Automatically including assets?

[Roméo Labonté]

Hello yes!

    Back when I started experimenting with HF, I did this to get assets in the game:

<assets path="assets">

    <image path="images/map.png" id="mapbg" />

    <sound path="sounds/qbit-sound.ogg" id="q-bit intro" />

    <text path="data/maps/maps.list" id="maps/maplist" />

    <font path="fonts/holobunnies.otf" id="fonts/holofont" />

</assets>

While this works well, the game I'm working on has grown large, and many assets need to be included. I've searched for a while but haven't been able to get an answer: is this the right way to do it? Is there a more practical way for large projects?

Thanks!

[Chase de Languillette]

i made some simple classes that can read/write json to disk.  Here is the backbone of it - i think you could maybe leverage something similar to load assets?

public static function loadRaw(filePath:String):String
{
 var path:haxe.io.Path = new haxe.io.Path(filePath);


 var previousWorkingDirectory:String = Sys.getCwd();
 Sys.setCwd(path.dir);
 var fileContent:String = File.getContent(filePath);
 Sys.setCwd(previousWorkingDirectory);


 return fileContent;
}

public static function saveRaw(json:String, filePath:String):Void
{
 var path:haxe.io.Path = new haxe.io.Path(filePath);
 sys.FileSystem.createDirectory(path.dir);


 var previousWorkingDirectory:String = Sys.getCwd();
 Sys.setCwd(path.dir);
 var fout = File.write(filePath, false);
 fout.writeString(json);
 fout.close();
 Sys.setCwd(previousWorkingDirectory);


 trace("saved file to " + filePath);
}

[Roméo Labonté]

Very useful, thanks! Although, I would probably write something that generates the lines in the XML based on the file structure though, as I could simply drop assets there and use them based on that. I was wondering if there was something built into HF before I ventured into writing my own stuff!

Thanks again!

[Ohmnivore]

I just do this:

<assets path="assets" />

then I can call FlxSprite(0, 0, "assets/images/kek.png");

or var fileContent:String = openfl.Assets.getText("assets/data/kek.txt");

[Ohmnivore]

this is my project.xml bible: http://www.openfl.org/documentation/projects/project-files/xml-format/

[Roméo Labonté]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! I feel a bit stupid for overlooking the OpenFL XML Format doc! Doh!