I have clicked every Google result I could find that might help me with no success.
I have built a game that I would like to implement a full UI with. In my game I have separate classes for my sprites, so while doing several tutorials for making screens I tried to implement something where I could use those separate classes for getting textures, current frames, etc.
I have gotten to the point where I can switch between two screens if they are not referring to anything outside themselves, but whenever I try to reference my sprite class on the game screen, it crashes, pointing me to this in the game class:
if (screen != null) screen.render(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime());
So here is the code I am using (minus any implemented methods or other stuff that is default for a class).
Tutorial.java:
public class Tutorial extends Game {
MainMenuScreen mainMenuScreen ;
AnotherScreen anotherScreen;
Player player ;
@Override
public void create() {
mainMenuScreen = new MainMenuScreen(this);
anotherScreen = new AnotherScreen(this);
setScreen(mainMenuScreen);
}
}
MainMenuScreen.java (problem is here in the batch):
public class MainMenuScreen implements Screen {
Tutorial game ;
SpriteBatch batch ;
Player player ;
Texture test ;
public MainMenuScreen(Tutorial game){
this.game = game;
}
@Override
public void render(float delta) {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(1, 1, 1, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL30.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
batch.begin();
batch.draw(player.playerTexture, 200, 200); // error points to here
batch.end();
}
}
AnotherScreen.java (runs fine):
public class AnotherScreen implements Screen {
Tutorial game ;
SpriteBatch batch ;
Texture test ;
public AnotherScreen(Tutorial game){
this.game = game;
}
@Override
public void render(float delta) {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(1, 1, 1, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL30.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
batch.begin();
batch.draw(test, 0, 200);
batch.end();
}
@Override
public void show() {
batch = new SpriteBatch();
test = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("badlogic.jpg"));
}
}
Player.java:
public class Player {
Texture playerTexture ;
Vector2 position;
String textureLoc;
public Player(Vector2 position, String textureLoc){
//What I am trying to get from AnotherScreen.java
playerTexture = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("badlogic.jpg"));
}
public Texture getPlayerTexture() {
return playerTexture;
}
public void setPlayerTexture(Texture playerTexture) {
this.playerTexture = playerTexture;
}
}
The exact error in the console is:
Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.tutorial.MainMenuScreen.render(MainMenuScreen.java:25)
at com.badlogic.gdx.Game.render(Game.java:46)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:206)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:114)
what am I doing wrong? I have rearranged the code putting everything in different places but I just can't get it to work. Thank you for your time!
I have discovered that if I open MainMenuScreen, then go to AnotherScreen and try to get a texture from Main to show in Another, it works if I have Tutorial get the texture before passing it to Another. This does not work with Player though...