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SGE 0.16 Released

Item posted by Layla Marchant <onpon4> on Tue 03 Feb 2015 02:55:12 PM UTC.

Version 0.16 of the SGE Game Engine is out, and it's got quite a few improvements, and removals. Most of this is a result of my work on the game I'm developing. Changes to this new release of the SGE include the following:

Added direct support for copying sprites, including a sge.Sprite.copy() method and support for the standard copy module. This was already possible in the past, but cumbersome to write.

Added support for creating sprites from text. Mainly added for the benefit of the new MenuItem widget added to xsge.gui, but can be useful for other things as well.

New methods added to sge.Sprite: mirror, flip, and rotate. These methods allow you to transform a sprite directly, rather than depending on the image_xscale, image_yscale, and image_rotation attributes of objects. (Actual scaling was already achievable by changing the size of the sprite.)

Alignment of text is now specified by the strings "left", "right", "center", "up", "down", and "middle", rather than special constants.

sge.Game.event_game_start and sge.Game.event_game_end have been removed. Both of these were superfluous, because you can just do what you would have done in them before and after sge.game.start() anyway.

The xrepeat and yrepeat attributes of sge.BackgroundLayer have been changed to repeat_left, repeat_right, repeat_up, and repeat_down. This is much more flexible. Additionally, the default behavior is now to not repeat a background layer at all, rather than to repeat it in all directions.

sge.Room.start no longer restarts the room. It now does what sge.Room.resume used to do, and the latter has been removed. I decided to do this because I was facing a bug which was causing some kind of ghost objects to stay behind, and I realized that rather than trying to get room resetting to work properly, I could just get rid of the feature, because the same effect can be achieved easily enough by just creating a new room in the same way. See the updated pong.py for an example of how to do this.

sge.Game.start no longer has a secondary function of restarting the game. Just start sge.game.start_room; it has the same effect, more or less.

Several bugs in the Pygame SGE have been fixed.

Coinciding with this new release of the SGE is a new release of xSGE. Read more about it here:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8201