[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 6 ■ The Foundation of Game Design: The JavaFX Scene Graph and the InvinciBagel Game Infrastructure
Finally, let’s do the same thing for the image-compositing plate, that is, the ImageView that will hold the different
Image objects containing the alpha channel (transparency) values that will create an overlay of panel images for the
InvinciBagel splash screen artwork (which was created by the talented 2D artist Patrick Harrington):
instructionLayer = new Image("/invincibagelinstruct.png", 640, 400, true, false, true);
splashScreenTextArea = new ImageView();
splashScreenTextArea.setImage(instructionLayer); // this Java statement connects the two objects
As Figure 6-7 demonstrates, your Scene Graph node creation (seen at the top of the InvinciBagel class) and the
Node object instantiation and configuration (seen in the createSplashScreenNodes() method) are in place and error
free. You still need to add in the Image objects for the other two screens, but there is enough code here to be able to
add these Node objects to the Scene Graph, using the addNodesToStackPane() method, and then test the code to
make sure that it is working. According to the NetBeans IDE, this code is error free!
Figure 6-7. Coding the createSplashScreenNodes() method; instantiating and configuring the nodes in the Scene Graph
Next, let’s add the Node objects to the StackPane Scene Graph root object in an addNodesToStackPane() method.
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