FlatRedBall
  • 🖥️Downloading FlatRedBall
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    • Linking Games to FlatRedBall Engine Source
    • Linking FNA
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  • ✨FlatRedBall Features
  • 🎓Tutorials
    • Introduction To FlatRedBall
    • Quick Start Guide
    • Beefball - A Full FlatRedBall Tutorial Project
      • Creating a FlatRedBall Project
      • Creating an Entity
      • Creating a Screen
      • Controlling an Entity
      • Creating the Screen Collision
      • Advanced PlayerBall Controls
      • Creating the Puck Entity
      • Adding Multiple Players
      • Scoring and Restarting Rounds
      • Scoring Hud
      • Scoring Hud Logic
      • Adding Dashing
    • Platformer Tutorials
      • Platformer Basics
        • Creating an Entity
        • Controlling a Platformer Entity
        • Movement Values
        • Double Jump
      • Checkpoint and Level End
      • Climbing Ladders
      • Doors
      • GroundCollidedAgainst and Movement Values
      • Moving Platforms
      • Multiple Players
      • NPC Dialog
      • Breaking Blocks
        • New Project Setup
        • Creating Level1 Map
        • Creating the Block Entity
        • Block Removal
      • Dealing Damage
        • New Project Setup
        • Enemy Entity
        • Shooting Bullets
        • Damaging the Enemy
      • Enemy Movement
        • New Project Setup
        • Enemy Entity
        • Enemy Input Logic
        • Detecting Platform Edges
      • Ground Type and Water Movement
        • New Project Setup
        • Creating Level1 Map
        • Adding Ice and Water
        • Platformer Movement Values
      • Animation and Platformer Values
        • New Project Setup
        • Creating AnimationLayers
        • Modifying Platformer Values
      • Wall Sliding and Jumping
    • Damage Dealing
      • Setup
      • Team Index
      • Damage Events
      • IDamageArea Removal
      • Melee Damage
    • Entity Variants Using Inheritance
    • FlatRedBall.Forms
      • Getting Started with FlatRedBall.Forms
        • Setup
        • Working with Common Controls
        • Forms vs Gum in Code
      • Forms and Xbox360GamePad
      • Data Binding (BindingContext)
        • BindingContext Property
        • Binding FlatRedBall.Forms
        • Parent and Children Binding using BindingContext
        • ListBox Templates
      • Styling Forms
      • Defining New Forms Types
        • Adding New Types to FlatRedBall.Forms Library
      • Accessing Forms Events in Gum Runtimes
    • Top Down Games
      • Top Down Basics
        • Setup
        • Input Device
        • CurrentMovement
      • Enemy Movement
        • Enemy Pathfinding
        • Direct Enemy Control
      • GroundVelocity
      • Animation
      • Sorting
    • Post Processing
    • Rock Blaster - A Full FlatRedBall Tutorial Project
      • Introduction
      • Setup
      • Game Skeleton
      • Player Entity
      • Player Behavior
      • Rock Entity
      • Collision
      • Rock States
      • HUD
      • Multiple Players
      • Health
      • Health Part 2
      • Destroying Entities
      • Cleaning Up
    • Code-Only Projects (No Editor)
      • Creating a FlatRedBall Project
      • Adding a Circle
      • Loading Textures and Using Sprites
    • Code Tutorials
      • 3D Camera Setup
      • Adding FlatRedBall to a MonoGame/FNA Project
      • Adding WPF to an Existing Game
      • async and await
      • CLR Profiler
      • Collision Jitter
      • Culling
      • Customizing Cursor Visuals
        • Windows Desktop
        • windows-rt
      • Depth Buffer Z Fighting
      • Dictionaries and Enum Keys
      • FlatRedBall XNA in Windows Form
      • Improving Performance
        • CustomActivity Performance
        • Identifying Screen Creation Performance Issues
        • Rendering Performance
        • Manually Updated Objects
          • Introduction
          • Measuring Automatic Updates
          • Measuring Sprite Automatic Updates
          • Manual Particle Systems
      • Object Sorting
      • Pix
      • Rendering Sprites with Shaders
      • Tile-Based Movement
      • Velocity
    • Distribution
      • App Icon
      • Emptying bin Folder Using Probing Path
      • itch.io
      • Release Build
      • Steam
    • FlatRedBall and Velcro Physics
      • Using Velcro Physics with the FlatRedBall Editor
      • Code-Only Velcro Projects
    • FlatRedBall Editor Plugins
      • Introduction to FlatRedBall Plugins
      • Creating a Plugin Project
      • Creating a Plugin Class
      • Adding UI to FlatRedBall
      • Using MVVM
      • Creating a NamedObjectSave-Editing Plugin
      • Adding File Format Support
      • Adding Code Files to a Game Project
      • Errors
      • Exporting a Plugin
    • Additional FlatRedBall Editor Tutorials
      • How to Create a First Person Camera
      • How to Play Sounds
      • How to Share Reference Data Between Screens and Entities
    • Math Tutorials
      • Circle Collision
      • Determining required magnitude for trajectory
      • Introduction to Collision
      • Power of Two
      • Rectangle Collision
      • rotation
      • statistics
      • trigonometry
      • vector
      • matrix
      • interpolation
    • Overworld Tutorials
      • Spinning Mode 7
        • New Project Setup
        • Adding Camera Code
        • Fading In and Out
  • 🎞️Videos
  • 📐FlatRedBall Editor
    • Display Settings
    • Entities
      • BaseEntity
      • Constructor
      • ConvertToManuallyUpdated
      • CreatedByOtherEntities
      • CustomActivity
      • CustomDestroy
      • CustomInitialize
      • Destroying Entities
      • Entity Performance
      • Export Entity
      • Implements IClickable
      • Implements ICollidable
      • Implements IDamageArea
      • Implements IDrawableBatch
      • Implements IGumCollidable
      • Implements IVisible
      • Implements IWindow
        • SlideOnClick
      • Import Entity
      • Inheriting from FlatRedBall Types
      • LayerProvidedByContainer
      • MoveToLayer
      • PooledByFactory
      • Top Down Movement
        • TopDownSpeedMultiplier
      • Use Global Content
    • Events
      • ResolutionRrOrientationChanged
    • Factories
      • CreateNew
      • EntitySpawned
      • Initialize
      • SortAxis
    • Files
      • File Types
        • Animation Chain List (.achx)
        • Comma Separated Values (.csv)
          • Combining .csvs With Entities
          • CreatesDictionary
          • Cross Referencing CSVs
          • Instantiating Custom Types
          • OrderedList
          • SetCreatedClass
            • generate-data-class
          • uniformrowtype
        • Effect (.fx, .fxb)
        • Font (.fnt)
        • JSON (.json)
        • Model (.fbx)
        • MP3
        • Node Network (.nntx)
        • OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods)
        • ShapeCollections (.shcx)
        • SplineList (.splx)
        • Texture2D (.png)
        • Wave (.wav)
      • Accessing Files in Code
      • Adding File Objects to Managers
      • Destroy on Unload
      • File Build Tool
      • Folders
      • Global Content Files
      • IsDatabaseForLocalizing
      • IsManuallyUpdated
      • IncludeDirectoryRelativeToContainer
      • LoadedAtRuntime
      • LoadedOnlyWhenReferenced
      • Name
      • Platform Inclusions
      • Project Specific Files
      • RuntimeType
      • SourceFile
      • UseContentPipeline
      • Wildcard Files
    • FileVersion (.gluj)
    • Generated Code
    • Global Content Files
      • LoadAsynchronously
      • Reload
      • Setting Files At Runtime
    • Live Edit
      • Render Targets
    • Menu
      • Content
        • Additional Content
          • Using Runtime Types as Objects
          • creating-runtime-objects
          • runtime-object-charateristics
          • simple-line-of-text-tutorial
        • Introduction
        • pipeline-settings
      • File
        • New Project
      • Edit
        • Find File References
      • Plugins
        • Install Plugin
        • Manage Plugins
      • Project
        • View Projects
      • Settings
        • Camera Settings
        • File Associations
        • File Build Tools
        • Performance Settings
      • Update
        • Introduction
        • glue-reference-menu-frbdk
        • glue-reference-menu-libraries
    • Multi-Platform
      • Synced Projects
      • Changing Main Project Type
      • Android
        • Distribution
        • Setup
      • iOS
        • Certificates and Profiles
        • Copying Projects to Mac
        • Using Xamarin Build Host
      • Switch (Nintendo)
      • Web
    • Objects
      • Object Types
        • AxisAlignedRectangle
        • Camera
        • CameraControllingEntity
        • Circle
        • CollisionRelationship
        • Layer
          • DestinationRectangle
          • Is2D
        • Polygon
        • PositionedObjectList
        • RenderTarget2D
        • ShapeCollection
        • SoundEffectInstance
        • Sprite
        • Text
        • TileNodeNetwork
      • AddToManagers
      • AttachToCamera
      • AttachToContainer
      • CallActivity
      • Collidable Objects
      • EntireFile
      • ExposedInDerived
      • HasPublicProperty
      • IgnoresPausing
      • IncludeInIClickable
      • IncludeInICollidable
      • IsContainer
      • LayerOn
      • Map
      • SetByDerived
      • SourceFile
      • SourceType
    • Plugins
      • glue-gluevault-component-pages-rendertargetrenderer
      • glue-gluevault-component-pages-simple-command-console
      • glue-gluevault-component-pages-squid-gui-integration
      • kalldrexx-interactive-debugging-console
    • Profiling
    • Screens
      • AsyncLoadingState
      • BaseScreen
      • Constructor
      • Creating a New Screen
      • CustomDestroy
      • CustomInitialize
      • DefaultLayer
      • GameScreen
      • IsActivityFinished
      • IsLoadingScreen
      • LoadStaticContent
      • MoveToScreen
      • PauseAdjustedCurrentTime
      • Set as StartUp Screen
      • UnloadsContentManagerWhenDestroyed
    • States
      • InterpolateToState
      • InterpolateToState vs InterpolateBetween
      • State Categories
      • State Classes
      • States and Inheritance
      • Tunneling Category Variables
    • Variables
      • CreatesEvent
      • HasAccompanyingVelocityProperty
      • IsShared
      • Proper Variable Naming
      • SetByDerived
      • Type
      • Variable Order
    • Visual Studio Project (.csproj)
  • 🏃Animation Editor
    • Frame Time
    • Animation Shapes and Collision
  • Tiled
    • Tiled Basics
      • Introduction
      • Creating a GameScreen
      • Adding Collision
      • Colliding Entities Against TileShapeCollections
      • Working with Multiple Levels
      • Creating Entities from Tiles
      • Creating Entities from Object Layers
      • Accessing Tiled Properties
      • Working with Tiled Shapes
    • Tiled Files in Entities
    • TileEntityInstantiator
    • Using TiledObjects.Generated.xml
    • LayeredTileMap
      • Collisions
      • Destroy
      • FromTiledMapSave
      • Z
    • MapDrawableBatch
      • AddTile
      • CoordinateAdjustment
      • GetBottomLeftWorldCoordinateForOrderedTile
      • MergeOntoThis
      • NamedTileOrderedIndexes
      • PaintTile
      • PaintTileTextureCoordinates
      • ParallaxX
      • Paste
      • Properties
      • RemoveQuads
      • RenderingScale
      • SortAxis
    • TiledMapSave
    • TileShapeCollection
      • AddCollisionAtWorld
      • AddCollisionFrom
      • AddCollisionFromTilesWithProperty
      • AddMergedCollisionFromLayer
      • AddMergedCollisionFromTilesWithProperty
      • AdjustRepositionDirectionsOnAddAndRemove
      • CollideAgainst
      • CollideAgainstClosest
      • GetRectangleAtPosition
      • InsertCollidables
      • LastCollisionAxisAlignedRectangles
      • Rectangles
      • RemoveFromManagers
      • RemoveSurroundedCollision
  • 🟩Gum
    • Tutorials
      • Introduction and Setup
      • Screens in Gum
      • Gum Objects in Code
      • Events on Gum Objects
      • Events on Gum Objects Part 2
      • Exposed Variables
      • States
      • Adding Code to Gum Objects
    • Accessing Gum Screens in Code
    • Adding Components to Layers
    • Adding Gum Screens to FlatRedBall
    • Animations in Code
    • Components in FlatRedBall Entities
    • Converting Gum Coordinates
    • Creating Components in Code
    • GraphicalUiElement as IWindow
    • Gum Resolution
    • Gum Properties Tab
    • Gum Animations
      • How to Play Gum Screen Animations
      • Named Events
      • Setting Gum Animationchain Achx in Code
  • 🦴Spine
    • Setup
    • Atlas
    • Changing Spine Textures at Runtime
    • SpineDrawableBatch
      • Event
      • PlayAnimation
      • SetCollision
      • Skeleton
  • ⏸️Aseprite
    • AnimationChainList
  • 🏫API Documentation
    • FlatRedBall Engine
      • AI
        • LineOfSight
          • VisibilityGrid
        • Pathfinding
          • PositionedNode
          • Link
            • Cost
            • NodeLinkingTo
          • NodeNetwork
            • GetPath
            • UpdateShapes
            • Visible
          • TileNodeNetwork
            • AddAndLinkTiledNode
            • AddAndLinkTiledNodeWorld
            • OccupyTileWorld
            • SetCosts
      • Audio
        • AudioManager
          • AreSoundEffectsEnabled
          • CurrentlyPlayingSong
          • MasterSongVolume
          • MasterSoundVolume
          • Play
          • PlaySong
          • PlaySongs
          • StopSong
        • PositionedSound
        • Sound
      • Camera
        • AbsoluteRightXEdge
        • AbsoluteRightXEdgeAt
        • AddLayer
        • AddSpriteToBillboard
        • AspectRatio
        • AttachTo
        • BackgroundColor
        • CameraCullMode
        • ClearMinimumsAndMaximums
        • ClearsDepthBuffer
        • DestinationRectangle
        • DrawsShapes
        • DrawsToScreen
        • DrawsWorld
        • FarClipPlane
        • FieldOfView
        • FixAspectRatioYConstant
        • ForceUpdateDependencies
        • GetViewport
        • IsSpriteInView
        • KeepSpriteInScreen
        • Layer
        • Layers
        • Main
        • MaximumX
        • Orthogonal
        • OrthogonalHeight
        • OrthogonalWidth
        • PixelsPerUnitAt
        • Position
        • PositionRandomlyInView
        • RelativeXEdgeAt
        • RemoveLayer
        • RotationMatrix
        • SetBordersAtZ
        • SetLookAtRotationMatrix
        • SetSplitScreenViewport
        • UpdateViewProjectionMatrix
        • UpVector
        • UsePixelCoordinates
        • UsePixelCoordinates3D
        • View
      • Content
        • ContentLoadBatch
        • AnimationChain
          • AnimationChainListSave
        • ContentManager
          • AddUnloadMethod
          • FileAliases
          • IsAssetLoadedByName
          • Load
          • LoadFromGlobalIfExists
          • Multiple Content Managers
        • Math
          • Geometry
            • ShapeCollectionSave
        • Polygon
          • PolygonSave
        • Scene
          • CameraSave
          • SceneSave
        • SpriteEditorScene
          • Camera
      • Debugging
        • Debugger
          • CommandLineWrite
          • GetFullPerformanceInformation
          • TextBlue
          • WriteAutomaticallyUpdatedObjectInformation
      • Entities
        • CameraControllingEntity
        • IDamageable
        • IDamageArea
      • FlatRedBallServices
        • AddDisposable
        • AddManager
        • CornerGrabbingResize
        • Draw
        • ForceClientSizeUpdates
        • Game
        • GetManagerInformation
        • GlobalContentManager
        • GraphicsOptions
        • Initialize
        • IsLoaded
        • Load
        • Owner
        • Random
        • RenderAll
        • Unload
        • Update
        • WindowHandle
      • Graphics
        • Animation
          • AnimationChain
            • Clone
            • FrameToFrame
            • TotalLength
          • AnimationChainList
          • AnimationController
          • AnimationFrame
            • RelativeX
            • ShapeCollectionSave
            • Texture
          • IAnimationChainAnimatable
            • Animate
            • Animation and Timing
            • AnimationChains
            • AnimationSpeed
            • CurrentChainName
            • CurrentFrameIndex
            • JustChangedFrame
            • JustCycled
            • UseAnimationRelativePosition
        • BitmapFont
          • BMFC File
          • BitmapCharacterInfo
          • FNT File
          • Glyphs
          • LineHeightInPixels
          • RenderToTexture2D
        • BlendOperation
        • ColorOperation
          • Add
          • Color
          • ColorTextureAlpha
          • InterpolateColor
          • Modulate
          • Texture
        • GraphicsOptions
          • Filtering
          • IsFullScreen
          • ResolutionHeight
          • SetFullScreen
          • SetResolution
          • SizeOrOrientationChanged
          • TextureFilter
          • TextureLoadingColorKey
          • UseMultisampling
        • IColorable
          • Alpha
          • BlendOperation
          • Blue
          • ColorOperation
        • IDrawableBatch
          • Z
          • RenderState
        • IVisible
          • IgnoresParentVisibility
        • Layer
          • Layer Membership Details
          • LayerCameraSettings
          • Remove
          • RenderTarget
          • SortType
          • Sprites
          • UsePixelCoordinates
        • LayerCameraSettings
          • OrthogonalWidth
          • TopDestination
        • Particle
          • EmissionSettings
            • Drag
            • PixelSize
            • ScaleX
          • Emitter
        • PostProcessing
          • SwapChain
        • RenderBreak
        • Renderer
          • Draw
          • LastFrameRenderBreakList
          • RenderBreaksAllocatedThisFrame
        • Text
          • AdjustPositionForPixelPerfectDrawing
          • ColorOperation
          • DisplayText
          • GetWidth
          • Font
          • HorizontalAlignment
          • InsertNewLines
          • MaxWidth
          • MaxWidthBehavior
          • NewLineDistance
          • NumberOfLines
          • ScaleX
          • SetColor
          • SetPixelPerfectScale
          • VerticalAlignment
          • Width
        • TextManager
          • AddManuallyUpdated
          • AddText
          • AddToLayer
          • FilterTexts
          • RemoveText
        • Texture
          • RenderTargetSprite
          • ImageData
            • ApplyColorOperation
            • Fill
            • FromTexture2D
      • Gui
        • Cursor
          • Camera
          • ClickNoSlideThreshold
          • CustomUpdate
          • GetRay
          • IngnoreInputThisFrame
          • IsInWindow
          • IsOn
          • IsOn3d
          • PrimaryClick
          • PrimaryClickNoSlide
          • PrimaryPushTime
          • ScreenX
          • SecondaryClick
          • SetControllingGamepad
          • SetJoystickControl
          • TransformationMatrix
          • WindowOver
          • WidowPushed
          • WorldPosition
          • WorldX
          • WorldXAt
          • WorldYAt
          • XForUi
        • GuiManager
          • AddDominantWindow
          • BringsClickedWindowsToFront
          • BringToFront
          • GamepadsForUiControl
          • MakeRegularWindow
          • RemoveWindow
          • SortZAndLayerBased
          • Windows
        • IClickable
        • IInputReceiver
          • IWindow
            • CallClick
            • Enabled
          • ReceiveInput
      • Input
        • AnalogButton
        • AnalogStick
          • IsMaxPositionNormalized
        • DelegateBased1DInput
        • DelegateBased2DInput
        • DelegateBasedPressableInput
        • I1DInput
        • I2DInput
        • IMouseOver
        • InputDeviceBase
        • InputManager
          • ClearAllInput
          • InputReceiver
        • IPressableInput
        • Keyboard
          • Clear
          • ControlPositionedObject
          • Get2DInput
          • GetKey
          • GetStringTyped
          • IgnoreKeyForOneFrame
          • KeyDown
          • KeyPushed
        • Mouse
          • GrabbedPositionedObject
          • IsOn3D
          • ModifyMouseState
          • Restricting Mouse to Screen Bounds
          • SetScreenPosition
        • TouchScreen
          • LastFrameGestures
          • ReadsGestures
        • Windows
          • WindowsInputEventManager
        • Xbox360GamePad
          • ButtonDown
          • ButtonMap
          • ButtonPosition vs Button
          • ButtonPushed
          • ControlPositionedObject
          • CreateDefaultButtonMap
          • Deadzone
          • DeadzoneType
          • FakeIsConnected
          • GamepadLayout
          • IgnoreButtonForOneFrame
      • Instructions
        • DelegateInstruction
        • IInstructable
          • Call
          • Cnstructions
          • Set
        • Instruction
        • InstructionList
          • ExecuteAndRemoveOrCyclePassedInstructions
        • InstructionManager
          • Add
          • AddSafe
          • Instructions
          • MoveThrough
          • MoveTo
          • MoveToAccurate
          • ObjectsIgnoringPausing
          • PauseEngine
          • Pulse
          • RotateToAccurate
        • Reflection
          • LateBinder
          • PropertyCollection
        • MethodInstruction
        • StaticMethodInstruction
      • IO
        • Csv
          • CsvHeader
          • CsvFilemanager
            • Cells with Multiple Lines
            • Color
            • CsvDeserializelist
            • Rows with Lists
          • RuntimeCsvRepresentation
            • FromList
            • GenerateCsvString
        • FileManager
          • BinarySerialize
          • CloneObject
          • FromFileText
          • GetAllFilesInDirectory
          • GetUserFolder
          • InitializeUserFolder
          • RelativeDirectory
          • SaveEmbeddedResource
          • SaveText
          • Standardize
          • UserApplicationDataForThisApplication
          • XmlDeserialize
          • XmlSerialize
      • Localization
        • LocalizationManager
      • Managers
        • IManager
      • Math
        • IAttachableRemovable
        • AttachableList
          • FindByName
          • MakeOneWay
        • Collision
          • CollisionManager
            • Relationships
            • Update
        • Geometry
          • AxisAlignedCube
            • CollideAgainstBounce
          • AxisAlignedRectangle
            • Axis Alignment And Rotation
            • CollideAgainstMoveSoft
            • Color
            • GetRandomPositionInThis
            • KeepThisInsideOf
            • LastMoveCollisionReposition
            • Left
            • RepositionDirections
          • Capsule2D
          • Circle
            • CollideAgainst
            • CollideAgainstBounce
            • CollideAgainstMove
            • IsPointInside
            • LastCollisionTangent
            • LastMoveCollisionReposition
            • ProjectParentVelocityOnLastMoveCollisionTangent
            • Visible
            • Z
          • Colliding a List of Shapes Against Itself
          • FloatRectangle
          • ICollidable
          • IScalable
            • Scale
          • Line
            • Color
            • LastCollisionPoint
            • RelativePoint1
            • SetFromAbsoluteEndpoints
          • Point
          • Polygon
            • AbsolutePointPosition
            • Clone
            • CollideAgainstBounce
            • CollideAgainstMove and Attachments
            • CollideAgainstMove
            • Color
            • CreateEquilateral
            • CreateRectangle
            • ForceUpdateDependencies
            • IsPointInside
            • LastMoveCollisionReposition
            • OptimizeRadius
            • Points
            • Position
            • ProjectParentVelocityOnLastMoveCollisionTangent
            • ScaleBy
            • Thin Polygon Problem
            • VectorFrom
            • Visible
            • Z
          • Segment
            • ClosestPointTo
          • Shape
          • ShapeCollection
            • AttachTo
            • AxisAlignedRectangles
            • CollideAgainst
            • CollideAgainstBounceWithoutSnag
            • CollideAgainstMove
            • CollideAgainstMoveWithoutSnag
            • LastCollisionAxisAlignedRectangles
            • SortAscending
            • Visible
          • ShapeManager
            • AddToLayer
            • Remove
            • ShapeDrawingOrder
          • ShapeMerger
          • Shapes and 2D Collision
          • Sphere
        • IAttachable
          • Attachment Updates in the Engine
          • Detach
          • ParentRotationChangesPosition
          • ParentRotationChangesRotation
          • TopParent
        • IRotatable
          • RotationMatrix
        • MathFunctions
          • AbsoluteToWindow
          • AngleToAngle
          • AngleToVector
          • GetPointInCircle
          • GetPositionAfterTime
          • RegulatAngle
          • RotatePointAroundPoint
          • RoundFloat
          • RoundToInt
          • WidowToAbsolute
        • Paths
          • Path
        • PositionedObjectList
          • Add
          • AttachTo
          • Clear
          • GetFirstAfter
          • GetFirstAfterPosition
          • SortXInsertionAscending
        • Splines
          • Spline
            • GetPositionAtLengthAlongSpline
      • Performance
        • Measurement
          • Section
            • GetAndStartContextAndTime
            • Save
            • ToStringVerbose
      • PositionedObject
        • Acceleration
        • AttachTo
        • Children
        • Clone
        • Drag
        • ForceUpdatedependencies
        • ForceUpdatedependenciesDeep
        • Initialize
        • KeepTrackOfReal
        • LastPosition
        • Mirrored properties
        • ParentRotationChangesPosition
        • ParentRotationChangesRotation
        • Position
        • RelativePosition
        • RelativeRotationZ
        • RelativeVelocity
        • RemoveSelfFromListsBelongingTo
        • RotationZ
        • SetRelativeFromAbsolute
        • TimedActivity
        • TopParent
        • UpdateDependencies
        • Velocity
        • Z
      • Screens
        • Screen
          • ContentManagerName
          • CustomDestroy
          • IsActivityFinished
          • MoveToScreen
          • PauseThisScreen
        • ScreenManager
          • Activity
          • CurrentScreen
          • Start
      • Sprite
        • Alpha
        • AnimateSelf
        • AnimationChains
        • AnimationSpeed
        • Bottom
        • BottomTextureCoordinate
        • Changing a Sprite's Origin
        • ColorOperation
        • CurrentChainName
        • CurrentFrameIndex
        • IgnoreAnimationChainTextureFlip
        • Inheriting from the Sprite Class
        • JustCycled
        • LeftTextureCoordinate
        • PixelSize
        • Position
        • RightTextureCoordinate
        • SetAnimationChain
        • SetScaleXRatioToY
        • Sorting and Overlapping
        • Sprite vs Texture2d
        • Texture Coordinates
        • Texture
        • TextureAddressMode
        • TextureCoordinate
        • TextureFilter
        • TextureScale
        • TimeIntoAnimation
        • TopTextureCoordinate
        • UseAnimationRelativePosition
        • Vertices
        • VerticesForDrawing
        • Visible
      • SpriteList
      • SpriteManager
        • AddDrawableBatch
        • AddManagedInvisibleSprite
        • AddManualSprite
        • AddParticleSprite
        • AddPositionedObject
        • AddSprite
        • AddToLayer
        • AddZBufferedDrawableBatch
        • AddZBufferedSprite
        • AutomaticallyUpdatedSprites
        • Camera
        • ConvertToAutomaticallyUpdated
        • ConvertToManagedInvisible
        • ConvertToManuallyUpdated
        • ConvertToZBufferedSprite
        • DrawableBatches
        • ManagedPositionedObjects
        • ManualUpdate
        • MaxParticleCount
        • MoveToBack
        • OrderedSortType
          • Z
        • OrderedSprites
        • RemoveDrawableBatch
        • RemoveLayer
        • RemovePositionedObject
        • RemoveSprite
        • RemoveSpriteOneWay
        • SortTexturesSecondary
        • SortYSpritesSecondary
        • UnderAllDrawnLayer
      • TimeManager
        • Accumulating Time
        • CurrentScreenSecondsSince
        • CurrentTime
        • Profiling
        • SecondDifference
        • SecondsSince
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  2. Beefball - A Full FlatRedBall Tutorial Project

Creating a FlatRedBall Project

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Introduction

This tutorial is an introduction to making games with FlatRedBall. It covers using the FlatRedBall Editor and writing code in C#. The FlatRedBall Editor is a program which helps with the creation and organization of game projects. We'll be exploring its features by creating a game called Beefball - a multiplayer competitive game similar to . When finished our game will have two circles, each movable with either the keyboard or an gamepad, and a smaller circle which each player can use to earn points.

Opening FlatRedBall

The first step in any game project is to open up the FlatRedBall Editor. If you've downloaded and unzipped the FRBDK.zip file, then you should already have this on your machine. Unzip the file, and double-click Run FlatRedBall.bat.

Creating a new project

Once you open the editor, you can create a new project. To create a new Project:

  1. Select File -> New Project

  2. Enter Beefball for the Project Name.

  3. Leave Desktop GL as the platform. Our game targets this platform because it is easy to debug. Creating the project for a desktop platform is recommended even if the game is intended to run on non-desktop platforms (such as Android). Additional platforms can be added at any time.

  4. Uncheck Open New Project Wizard. We'll make Beefball "from scratch".

  5. (Optional) Change the location of the project. By default the project is created in Documents\FlatRedBallProjects.

  6. Click the Create Project! button to create the project.

The latest FlatRedBall template is downloaded, so your project runs against the newest version available. Now that you've made a project, FlatRedBall remembers this and automatically open it for you next time it is started.

FlatRedBall Editor and Visual Studio

FlatRedBall Editor is a tool meant to work hand-in-hand with Visual Studio. It is not a replacement for Visual Studio, meaning you will be doing work in both Visual Studio and the editor. It is quite common to develop FlatRedBall games with both Visual Studio and the FRB Editor open at the same time.

Opening and Running your project

FlatRedBall projects automatically create a Visual Studio project too. To open the project in Visual Studio, click the Visual Studio icon as show in the following image:

FlatRedBall uses the windows default file association for your .sln file. If you would like to change this association, you can right-click on the .sln file in Windows Explorer to change the default file association.

You can also open the project in visual studio by opening the .sln file. The project folder can be opened by clicking the folder icon in the task bar. This opens the location of the .csproj file, which is one folder below the .sln file. The following animation shows how to navigate to the solution:

When you double-click the .sln file you may see a window like this:

If so you should select the version of Visual Studio that is compatible with the type of project you are running. At the time of this writing, Visual Studio 2022 Community is the most common version to use with FlatRedBall. Once Visual Studio is open, you can run your project by pressing the "start" button, or by pressing F5.

Your game should run if all prerequisites have been properly installed. You should see a blank game

Conclusion

That was easy! So far you have a fully-functional game using FlatRedBall. The next tutorial covers making our first Entity.

If you haven't yet downloaded the FRBDK.zip file, you can get it from the .

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air hockey
Run FlatRedBall batch file
File -> New Project Menu
Uncheck the New Project Wizard
Screenshot of Glue showing the Beefball project loaded with the Open Project in Visual Studio button highlighted.
Opening the Visual Studio project from disk
Application selection window
Start button in Visual Studio
Blank FlatRedBall game