Some functionality I'd like to see in SDL 1.3
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Some functionality I'd like to see in SDL 1.3
by nfries88
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I mentioned this first one on the mailing list, but i'll mention it again here: rotozoom.
I can see where many multimedia applications may want to resize, zoom in on, or rotate a texture. For example, a media player could create some decent looking effects by rotating and recoloring the same image several times, and it becomes inefficient to create a new texture for each case. An image editor would also need some functions to rotate, resize, or zoom an image or selected area. 2D games might want to resize sprites to better fit the user's monitor, etc. There's already a library that implements this, SDL_gfx, but I know that OpenGL has easy ways to do this implemented in its API (and most likely DirectDraw does as well, though I've never actually touched it), so in the case of SDL 1.3 it would probably be better to add it as a part of the main library rather than relying on a third-party library to provide this support. The second one has been mentioned in another thread, and in fact that topic reminded me it wasn't there: render to texture. Pretty much any application could benefit from render to texture. A perfect example would be an image editing program capable of having multiple images split up in the same window. It would be much easier to treat those images as separate textures and render modifications to them than it would be to split them into different textures once it's time to save the files. Any 2D game could benefit by separating the rendering of the game area itself and the rendering of its UI. Sure, rendering them in a specific order instead would resolve the need for this, but it'd be much more convenient if the developer didn't have to do that. The third one is support for DirectX XInput devices (IE, the Xbox 360 controller for Windows controller). I'm aware that this is only useful to the windows version (and since I can't seem to find any xinput headers or libraries for mingw, I'm guessing only for the Visual C build target), and maybe on Unixes with winelib (does Wine support DirectX XInput yet?), and only in a specific case, but it'd be handy for game developers who don't want to write separate code to check for that in their programs. _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list SDL@... http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Re: Some functionality I'd like to see in SDL 1.3
by Kenneth Bull
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Re: Some functionality I'd like to see in SDL 1.3
by Simon Roby
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Re: Some functionality I'd like to see in SDL 1.3
by nfries88
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Judging from their msdn reference it didnt sound like it, but I also hadn't tried. If it does work like that, then disregard that request. _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list SDL@... http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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