able to stream video direct from my Windows Mobile HTC camera, but until I find (or build) a mobile app to let me do that, I'll have to make do with the ideas in this cool little post:

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/windows-mobile-platform/articles/29486.aspx

Or the video equivelent of twitter:

http://12seconds.tv/

And an update, it is possible, but only with Nokia and iPhone:

http://www.flixwagon.com/

Better update:

Just discovered service Qik which provides live video streaming apps for a hell of a lot of mobile phones so I signed up, installed and am up and running! A revolution in blogging!

Check out the mobile links for the sites I found!