General

• Introduction
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Roadmap
• Release notes

Basics

• Getting Started
  • Install JDK
  • Set Up IDE
  • Build Systems
  • Project Structure
  • Get LITIENGINE
  • Manage native libraries
  • Run the Game
  • API Quick Reference
• Game API
  • Game.graphics()
  • Game.audio()
  • Game.physics()
  • Game.loop()
  • Game.tweens()
  • Game.world()
  • Game.window()
  • Game.screens()
• Input API
  • Input.keyboard()
  • Input.mouse()
  • Input.gamepads()
• Configuration
• Tile Maps
  • Map Objects
  • Custom Properties
• Resource Management
  • Texture Atlas
  • Sprite Info Files
• Entity Framework
  • Default Entity Types
  • Props
  • Subscribe to Entity Events
  • Annotations for static information
• Control Entities
  • Entity Controllers
  • Animation Controller
  • Movement Controller
  • Behavior Controller
  • Messaging System
  • Ability Framework
• User Interface
  • GuiComponents: An Overview
  • Creating Menus
• utiLITI
  • Create Projects
  • Import maps
• Deployment
• Savegames
• Libraries and Tools
• Glossary

Advanced

• The Particle System
• Dynamic Lighting
• Static Lighting
• Performance Optimization
• Custom MapObjectLoaders
• String Localization
• Object Serialization
• Utility Classes
• Network Communication
• Advanced Entity Knowledge
  • Custom Entity Implementations
  • Triggers

Tutorials

• Creating a Simple Platformer
• Creating an Arkanoid Clone
• Modifying example projects

Resource Management

The static Resources class is the engine’s entry point for accessing any kind of resource from within your LITIENGINE project. A resource is any non-executable data that is deployed with your game. The Resources class provides access to different types of ResourcesContainers and is used by different (loading) mechanisms to make resources available during runtime. LITIENGINE supports various different resource types, including:

• images
• fonts
• maps
• (localizable) strings
• spritesheets
• sounds

Resource Containers

ResourcesContainer is an abstract implementation for all classes that contain a certain resource type. Basically, it’s an in-memory cache of the resources and provides access to manage the resources.

Internally, the resources are stored in a ConcurrentHashMap where the keys are String identifiers and the values are your individual resource objects.

There are various overloads for ResourcesContainer.add(...) and ResourcesContainer.get(...), allowing you to adjust these operations to your needs. All the ResourcesContainer‘s contents and its listeneres can be discarded with ResourcesContainer.clear().

Listeners

You can register ResourcesContainerListeners with addContainerListener(ResourcesContainerListener<T> listener) to get notified whenever a resource was added to or removed from your ResourcesContainer. Removing listeners works analogically with removeContainerListener(ResourcesContainerListener<T> listener)

Resource Folders

Images

Spritesheets

Sounds

Maps

Strings

Fonts

Blueprints

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