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SGE 1.2 Released

Item posted by Layla Marchant <onpon4> on Mon 17 Oct 2016 06:23:35 PM UTC.

A new version of the SGE has been released. This features two changes to the SGE specification:

sge.dsp.Object now supports an "image_blend_mode" attribute, which allows you to specify blend modes other than multiply to use for colorizing the image.

Sprites treated as transparently no longer implicitly use the top-right pixel as a colorkey when no transparency is found in the image. This change was made for two reasons: one, this system was really finnicky and user-unfriendly (it meant that simple image format conversions could screw up how images look in-game), and two, it caused a bug in the Pygame SGE that I couldn't fix. I think making all colorkey use explicit is ultimately the best thing to do.

Additionally, the Pygame SGE has the following changes:

The method of adjusting alpha transparency with the image_alpha attribute of objects has been tweaked. The difference is not terribly noticeable, but it's an improvement.

Fixed incorrect size calculations for sprite font text, which in particular caused some rendering bugs in xsge_gui.

Fixed a long-standing (but harmless) warning message that frequently showed up when leaving rooms.