Monkey 2TimelineFX not far off – Monkey 2

peterigz — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:37:32 +0000

I’ve almost finished converting TimelineFX to mx2, it’s nice to see particles moving about again! I had to write a little xml parser as none exists yet but it wasn’t too hard and does the bare minimum required to read a TimelineFX save file. I just need to go through all the libraries now and make sure they all work correctly, then I can optimise and sort docs etc.

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Tibit — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:55:43 +0000

Nice! So happy to see timeline FX. It is still my favorite 2D particle system package.

You make those effect look so good 🙂

I’ll eagerly stay tuned for the release.

Have you tried using Texture Packer in combination with timelinefx?

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peterigz — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 18:18:53 +0000

I’d like to look at using a texture packer as I’ve always thought standard sprite sheets are a bit inefficient.

I’ve been working more on it today, slowly every effect starts to look as it should 🙂 looking forward to optimising it with some of the new features in monkey2.

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Richard Betson — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:38:02 +0000

@peterigz

Will you be releasing a Linux version of TimelineFX?

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peterigz — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 17:40:18 +0000

If I ever get around to installing linux, then I’m sure I’d do that but can’t say when I’ll get around to it 🙂

I’ve got to the stage now where all effects in the example library work exactly as they should. Now to start optimising and see what I can do there, I’m sure there’s quite a few things I can do to get more performance out of it. I’ve uploaded a windows demo if anyone wants to take a look, and you can get the code to have a play with from the particles branch on github here: https://github.com/peterigz/timelinefx.monkey2/tree/particles

Loading an effects library is a bit of a pain at the moment as you have to import each asset manually – @mark, any idea when the zip module might be ready to use?

Download windows demo here

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Mark Sibly — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:18:07 +0000

@mark, any idea when the zip module might be ready to use?

Very soon!

I have a simple std.zipfile module already going, but all it can really do is ExtractZip( zipFile,dstDir ).

I’ll be adding support for extracting individual files and subdirs too, but if all you need is ExtractZip I can commit ASAP.

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peterigz — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:56:13 +0000

Great, no rush as I’ll just be spending a few weeks optimising and refining for now. Will I be able to extract a file to memory or a buffer/stream and load it from there without any actually extracting to disk? Ie., get to a png in the zip and load it via a stream somehow.

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