Kraken Engine v0.0.8

🧣What's New☕

Highlights

• 7 new mouse functions!
• Ability to load separate frames in a folder as an animation with loadFolder
• kn::Anchor enum for blitting using positions instead of rects
• TMX object tile types are now supported
• Rotated tiles and objects are now supported

Bug fixes

• Repair window gtest
• TileMap's internal texture pointer turned to unique ptr for safe memory
• Texture re-loading properly implemented

Other

• Added the camera global vector to the docs' Things To Know page
• TileMap, Sound, and Font class constructors are now loader functions
• kn::Vec2 objects now support cout operations
• Simplified Rect getters and setters

Kraken Engine v0.0.7

⛄What's New🍪

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Highlights

• The ability to bind several input actions is back with a new and modular syntax. You can find usage examples here.
• Latest YouTube video introducing programmers to the Meson build system is now in the documentation's Tutorials page.
• Documentation has a Things To Know page for getting to know important meanings behind constants. This page will grow as more features get added to Kraken.
• There are now color constants via the kn::color namespace.

Bug fixes

• Not necessarily a bug, but the pre-commit formatting action doesn't target the example folder anymore.

Other

• Rewind an animation to the beginning with kn::AnimationController::rewind.
• Controller button constants for game input (kn::C_*).
• Get the currently pressed controller button with kn::controller::isPressed.
• kn::Vec2::getAngle for getting the angle of a vector relative to the positive x-axis.
• The f11 key now has a default behavior to toggle fullscreen.
• kn::Vec2::angleOfDifference is longer a method for vectors.

Kraken Engine v0.0.6

❄️What's New 🎁

Highlights

• SUPPORT FOR GAME CONTROLLERS!
• kn::AnimationController allows for different animations to have their own fps with a general playback speed.
• Documentation's "Contributing" column is now filled with everything you need to know to contribute.
• The kn::input namespace has been split into kn::mouse, kn::key, and kn::controller.

Bug fixes

• kn::getTicks now works as intended

Other

• Event polling is done through a while loop instead of a for loop over a vector. Example
• The visual quality of the documentation has been improvement with category drop-downs.
• Common events like clicking the window's close button and plugging/unplugging a controller is now handled automatically.
• Remove animations from an AnimationController object with removeAnim.
• isFinished method for the animation controller to see when an animation is over.

Kraken Engine v0.0.5

🎄 What's New 🎅

• kn::TileMap constructor now has a borderSize parameter for loading tile sets with gaps around each tile.
• Updated Installation content to prevent DLLs from being made after meson compile.
• The PugiXML library is now a wrap package instead of in the source files.
• kn::Layer objects now have an isVisible attribute, meaning they won't be drawn in a drawMap method call.
• kn::math::Vec2 now has operator overloads for -=, /=, and *=.
• Most of the documented API now have introductory descriptions and example usages.
• getMouseButtonPressed is now isMouseButtonPressed.
• getKeysPressed is now isKeyPressed.
• kn::Texture lost a few unnecessary methods.
• kn::time namespace now has a getTicks method to get the amount of time since kn::window::init was called, in seconds.

Bug fixes

• kn::math::Vec2::rotate[Rad] methods have been corrected.
• Fullscreen display mode is back to "true" fullscreen due to mouse cursor position imprecision.

Kraken Engine v0.0.4

🦃 What's New 🍂

• Fitted kn::Rect colliders for accurate tile collisions via the kn::Tile::collider attribute.
• kn::Rect::clamp method for keeping a rectangle within another.
• kn::Tile objects now have a pointer to the kn::Layer they're in.
  • Especially useful for checking if a tile is in a certain layer before handling collisions.
• kn::TileMap::getTileCollection method to get a collection vector of tiles across several tile map layers.
• kn::window::blitEx functions have been removed.
  • angle and flip traits are now part of kn::Texture as public members.
• Textures no longer technically render when the draw position is outside of the window.
• kn::math::Vec2 now supports the <, >, <=, and >= operators.

Bug fixes

• Fix tile map rendering due to how unordered hash-maps store data.
• Rendering is now integer-based due to upscaled rendering having sub-pixel visual artifacts.
• Dragging the window for extended periods of time no longer results in a large delta time afterwards.
  • This comes at the cost of delta time not functioning as intended for refresh rates below 30fps.

Kraken Engine v0.0.3

What's new

• Updated way to load and draw animations from sprite sheets
• kn::window::setIcon to load an image file to be used as the window icon
  • Window has a default kraken logo icon
• New kn::draw functions:
  • line to draw a line between two points
  • point to draw a single pixel onto the screen
  • circle to draw a circle onto the screen

Bug Fixes

• Fix kn::draw::rect function linker error
• Mouse position would not be at the right place when kn::camera isn't zero

Kraken Engine v0.0.2

What's new

• Introductory tutorial in documentation site
• Global camera vector
• Animation controller for sprite sheet textures
• Re-enabled unit tests (#25)
• New way of loading textures via kn::Texture::loadFromFile

Bug Fixes

• Fix tile map loading bug
• Fix kn::window::blitEx rendering artifact
• Not really a bug, but made all kn::Rect getters const

Co-author: @oddbookworm

0.0.1

Pre-release test to add Kraken Engine to the meson wrapdb database!