Sakura Engine

[Antidote]

Most of the depends (other than SFML) are compiled into Sakura, and anything linux specific is ifdef'd

 

Also

Console Get:

[Antidote]

It's official, the console is complete (well nearly) So here is a peak at it

[Crownjo]

Wow you are working hard on it. I never seen someone make good progress like this for a long time. Could it be?

[mzxrules]

You should probably cap the framerate somehow so not to waste gpu drawing frames nobody will ever see

[Crownjo]

What's a good framerate cap for ALTTP?

[Antidote]

The framerate can be capped in the console, It's set using a CVar.

The reason i have the framerate so high is so i can quickly tell when something has gone awry with something, the first thing to take a hit will be the framerate.

[Antidote]

UPDATE:

Map support is being worked on right now. It's about 50% (more like 48.somerandomnumberhere%)  buuuuutttttt

 

 

 

 

 

Don't go getting too excited though, this is ONLY the collision data, nothing else. However everything is currently getting loaded and it just needs to be accessed, a vertex list created, and displayed.

[Crownjo]

That's good progress.  I like watching games in the making but it's really cool to see stuff like this.

[Antidote]

Figured out why loading tiles was so fucking slow, turns out the way I was loading tiles before was causing 3 dereferences. Which, as some of you programming gurus may know, is slooooowwww >.>

 

[Crownjo]

I believe in yoooooooou!

 

Are you gonna make a video of Link's basic gameplay such as movement? I am really interested to see it compared to the SNES game.

[Antidote]

Maybe soon, right now i'm concentrating on tools.

[DarthDub]

What category would you consider this? It's just right under the veil of Chuck Norris when it comes to awesomeness. (Whatever the heck that means)

[Crownjo]

What category would you consider this? It's just right under the veil of Chuck Norris when it comes to awesomeness. (Whatever the heck that means)

 

I suppose you could put it at that! I think Antidote's goal is to make it the best ALttP engine while keeping it simple and close to the original as possible.

[DarthDub]

 

What category would you consider this? It's just right under the veil of Chuck Norris when it comes to awesomeness. (Whatever the heck that means)

 

I suppose you could put it at that! I think Antidote's goal is to make it the best ALttP engine while keeping it simple and close to the original as possible.

 

If it has Four Swords elements in it, like the Roc's Cape and stuff, then it'll be the ultimate engine ever.

[Crownjo]

 

 

What category would you consider this? It's just right under the veil of Chuck Norris when it comes to awesomeness. (Whatever the heck that means)

 

I suppose you could put it at that! I think Antidote's goal is to make it the best ALttP engine while keeping it simple and close to the original as possible.

 

If it has Four Swords elements in it, like the Roc's Cape and stuff, then it'll be the ultimate engine ever.

 

 

It would. But I would rather have it be 100% ALttP for now. Then we can go for the crazy stuff.

[Antidote]

Ultimately the engine will be 100% moddable including character sprites.

Custom animations, custom maps, tiles, everything.

I've been working on getting my site back up, so i'll be posting progress reports there as well, and all releases will be uploaded there.

[Crownjo]

Will the sprites be png files? that way they are crisp, clear and easy to edit. With this engine I have two games in mind.

 

Oh yeah will we be able to add new items?

[Antidote]

Yes, everything will be PNG, but SFML supports a whole host of formats natively so if you try one chances are it's supported.

IIRC the only unsupported raster format is GIF, but i could be wrong.

[Crownjo]

If widescreen is possible then the second game idea would work great.

[Antidote]

That largely depends on the users configuration.

[Crownjo]

I can see this engine do alot of wonderful things since its 100% moddable. I would love to do a PC version of ALttP first then another game that takes advantage of the sakura engine. Sounds good?

[Strati]

I think that's the whole point of making an engine, ain't it?

[Antidote]

Been working on this today as well as working on Sakura's documentation

This format gives me complete flexibility, but it requires me to rewrite the Animated Sprite class, however that was planned anyway.

If anyone has any use for it, the format is released under GPLv3, so please feel free to use it.

//--------------------------------------
//--- 010 Editor v5.0 Binary Template
//
// File:
// Author:
// Revision:
// Purpose:
//--------------------------------------
 
typedef enum <byte> { zFalse, zTrue } bool;
 
enum <byte> Direction
{
    North,
    South,
    East,
    West
};
 
struct Texture
{
    string Filename; // Relative to fs_basepath
    bool preload;
};
 
struct Frame
{
    float XOffset; // Relative to the offset specified in the header
    float YOffset; // ^
    float TextureX;
    float TextureY;
    int   Width;
    int   Height;
    float FrameTime;
    bool  FlippedH;
    bool  FlippedV;
};
    
struct Part
{
    string Name;
    int    TextureId;
    int    FrameCount;
    bool   HasCollision;
    Frame  Frames[FrameCount];
};
 
struct Sprite
{
    string    Name;
    Direction Dir;
    byte      PartCount;
    byte      StateCount;
    byte      StateTextureId[StateCount];
    Part      Parts[PartCount] <optimize = false>;
};
 
struct
{
    int   Magic <format = hex>;
    int   Version;
    short TextureCount;
    int   Width;
    int   Height;
    float OriginX;
    float OriginY;
    short SpriteCount;
    int   Reserved1;
 
    if (TextureCount > 0)
        Texture Textures[TextureCount] <optimize = false>;
 
    if (SpriteCount > 0)
        Sprite Sprites[SpriteCount] <optimize = false>;
}file;