Character animation (#87)

* Added Sprite Sheet (#85)

* Added Sprite Sheet

Added a sprite sheet for the sample character and a data sheet to reference it's animation cycle

* Wrote the SpriteSheet class, which will hold information about a sprite sheet.

* Added XML (#86)

Added a sprite sheet for the sample character and a data sheet to reference it's animation cycle

* Added XML

* Wrote the ComponentRenderer

* Moving around an information class, working on layers.

* Moved a bunch of things.

* Working on cleaner deserialization.

* Sprite sheet reader now functional.

* Switching to the new rendering system.

* Plenty of work on the animated texture system.

* Fixing animation system bugs. Fixed the 1st.

* Fixed a invisibility bug in the animation framework.

* Added an FPS counter, disproved that bad FPS was the cause of my issues.

* Fixed the error that caused creatures to not transition smoothly between tiles.

* Fixed a memory leak.

* Tweaked the FPS of the walking animations.

* Many code tweaks.

Assets/Graphics/Characters/Base model/BaseCharacterData.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<tilemap tileswide="3" tileshigh="4" tilewidth="64" tileheight="64">
+  <layer number="0" name="Layer 0">
+    <tile x="0" y="0" tile="0" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="1" y="0" tile="1" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="2" y="0" tile="2" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="0" y="1" tile="3" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="1" y="1" tile="4" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="2" y="1" tile="5" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="0" y="2" tile="6" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="1" y="2" tile="7" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="2" y="2" tile="8" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="0" y="3" tile="9" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="1" y="3" tile="10" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+    <tile x="2" y="3" tile="11" rot="0" flipX="false"/>
+  </layer>
+</tilemap>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SneakyTactician  <[email protected]>
 * Job system is now client side
 * Job system now has enhanced support for dependencies
 * Job system now has enhanced support for "bound" (same worker) jobs
+* Graphics API reworked to support animations, as well as any future different types of rendering
 
 #### Server
 * The newgame command now requires a 3rd parameter, the world's name
@@ -26,12 +27,16 @@ SneakyTactician  <[email protected]>
 * Stone rubble texture has been replaced
 * Pickaxe icon in map when tile is queue up to be mined has changed
 * Added the ability to zoom in
+* Characters now have new texture
+* Characters now have animations
 
 #### Sound
 
 #### Bugs
 
 * Fixed a mining command bug
+* Fixed a memory Leak
+
 ---
 
 ## [Version 0.0.9]
@@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ SneakyTactician  <[email protected]>
 * Added internal support for sfx/sound events
 
 #### Server
-* Seperated server loading and server starting into two seperate commands
+* Separated server loading and server starting into two separate commands
 * Now handles player connections and disconnections in a safer way
 
 #### GUI

EarthWithMagic.sln

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ EndProject
 Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "MagicalLifeDedicatedServer", "MagicalLifeDedicatedServer\MagicalLifeDedicatedServer.csproj", "{38385939-AFA9-44AA-9291-20F48EBFE8E9}"
 EndProject
 Global
+	GlobalSection(Performance) = preSolution
+		HasPerformanceSessions = true
+	EndGlobalSection
 	GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
 		Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
 		Debug|x64 = Debug|x64

MagicalLifeAPI/Asset/AssetManager.cs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using MagicalLifeAPI.Error.InternalExceptions;
 using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 namespace MagicalLifeAPI.Asset

MagicalLifeAPI/Asset/TextureLoader.cs

@@ -17,6 +17,35 @@ public class TextureLoader : IGameLoader
 
         private readonly ContentManager Manager;
 
+        public static readonly string GUIListBoxItemBackground = "GUI/ListBoxItemBackground";
+        public static readonly string GUIPickaxeButtonGold = "GUI/PickaxeButton_Gold";
+        public static readonly string GUIPickaxeButtonGrey = "GUI/PickaxeButton_Grey";
+        public static readonly string GUICursorCarrot = "GUI/CursorCarrot";
+        public static readonly string GUIInputBox100x50 = "GUI/InputBox100x50";
+        public static readonly string GUIMenuBackground = "GUI/MenuBackground";
+        public static readonly string GUIMenuButton = "GUI/MenuButton";
+        public static readonly string GUIPickaxeMapIcon = "GUI/PickaxeMapIcon";
+
+        public static readonly string TextureDirt1 = "Textures/Tile/Dirt_01";
+        public static readonly string TextureDirt2 = "Textures/Tile/Dirt_02";
+        public static readonly string TextureGrass1 = "Textures/Tile/Grass_01";
+        public static readonly string TextureGrass2 = "Textures/Tile/Grass_02";
+        public static readonly string TextureGrass3 = "Textures/Tile/Grass_03";
+        public static readonly string TextureGrass4 = "Textures/Tile/Grass_04";
+        public static readonly string TextureStone1 = "Textures/Resource/Stone_01";
+        public static readonly string TextureStone2 = "Textures/Resource/Stone_02";
+        public static readonly string TextureStoneRubble1 = "Textures/Items/StoneRubble_01";
+        public static readonly string TextureStoneRubble2 = "Textures/Items/StoneRubble_02";
+        public static readonly string TextureTestTile = "Textures/Tile/TestTile";
+
+        public static readonly string FontMainMenuFont12x = "Fonts/MainMenuFont12x";
+        public static readonly string FontMainMenuFont24x = "Fonts/MainMenuFont24x";
+
+        public static readonly string LogoFMOD = "Logo/FMODLogo";
+        public static readonly string LogoMonoGame = "Logo/MonoGameLogo";
+
+        public static readonly string AnimationBaseCharacter = "Character/Base Character/BaseCharacterSprite";
+
         public TextureLoader(ContentManager manager)
         {
             this.Manager = manager;
@@ -29,40 +58,32 @@ public TextureLoader()
 
         private void Prepare()
         {
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("Basic Human");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("CursorCarrot");
-
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("MenuBackground");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("MenuButton");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("InputBox100x50");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("GUI/ListBoxItemBackground");
-
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("Stone");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("StoneRubble_01");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("StoneRubble_02");
-
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("TestTile");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("Dirt");
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("Character/Character");
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIListBoxItemBackground);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIPickaxeButtonGold);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIPickaxeButtonGrey);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUICursorCarrot);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIInputBox100x50);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIMenuBackground);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIMenuButton);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(GUIPickaxeMapIcon);
 
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans1");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans2");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans3");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans4");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans5");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans6");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans7");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans8");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans9");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans10");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans11");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("DirtGrassTrans12");
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureDirt1);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureDirt2);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureGrass1);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureGrass2);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureGrass3);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureGrass4);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureStone1);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureStone2);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureStoneRubble1);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureStoneRubble2);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(TextureTestTile);
 
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("Grass");
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(LogoFMOD);
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(LogoMonoGame);
 
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("GUI/PickaxeButton_Grey");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("GUI/PickaxeButton_Gold");
-            this.TexturesToLoad.Add("PickaxeMapIcon");
-
+            this.TexturesToLoad.Add(AnimationBaseCharacter);
         }
 
         public void InitialStartup()