What's happened in last years?

Hi blitz guys, I didn't spent so much time on blitz in last (two) year(s)..
Someone that can tell me what I missed meanwhile?

new Libraries?
new Wrappers?
new Mark Sibly?
new ide?

I'd like to use again blitz3d,
Please help me to fill the gap, thanks:)

a couple of patch updates for blitz3d,
but mostly blitzmax bug fixes and GUI in the last 2 years

lots of new stuff was added to blitz (through external dlls), e.g. physics, bloomfx, stencil shadows, DDS-Support, ...

bloomfx? how do we do that?
and is there any good cast/receive shadowsystem?

Swifts Shadow System - probably the best and easiest to implement - it does static shadows, animated meshes (B3d), simple circles and you can blur them a little if you want.

There is also a "Flex" shadow system in the archives by Rob Farley which is pretty neat.

Devils Shadows seem pretty good too, but doesn't do animated B3d as far as I know.


IPete2.

Ah thanks for the info Pete! Well i noticed that Devils Shadows system is a bit slow. It looks great tough. I have searched for Swifts Shadow System but i cannot find it really. Do you maybe know where to get a demo?

- Andreyman Ashadow System (DOF+water+Blur+Bloom+Shadows+etc...)
- Ultrafast image by MixailV
- Ultrafast text (unicode) by MixailV
- Devilchild Libs (take a look at his web)... Lot of free libs to do a lot of stuff (shadows, physics, Guis...)
- SpriteCandy
- EasyTok (physics wrapper by Filax)
- ....

and a lot of cool things more that I'm forgetting! :P
However, Taking a look at this I guess you'll be happy during long time.

regards!

cool! SpriteCandy looks awesome. and the Andreyman Ashadow System to. im impressed by Devilchild Libs to, but they are slow right? at least i think his shadow system is very slow. Is Andreyman Ashadow system faster?

Hiya there BitmaniaK!

Long time no see - yeah we all just got older! Lol!

What have you been up to then?

IPete2.

Hi Ipete :)
I'm daddy now...I have a lovely daughter, Giulia, born on July...
She takes my time 100% when I'm at home.

She is the best "thing" I can desire and the best "project" I've done :)

Thanks a lot for your help.

So:

SHADOW SYSTEM:
Andreyman Ashadow System
Devil Shadow System
Swifts Shadow System

PARTICLE SYSTEM:
Devil Particle System

SPRITE SYSTEM:
SpriteCandy
Ultrafast image by MixailV

PHYSICS:
EasyTok (physics wrapper by Filax)
Devil Physic Engine

TEXT SYSTEM:
Ultrafast text (unicode) by MixailV

GUI:
Devil GUI

I'd like to receive also Links, Features/Votes, price (freeware or not) and type of software (dll, blitzcode, c/c++ wrapper etc).
And any other software I miss (BTW).
It will be nice that somewhere, someone show a web page with informations about tools and review :)

A full featured rapid GUI is still missing i thought :(
(need full text-field with Selection).

Maybe one with FastText 1.21 and FastImage 1.4.34 libs could speed up the whole process ?
Rewriting every GUI should be possible i supposed.

The very last i see from another engine is called Toi :
http://www.toi3d.com/
Huge set of features