This section contains all tutorials indexed by subject for orx, an opensource, portable, lightweight, data-driven & 2D-oriented game engine.

Contributions are very welcome.

Sound & Music Sound Recording Sound Buses

Working with Android (new users start here!) Android Studio, NDK, and Orx library Compiling Orx Library & Demo Project Android Demo as a template project Using SWIG to talk to Java on Android

New Animation System Walkthrough Basic Animation Animation and Clearing Targets Animation Inheritance with Prefixes Text Animation Scene Loading and Animation Realistic Walk Movement Creating Particle Explosions Addin for The Gimp to Extract Guides for Configuration Mouse over effect for buttons Creating an Insect Object (Animation)

Localization Stand Alone Application Using orxObjects in Classes with an EventHandler An Introduction to orx/Scroll

Viewport and Camera Cameras and Frustums

Clock

Getting Code::Blocks for Windows Building the Orx Library with Code::Blocks on Mac OS X Building the Orx Library with Code::Blocks on Linux

Getting Codelite for Windows Building the Orx Library with Codelite on Mac OS X Building the Orx library on Linux with Codelite Setting up Visual Studio (win) or Codelite (linux) Setting up Codelite on Linux Stand Alone Application

orxCOLOR and how to colour an object Converting a percentage to a color A natural-looking glowing ball effect

Compositing (2D lighting with offscreen rendering) Viewport Render to Texture

Guide to the Orx Console and Commands The Bounce Demo Custom Console Colors

Command Module Syntax Command and Timeline Notes

Encrypting Config Files Saving information to a config file Changing the Default Config File Changing the Default Config File for orx/Scroll Retrieving and Updating Config Values Stepped Random Values

Interaction, Control and Physics Realistic Walk Movement Creating Particle Explosions

Multiple Monitors Custom Mouse Cursors Application Icons Borderless Window Mode

Getting Started with Orx

Realistic Walk Movement Using orxObjects in Classes with an EventHandler Creating Particle Explosions

Fun with Text and Shaders orxFontGen Font image generation tool (orxFontGen article 2) Font tool for unicode, including Chinese

FX Sparks with Spawners and FX Creating an Insect Object (Speed FX)

Beginner's Guide - Platform Game Beginner's Guide - 2D UFO Game Making an Arkanoid Game Making an Arkanoid Game Part 2

Using compressed textures on the iPad Porting a game to the iPad

8 Way Joystick / Gamepad Control Analog Joystick / Gamepad Control Analog Stick Threshold Overriding a Controller Mapping Remapping Controller Inputs Testing Key, Joystick and Mouse Inputs Interaction, Control and Physics Realistic Walk Movement Creating Particle Explosions Mouse over effect for buttons Notes on input Keyboard Inputs

Creating an Insect Object (Revolute Joint) Weld Joint on parent/child Objects with Bodies Z-order of Objects with Joints

Semi-dynamic Objects and Level Mapping Using the Tiled to ORX Converter Hexagon Grid Tutorial Creating Maps in ScrollEd

Setting up a Development Environment on Linux Linux Setup (brief overview) Building the Orx library on Linux with Codelite Codelite in Linux Building the Orx Library with Code::Blocks on Linux Setting up Visual Studio (win) or Codelite (linux)

Localization

Setting up a Development Environment for Mac OS X Cloning and building the Orx library on Mac OS X Building the Orx Library with Xcode on Mac OS X Building the Orx Library with Codelite on Mac OS X Building the Orx Library with Code::Blocks on Mac OS X Setting up a game project on Mac OS X

Sound & Music Sound Recording Sound Buses

Basic Object Object Transformation Semi-dynamic Objects and Level Mapping Objects in Classes with EventHandlers The Binding of Objects Object Traversing Notes on Rotation A natural-looking glowing ball effect Creating an Insect Object Creating an Object made of many Parts Passing items from one Object to another Logging all Structures to a Tree Object Lifetime Relative Object Positioning and Scaling Teleporting on Screen Edges

orxSTRINGs, strings and chars orxCOLOR and how to colour an object Lists, HashTables and Trees

Cloning Orx from Github Using Premake to create a Build Project to compile ORX from scratch Compiling Orx with mingw32/gmake Download a pre-built Orx for your environment The Bounce Demo

An Introduction to Orx/Scroll The Binding of Objects Empty Orx/Scroll Project Creating your own orx/Scroll project using 'init' Creating Maps in ScrollEd Colliding ScrollObjects with Orx Objects Access Scroll class from ScrollObject ScrollObject to ScrollObject Communication Changing the Default Config File for orx/Scroll Moving a ScrollObject along a curve

Basic Physics and Collisions Physics Interaction, Control and Physics Using the Inkscape SVG to ORX Converter Creating an Object made of many Parts Creating an Insect Object (Animation) Weld Joint on parent/child Objects with Bodies Applying a force at a position point

Using Premake to create a Build Project to compile ORX from scratch How to use Premake to create a build configuration for your own project in any IDE/OS

Creating your own project using 'init' How to use Premake to create a build configuration for your own project in any IDE/OS XCode 3 Tutorial Working with Android Native Tutorial (deprecated) Using the Android Demo as a template for your own projects Using orxhub

Preparing for a release under Windows Preparing for a release under MacOSX Console-less Applications

Scrolling

Zip Archive Resources Resources over HTTP

Scene Loading and Animation

Spawner & Shader Shader & Lighting Shader coordinates tutorial Hexagon Grid Tutorial A natural-looking glowing ball effect Fun with Text and Shaders

Sound & Music Sound Recording Sound Buses

Spawner & Shader Creating Particle Explosions Spawning Bullets Sparks with Spawners and FX Futurama Appearance Effect Spawners using Relative Position and Scale

Using the darkFunction to ORX Converter Addin for The Gimp to Extract Guides for Configuration

Stand Alone Application Localization Scene Loading and Animation Interaction, Control and Physics

The Clipboard Drag and Drop

Fun with Text and Shaders orxFontGen

Using compressed textures on the iPad

Timelines / Tracks Command and Timeline Notes

The Orx Profiler orxFontGen Using the Inkscape SVG to ORX Converter Using the TMX to ORX Converter Using the darkFunction to ORX Converter Using SWIG to talk to Java on Android

Using ImGui with Orx File Dialogs and Messageboxes Mouser over effect for buttons

Viewport & Camera Heads Up Display (HUD) using Viewport + Groups Teleporting on Screen Edges

Building the Orx library with Visual Studio 2015/2017 Setting up Visual Studio (win) or Codelite (linux) Stand Alone Application

Compiling Orx with mingw32/gmake Building the Orx library with Visual Studio 2015/2017 Setting up Visual Studio (win) or Codelite (linux)

Xcode4 Scroll, Console-less, Resources Building the Orx Library with Xcode on Mac OS X