Hi all,

I've made an Emitters class for my games emitters. It extends FlxGroup and I create/define the public emitters in the new() constructor. It also has some functions in the class to emit on objects, particle and points. All the emitters and functions are public static.

It works great for my game, but I'm wondering if there are any drawbacks doing it the way I am.

You can check out the demo project here

It has a few sample emitters defined, but they can be changed and others can be added to the Emitters class as needed.

I appreciate your feedback, and feel free to use the code however you want. Please let me know what you think of my method, whether it's good or bad.

If anyone that knows all the ins and outs of defining emitters, I'd love to see some better examples that I can add to this demo.

You can add this to project.xml in case it ends up in your assets folder again.

<assets path="assets" exclude="*.db" />

@xhunterko

You're welcome. Good luck with your game!

@xhunterko

yay!

I think the Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE] problem might be the package name in project.xml. Make sure they are 3 segments and unique.

<meta title="Game Title" package="com.mydomain.GameTitle" version="1.0" company="" />

@xhunterko

Did you try taking the android studio SDK_ROOT line out of the config and set the r11c path like above ^ ?

I figured it out. I needed to use Assets.getFont() and embedFonts = true;

Here's the code if it helps anyone.

		var oflScaleX = Lib.current.stage.stageWidth / FlxG.width;
		var oflScaleY = Lib.current.stage.stageHeight / FlxG.height;
		var inputText = new TextField();
		var fontName = Assets.getFont("fonts/nokiafc22.ttf").fontName;
		
		inputText.embedFonts = true;
		inputText.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(fontName, textSize * oflScaleY);
		inputText.type = TextFieldType.INPUT;

EDIT: You don't need to copy the font to your project assets. You can use on existing FlxText object to get the font.

inputText.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(txtMessage.font, textSize * oflScaleY);

I'm using an openFL TextField type INPUT for android target as a workaround so I can get the softkeyboard when it receives focus.

I found this and I'm doing a similar workaround.

I have it scale to my game and everything works fine, but I can't get the font to match the default pixel font HF uses. How can I do that?

I've tried copying the flixel font to assets/fonts/nokiafc22.ttf to use it, but it still uses the system font. If I specify "_sans" I get the sans font no problem, but I'd like to match the HF pixel font.

Is there a way to do this? Maybe I'm missing something simple here.

@xhunterko

In your hxcpp_config.xml you have <set name="SDK_ROOT" value="C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio" /> so something set that. You should take it out of the file at least.

FlashDevelop shouldn't need anything.

The Android Studio install may, or may not be the problem. If you are using it, then is the other folder Development even used? This is the one difference I know I have. I never installed Android Studio.

EDIT: I found this on openfl forum and makes me think Android Studio is your problem. See player_03 comment.

@xhunterko

Maybe the <set name="SDK_ROOT" value="C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio" /> is a problem. I don't have that in mine.

Try this.

• Download and unzip this to C:\Development\
  android-ndk-r11c

• Remove the <set name="SDK_ROOT" value="C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio" /> from hxcpp_config.xml.

• Change NDK path to <set name="ANDROID_NDK_ROOT" value="C:\Development\android-ndk-r11c" />

• Open SDK Manager and make sure these are installed:
  Android SDK Build-tools 23.0.3
  Android SDK Platform-tools 24
  Android SDK Tools 25.1.7
  API 16, API 19 and API 23

• Delete, or rename export folder for a clean build.

I hope it works. I'm out of gas.