Load resources without utiLITI

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-06-25 17:21:29
User: Maddin [] (age: 867 days 🙌; posts: 2)}
Hey Forum!
I'm getting to know the Litiengine for a good while now and i really dig it!
But i don't want to depend on utiLITI and the game.litidata to import my resources. It says in the documentation, that the engine is usable without utiLITI, but i can't quite figure it out.
So, how would i achieve that?
(The deeper reason behind is, that i want to experiment with auto-generating maps)
Thank you in advance!
(Grüße aus Hamburg)

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-06-30 10:42:24
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
Moin moin,
sorry for letting you wait!
If you have your resource folders properly defined on the build path, it's usually as simple as calling ResourcesContainer.get() - just the way it works if the resources are part of the ResourcesBundle. For Spritesheets, you need to call Resources.spritesheets().load(...) first, since Spritesheets are not an ordinary resource, but a wrapper for images.
Assume the following file structure:

 ├MyGameRootFolder
 ├misc
 | ├cursor.png
 | └icons
 | ├heart.png
 | └coin.png
 ├spritesheets
 | ├wario-walk-left.png
 | ├wario-walk-up.png
 | └wario-walk-down.png
 └sounds
 ├waaaaaaaaaaaah.ogg
 └waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.wav````
You can load the different resource types with the following approach:
```java 
BufferedImage cursor= Resources.images().get("cursor.png");
 Icon heart = new ImageIcon(Resources.images().get("icons/heart.png"));
 Icon coin = new ImageIcon(Resources.images().get("icons/coin.png"));
 Sound wah1 = Resources.sounds().get("waaaaaaaaaaaah.ogg");
 Sound wah2 = Resources.sounds().get("waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.wav");
 Spritesheet walk_up = Resources.spritesheets().load("wario-walk-up.png", 64, 64);
 Spritesheet walk_down = Resources.spritesheets().load("wario-walk-down.png", 64, 64);
 Spritesheet walk_left = Resources.spritesheets().load("wario-walk-left.png", 64, 64);

The other resource types behave similarly.
Does this help you?
p.S.: You can also load Resources with plain Java and then explicitly add them to the Respective ResourcesContainer, but the approach described above is preferable.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-06-30 17:50:00
User: Maddin [] (age: 867 days 🙌; posts: 2)}
nightm4re Yes, thank you, this helped a lot!