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By: Vlad

Vlad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:37:29 +0000

@zrb: Actually the Entity class was once called Actor. Pretty old-school But Entity evolved to more things, since it can be a pixel, a texture (animated or not) or even a particle emitter.

By: MichaelJW

MichaelJW — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:32:22 +0000

Ahh, you pass a class. I see, that makes sense now. Neat

By: zrb

zrb — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:23:15 +0000

Looks intuitive to me, I like how you used the word actor, haven’t heard/read it in game design since the last time I looked at blender 3D’s game engine.

Looks like a good engine

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:26 +0000

Thanks Yanis! And yes, it is perfectly understandable English, quite good also.

By: Yanis Benson

Yanis Benson — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:04:02 +0000

Yeah, pretty intuitive. It’s kinda what I wanted to see for a long time. (As far as I can see now.) Made some parts by myself but never linked them together in useable and intuitive way. But the parts was following the same philosophy, decomposition to logical elements and manipulating them, not some complex native.
I’m looking into porting(perhaps extending porting) it to haxe after release. Not sure if I will have time though.

P.S Sorry for my bad English, hope it’s understandable.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:27:31 +0000

Thanks guys. Let me explain the thing about idle and animation.

‘idle’ is a MovieClip in the library with the linkage defined as ‘idle’. When I tell the Texture Manager to create a texture collection from that library I have to pass a Class object. Texture Manager creates the movie clip from the class and one texture per frame. All those textures together are a texture collection and the uint that is returned is a index to that texture collection.

When I tell a entity (in this example ‘actor’ is an entity object) to loop a animation, what I’m asking to loop is the index of that texture collection. The entity and its internal classes will handle the rest and run the animation, time based, regardless of the Flash Player framerate.

I didn’t want to explain this in the post because I wanted to know if it was intuitive. Hope this explanation makes sense.

By: MichaelJW

MichaelJW — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:34:25 +0000

Awesome!

Yeah it mostly looks simple and intuitive, except what is “idle” and where does it come from? I don’t see it defined/instantiated anywhere. Some kind of MC, I guess — auto-declared, perhaps.

By: Daniel Sidhion

Daniel Sidhion — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:01:24 +0000

Hey! Good news that the engine will be released soon, I’m waiting to get my hands in it! =)
The code looks very intuitive (except the animation part. I didn’t get it yet), and seems to be simple and easy to work. Nice work!