October Updates

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[kornalius]

Ok, here we go I changed my mind again (for the 4th time).

Sprite's physic will be handled internally. I got it all working, it's not perfect physic but it's quite good.

New sprite's features:

- SpeedX, SpeedY
- Direction, Velocity (Sets SpeedX, SpeedY)
- Weight (self explanatory)
- Friction (collision friction)
- Elasticity (rebound factor)
- Loop (when past edge of screen appears on the other side).
- FirstFrame (first animation frame sequence to loop from)
- LastFrame (last animation frame sequence)

Game world features:

- Gravity
- Friction

The next build will include a few demos:

- Simple2_1.ppl
- StarField.ppl
- StarField2.ppl
- Bounce.ppl (physic demo)

There will be a new package manager program included as well.

A new InputBox() function has been added to the Windows.ppl library.

Try / Except has been implemented.

And of course many other fixes.

[kornalius]

Oups I forgot:

- PIXEL PERFECT COLLISION DETECTION!!!

[sponge]

kornalius: When is this coming out? This is nearly perfect for making a good platformer like Mario and Commander Keen, and I'm really anxious to take a crack at it! The most intensive coding would probably be in scrolling the screen around.

I don't understand your definition of friction in PPL - can it be tuned to slide more or less depending on the surface?

[kornalius]

Sponge: Yes, friction is just like reallife friction. The less friction, the "slidier" it is.

Scrolling is just a matter of setting SetOrigins() and make the main sprite non-scollable using SETSPRITESCROLL().

I will implement layers for the next build. This way you can assign multiple sprites to the same layer number and then just hide the layer or show it, scroll it...

[kornalius]

Oh, almost forgot, the new version is now available!

[sponge]

Erm... where? :)

That scroll layers sounds awesome, parallax scrolling should be a snap.

[edit] Doh there it is - the dat ewasn't updated on the HTML is all.

[edit2] PPL seems broke in Windows Server 2003 - I only see the little progress bar in the bottom right for a moment, and then it's gone. If I load PPL IDE with the proper path, that freezes up too.

[edit3] Same thing on my XP comp too :\ Digging into the XP error report, it looks like an access violation error, code is 0xc0000005

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