I have recently added UTF-8 strings decoding and the possibility to display Unicode glyphs. You just have to select the glyphs you want to export with one of the many AngelCode's Bitmap Font tools.
nCine Dev Update 15
You can read the the #15 development update, with the progress from April to the first half of May 2020, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2020-07-14-ncine-dev-update-15/.
Some of the highlights:
JugiMap SpriteTimelineAnimation demo
The nCine version of the third JugiMap Framework demo by Jugilus have been uploaded on GitHub.
You will find the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation and the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation-data repositories for you to build the test.
You will also find the same demo among the web-tests.
Release 2020.05
A new release has been just finalised: nCine 2020.05.
Some of its highlights are covered by the following video:
For a more detailed list of changes and improvements you can refer to the Release 2020.05 page. Don't forget to check the updated DoxyGen documentation and the Lua API functions list.
Custom Memory Allocators
After quite some time I'm now nearly done with the introduction of custom memory allocators support. It required a big overhaul of my custom containers as well, as they didn't clearly separate the allocation phase from object construction.
Now that most of the work is done I can celebrate with a short video that explains the four types of memory allocators supported by the nCine: Linear, Stack, Pool and FreeList.
nCine Dev Update 14
You can read the the #14 development update, with the progress from the second half of December 2019 to the first half of March 2020, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2020-03-23-ncine-dev-update-14//.
Some of the highlights:
SpookyGhost, a procedural sprite animation tool made with the nCine
Yesterday I published SpookyGhost, a tool that lets you animate multiple sprites in a procedural way.
It is based on the nCine, meaning it is coded in C++, it uses ImGui, and it would potentially run on all the engine supported platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and Emscripten.
At the moment you can download a demo for Windows and macOS. It has no limitations, you can find it on Itch.io.
Some of the tool features are: [ul]
nCine Dev Update 13
You can read the the #13 development update, with the progress from the second half of September to the first half of December 2019, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2019-12-24-ncine-dev-update-13/.
Some of the highlights: