Writing a better 2D engine. (Phoenix 2D Game Engine)

[Robert Kosek]

Andreaz, try Jupiter CMS. You might find it handy and saves you time so you don't have to code one.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to fooling around with a release.

[Andreaz]

Andreaz, try Jupiter CMS. You might find it handy and saves you time so you don't have to code one.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to fooling around with a release.

Good idea, here it is, not that much content through

http://phoenix.glxtreem.net/index.php

[Robert Kosek]

Bingo, looks good to me. And since it has a built in forum, it's pretty handy I thought. (Too bad my sites are established, and so cannot migrate without... difficulty to say the least.)

[jdarling]

I started playing with some Phoenix images I had on my system and came up with the following:

[WILL]

Cool. Kinda reminds me of the FireFox/Thunderbird logos though.

[jdarling]

Actually its a modification of http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/multi...d=2&image_id=2 removing Mars from the background and modifying the saturation points a bit. Now that you mention it, it does look like the fox on the globe .

What I think would look really good for this project is something like; A phoenixish broad line on a compass (think shape, not full image) with the four corners pointed out. The head of the phoenix could makeup the top point, with the other 3 comming from the compass wheel.

Now if I could only figure out what is going on with the frigging texture loader and why it won't work at all. I can't get it to work with any project that I build, with our without the scripting stuff. So I'm obviously doing something wrong as the Sprites demo works fine when I compile it .

[jdarling]

Ok, so now I've figured out how to re-produce the problem EVERY time. Create a project from the template, or copy paste the code below. If you create an image before you create the font the system will die, if you create the font then the image everything works fine. I don't know enough about the loading code to say what the problem is, but I know its a problem

[pascal]{
Phoenix Demo
}
program Texture;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

uses
{$IFDEF UNIX}{$IFDEF UseCThreads}
cthreads,
{$ENDIF}{$ENDIF}
Classes,
{ add your units here }
dglOpenGL,

sysutils,

phxClasses, phxFonts,
phxImages,

phxScreen;

var
Screen: TPHXScreen;
Img : TPHXImage;
Font : TPHXFont;
begin
// Create the window
Screen:= TPHXScreen.Create('Phoenix Texture', 100, 100, 800, 600);

// Open the window
if not Screen.Open then Exit;
// Doesn't work if the image code is here
//{
img := TPHXImage.Create;
img.LoadImage('test.bmp');
//}
Font:=TPHXFont.Create;
Font.LoadFont(ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)) + 'Arial16.phfnt');
// Works if the image code is here
{
img := TPHXImage.Create;
img.LoadImage('test.bmp');
//}

repeat
// Clear the window
Screen.Clear();

// ... do the rendering here ...
img.Draw(0, 0);
Font.TextOut(5, 5, 'Testing the font engine', clrWhite);

// Flip the buffers
Screen.Flip();

until (Screen.Visible = False);
Screen.Free;
Font.Free;
img.Free;
end.[/pascal]

[Robert Kosek]

Uh, Jeremy? That's because if you don't create the object you're loading something into nothing... hence the problem. You always ought to create/initialize the object prior to loading data into it. Hehe. :lol:

[jdarling]

Actually, the highlighter is screwed up for pascal. Take a look at the comment blocking system, its being created. The code works fine in one instance and not in the other. By taking advantage of the pascal comment types you can use things like //{ //} to optionally comment out code. Course an IFDEF would be more appropriate, but I started doing this so long ago and just have never changed when its only testing

[Andreaz]

Works both ways for me, but then i have a new version of the texture loader so it may be because of that...