Version 1.9
October 11th 2011
By Richard Davey, Photon Storm
The Flixel Power Tools are a package of classes designed to provide extra functionality to your Flixel 2.5+ games.
Unzip the file photonstorm.zip into the following folder within your Flixel project:
src/org/flixel/plugin
It should create a folder called photonstorm containing all of the tools. The final
directory structure of your project should be:
src/org/flixel/plugin/photonstorm
and within the photonstorm folder you'll find all the classes listed below.
Now read the Getting Started Guide in the Doc folder. It contains important information that will help you compile!
Dev branch users:
I don't keep the zip file as up to date as the src in the Test Suite. So ignore the above and instead copy the photonstorm folder out of:
Test Suite/src/org/flixel/plugin
to your Flixel plugin folder
There is a comprehensive Getting Started Guide in both Word and PDF format in the Docs folder.
Documentation is also provided built-in to the classes. AS3 IDEs such as FlashDevelop will provide context-sensitive help for all classes and functions in the Flixel Power Tools.
Finally check out the home page at http://www.photonstorm.com/flixel-power-tools for updates.
The Flixel Power Tools come with a comprehensive Demo Suite. Use it to visually see the tools in action, and then learn from the source code and comments within.
To run the Demo Suite launch the following SWF:
Test Suite/bin/FlixelPowerTools.swf
If you don't have Flash Player installed locally then open index.html in a browser.
The following classes are currently in the Flixel Power Tools:
- FlxBar
- FlxBitmapFont
- FlxButtonPlus
- FlxCollision
- FlxColor
- FlxControl (includes FlxControlHandler)
- FlxCoreUtils
- FlxDelay
- FlxDisplay
- FlxExtendedSprite
- FlxFlod (includes FlxFlectrum)
- FlxGradient
- FlxGridOverlay
- FlxLinkedGroup
- FlxMath
- FlxMouseControl
- FlxScreenGrab
- FlxScrollingText
- FlxScrollZone
- FlxSpecialFX
- FlxVelocity
- FlxWeapon
APIs Include
- FlxKongregate
Special FX Includes
- BlurFX
- CenterSlideFX
- FloodFillFX
- GlitchFX
- PlasmaFX
- RainbowLineFX
- RevealFX
- SineWaveFX
- StarfieldFX
If you'd like to add a new class to the package, or a function into an exisiting class then please feel free. Be sure to checkout the dev branch first however!
If you'd just like to request a specific class or function then leave me a message on either the Flixel Power Tools project page or the Flixel Forums
As the Flixel Power Tools are changing rapidly I have split them into two branches: master and dev.
Dev contains the "bleeding edge" classes (aka might not compile). Once they are stable I merge with "master".
Unless you are extremely curious, or helping out with the project, you should pretty much always checkout from master.
Please add them to the Issue Tracker with as much info as possible.
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