Those using Level Director and Physics Editor

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi All,

To those who may not have known this yet.

I just thought I’d share this rather important finding.   To those of you who are using Level Director and are importing your physics bodies from Physics Editor, please note:  NEVER use underscore (_) or hyphen (-) characters in your asset filenames  (eg. crate-01.png,  crate_01.png) .  

I have searched high and low to solve the mystery of Level Director unable to find matches when importing physics from PE.  After hours of experimenting, I came to the conclusion that those characters are the culprit.  LD and PE will match assets based on asset names and will skip the “.PNG”,  “_png” part of the names.  If you happen to have either of those characters, LD will not match the physics body.  

To Retrofit Productions, this link should include this as a warning. 

http://www.retrofitproductions.com/level-director/tutorial-using-texturepacker-and-physicseditor/

I cannot find any documentation that mentions this.  Perhaps it could be addressed in future LD update?    :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Santi

#2

I recall there being problem when using hyphens and underscores but I’ll have to take another look to remind myself why…

#3

Hello! You are in fact correct, if you have an image you can never use spaces and or _ or - they just screw with the code… I personally use names like “crate011.png” and such as that.

#4

I recall there being problem when using hyphens and underscores but I’ll have to take another look to remind myself why…

#5

Hello! You are in fact correct, if you have an image you can never use spaces and or _ or - they just screw with the code… I personally use names like “crate011.png” and such as that.