Patchnotes

Index

• Start of the Engine
  • 0.0.0
    • 0.0.1 (19/11/13)
    • 0.0.2 (20/11/13)
    • 0.0.3 (24/11/13)
    • 0.0.4 (02/12/13)
  • 0.1.0 (13/12/13)
    • 0.1.1 (17/12/13)

Patches

[19/11/2013] 0.0.1

• Initial version of the engine;
• From now on we'll record patch notes;
• The official repository is now also protected and people can start forking and improve the engine;

[20/11/2013] 0.0.2

• The GLM classes and functions have been embedded in the engine;
  • Math functions can be found in the Helpers/Math.h file;
  • Typedefs have been made for portability reasons and should be available everywhere.
    • It is recommanded not to use any members of vector and matrices besides the data related members (e.g. x, y, z, w, ...)
• Code reviews have been applied.
• Camera Culling has now been implemented and can be used.
• Components can be enabled/disabled;
• First version of the colission system, the beginning of the physics part of the engine, has been implemented!

[24/11/2013] 0.0.3

• Further implementation of OOBB - Circle collision;
• Improved implementation of the Object and Basescene class
  • Tags, Groups and Names can now be used;
  • More easy and flexible ways to reach objects/childs;
• (2D) Culling system debugged and improved;
• Implementation of the UserInterface system:
  • Lots of predefined classes that are easily extendable;
  • Custom cursor defined globally or per scene, interactive with the UISystem;
• Bugfix for Swipe Gesture + made it customizable;
• Font colors work (again) and sprites can now be multiplied with a color;
• StarEngine has now a Quit function that can be used to exit the application;
• Logger::Log replaces ASSERT from now on;

[02/12/2013] 0.0.4

• Culling bugfixes are solved;
• Action System has been implemented. A new and easy way to extend your objects on runtime;
  • Several base classes provided and 2 ready-to-use actions (timed fade and move);
• Template implementations have been moved to inline files;
• AudioManager has gotten several new functionalties;
• Some small bug fixes for sound on Android;
• The Stopwatch System has been improved and has gotten new functionality;
• Bug fixes related to the reading of files;
• As an introduction scene the user can now use both the SlideScene and SplashScreen;
• A lot of bugfixes related to the text, which is now more accurate and correct;
• Logs are now logged by default with the [GAME] tag, logs from engine use the [STARENGINE] tag;
• Bugfix related to the UISlider;
• GameData Helper class has been added and can be used to quickly load/save game data;

[13/12/2013] 0.1.0

• Spritebatching has been optimized and depth sorting works;
• Debug Drawing functionalities work properly and are always on top;
• Text rendering has been optimized;
• UISystem has been improved:
  • All constructors are now consistent related to the name of an image;
  • Scaling of buttons now get taken into account for their hitregion check;
• GarbageSystem for the SceneManager and Object has been debugged and improved;
• Every entity can now be destroy itself correctly;
• First comments have been added;
• Dictionary now also has an equal_range function;
• SafeDelete has been debugged and now works properly;
• TiledScene has been implemented and tested succesfully;
• Culling of UI Objects has been debugged and works properly now;
• Hotfixes for both colliders and the audiomanager have been applied;
• Object now has functionality to disable, freeze and set the visibility of all children;
• UIElement now has the functionality to disable the UI functionality of all children;
• UISlider has been improved:
  • The slider can now have an offset;
  • The alignment of the slider can be set to satisfy personal preferences;
  • The centerpoint of the slider can be adepted;
  • The range of the slider can now be changed both in the positive and negative direction;
• First tick timer bug has been resolved;
• Objects can now be mirrored;
• Safety for adding of components have been implemented, you can only add 1 graphics component per object;
• Collision callback now also has the colliding object's pointer as a parameter;
• Debug drawing of collision components has been improved and increased in functionality;

[17/12/2013] 0.1.1

• Hotfixes for the CameraComponent, PosTexShader and Cursor input;
• TiledScene now has build-in functionallity to extend tiles;
• UIElements can now be rotated correctly (#58);
• Code has been improved by removing duplicate code and unused header files;
• UIElements pressed-lock bug has been resolved (#78);
• UIElements now all have build-in debugDrawing for debugging purposes;
• CameraComponent now uses world values and has a custom Translate function;
• TimedScaleAction and DelayedFramesAction have been added to the list of build-in action classes;
• Hotfix for culling of object has been applied;
• BaseCamera and CameraComponent have both a ScreenToWorld function;
• 2D Cross product has been added to the Math library;
• TextComponent, SpriteComponent and SpriteSheetComponent now have comments;
• SpritesheetComponent has been renamed to SpriteSheetComponent;
• UIElement::SetSelectCallback has been renamed to UIElement::SetReleaseCallback;
• UISlider::SetSelectedCallback has been renamed to UISlider::SetReleasedCallback;
• XMLFileParser now has the function ReadOrCreate;
• Helper Read function now all have a safe version with a no crash guarantee;