A few ideas I am toying with

Hey. I am currently toying around with a few ideas I have for extensions. I would like for people to tell me which ideas they like the best, and which they are most interested in seeing.

A) Tile extension. This extension would support a map format exported by a tile editor such as Mappy, and would enable the creation of real tile based games based on a tile sheet. It would have a number of algorithms that would simplify tile based games. Possible expansions for this concept would include extensions to simplify the creation of hexagon based, triangle based, or isometric based grids.

B) Vector graphics. This extension would support the SVG format and would allow people to use "vector sprites" in games. Not sure how fast this would be, and I might wait to see if MMF 2 gets hardware acceleration.

C) A new script extension. I have an idea for an extension based on squirrel, which is a language with c++ like concepts. It is object oriented but loosly typed. It would basically be a more powerful version of Lua with a better sytnax and SDK bindings. (So it would be able to draw directly to the MMF 2 surface through a script for example).

I would appreciate feedback on which ideas people would like to see.

Thanks.

I personally would like to see a Tile Extension. :D

I prefer B and C (SVG support and C++ like script extension) since we already can do the tile extension with some MMF2 lines of "code". :)

B) SVG support could be great and maybe a filter can be made too (of course SVG will be converted into bitmap but it could be useful too for using with all extensions).

C) A C++ oriented script object could be great too since it could be possible to draw directly to the MMF 2 surface (and a lot other stuff with SDK binding) :)

Did you see my Tiled Background extension? Nobody seemed to like it (Or much willing to test it back then) so I didn't add much new to it..

I'm not aware about your extension Andos. Is it available on Neatwares ? If so, I'll try it soon. :)

Ah so you made that. Yes, I was aware of it's existance but I was not aware who made it. I thought it was one of the ideas that had been lost, becuase I hadn't seen new developments on it for quite some time.

Vortex2 how is the physics extension coming along?

That's Neatwares' Extensions List for you, Mister! [grin]

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Originally Posted by LIJI

That's Neatwares' Extensions List for you, Mister! [grin]

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Can you explain that comment? I can't access Neatwares' extension list.

The physics extension is coming a long fairly well. I am just not posting anything about it until I am happy with the demo.