What's happened in last years?
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| Hi blitz guys, I didn't spent so much time on blitz in last (two) year(s).. Someone that can tell me what I missed meanwhile? new Libraries? new Wrappers? new Mark Sibly? new ide? I'd like to use again blitz3d, Please help me to fill the gap, thanks:) |
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| a couple of patch updates for blitz3d, but mostly blitzmax bug fixes and GUI in the last 2 years |
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| lots of new stuff was added to blitz (through external dlls), e.g. physics, bloomfx, stencil shadows, DDS-Support, ... |
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| bloomfx? how do we do that? and is there any good cast/receive shadowsystem? |
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| Swifts Shadow System - probably the best and easiest to implement - it does static shadows, animated meshes (B3d), simple circles and you can blur them a little if you want. There is also a "Flex" shadow system in the archives by Rob Farley which is pretty neat. Devils Shadows seem pretty good too, but doesn't do animated B3d as far as I know. IPete2. |
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| Ah thanks for the info Pete! Well i noticed that Devils Shadows system is a bit slow. It looks great tough. I have searched for Swifts Shadow System but i cannot find it really. Do you maybe know where to get a demo? |
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| - Andreyman Ashadow System (DOF+water+Blur+Bloom+Shadows+etc...) - Ultrafast image by MixailV - Ultrafast text (unicode) by MixailV - Devilchild Libs (take a look at his web)... Lot of free libs to do a lot of stuff (shadows, physics, Guis...) - SpriteCandy - EasyTok (physics wrapper by Filax) - .... and a lot of cool things more that I'm forgetting! :P However, Taking a look at this I guess you'll be happy during long time. regards! |
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| cool! SpriteCandy looks awesome. and the Andreyman Ashadow System to. im impressed by Devilchild Libs to, but they are slow right? at least i think his shadow system is very slow. Is Andreyman Ashadow system faster? |
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| Hiya there BitmaniaK! Long time no see - yeah we all just got older! Lol! What have you been up to then? IPete2. |
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| Hi Ipete :) I'm daddy now...I have a lovely daughter, Giulia, born on July... She takes my time 100% when I'm at home. She is the best "thing" I can desire and the best "project" I've done :) |
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| Thanks a lot for your help. So: SHADOW SYSTEM: Andreyman Ashadow System Devil Shadow System Swifts Shadow System PARTICLE SYSTEM: Devil Particle System SPRITE SYSTEM: SpriteCandy Ultrafast image by MixailV PHYSICS: EasyTok (physics wrapper by Filax) Devil Physic Engine TEXT SYSTEM: Ultrafast text (unicode) by MixailV GUI: Devil GUI I'd like to receive also Links, Features/Votes, price (freeware or not) and type of software (dll, blitzcode, c/c++ wrapper etc). And any other software I miss (BTW). It will be nice that somewhere, someone show a web page with informations about tools and review :) |
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| A full featured rapid GUI is still missing i thought :( (need full text-field with Selection). Maybe one with FastText 1.21 and FastImage 1.4.34 libs could speed up the whole process ? Rewriting every GUI should be possible i supposed. The very last i see from another engine is called Toi : http://www.toi3d.com/ Huge set of features |
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