What is SpriteTools?
In short, SpriteTools is a C header that works on top of sf2d to add some powerful tools for rendering sprites on screen.
As of 2.2, it adds:
- Easier/more readable input detection
- Spritesheets loaded from C files (sf2d) and image files (sfil)
- Animations made from spritesheets
- Entities that can be given animations and other properties
- Cameras that can be used to modify how entities are rendered in various ways
- A basic debugger that allows developers to view inputs, memory usage, and the values of up to 64 variables
- Text color things
- Time tracking so you can get how long it's been since your program started
- A nice splash screen to show your support for the project
What's to come:
- Rooms (levels) that store cameras and entities so you can store them together for easier switching
- Collision between entities and background objects
- Audio for sound effects and music
- Save files for games (really just adding higher level options for file management)
- Particle effects
- Wii U exporting support
Where can I get it?
Here's a link to the Github page.
Here's a link to the releases page.
Here's a link to the tutorial I wrote. It's geared at beginners, so you should be good to go even if you haven't programmed much or at all in the past.
NOTE: The tutorial only gets updated for official releases, not Pre-releases (such as Betas). If you want to read all of the release notes for the pre-releases, go ahead and use them. If you just want to download and use the tutorial, stick to the official releases.
How can I stay up-to-date?
Here's the official Twitter account.
Here's the Trello Board with the future plans.
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