On 20 May 2011, at 20:35, CIB wrote: > I just recently got to removing the more annoying glitches from my renderer, > and sure enough, it works. I also added a FPS counter and realized that I was > rendering at far higher speeds than I need(according to time() I was > rendering at 300 FPS, but my clock might be a bit off). So by slowing down > the thing a bit, I can now render at 30 FPS with low CPU usage, and even PNG > alpha transparency becomes viable at a good speed! > > And a quick note on what I'm working on: It's basically a 2d renderer that > handles all the low-level stuff for you and offers you a high-level > interface. Rather than manually blitting every sprite every frame, you just > add a bunch of objects and do operations on them. I seriously think that game > programmers shouldn't have to write their own renderer for every single 2d > game, but I also couldn't find any good and lightweight rendering libraries > out there that also had GUI integration. Well, that problem's solved :) > > Anyway, I'm thinking about releasing this code under a permissive open source > license. Much of the code is focused around an FLTK widget, so it should be > straightforward to integrate with an FLTK program. I currently use a wrapper > for the images, which provide the Fl_Image functionality in an abstract > way(that way you can use the same interface to work with e.g. SDL), but since > the pure FLTK renderer is fast enough, I might just use Fl_Image instead.
Sounds interesting - links welcomed; You could add it to the fltk links bazaar pages too, if you think it might be interesting to passers by! _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
