Recent changes to feature-requests

Map music continuation

Tung Nguyen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:15:14 -0000

Currently when switching from one map to another, the map background music will restart, even if both the previous map and new map share the same music source.

If the background music source doesn't change between maps, the music should be allowed to continue.

Font.wordWrapString()

Tung Nguyen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:39:16 -0000

Font.drawTextBox() lets you draw a box of text pre-word-wrapped, but if the string is shown char-by-char, words near the right edge "jump".

A newly-proposed function:

string[] Font.wordWrapString(text)

This would take the 'text' to word wrap according to the 'font' and return an array of 'strings' representing the lines of text when word-wrapped.

Using such a function, the "word jumping" issue in char-by-char block text display could be eliminated entirely. Showing text progressively like this is still the user's responsibility, this function just helps.

Increase Spriteset frame Size from (1632) to (3232)

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:17:11 -0000

If it is possible to increase the size of a spriteset frame to (32*32) or allow the user to specify a custom size could someone tackle this in the editor?

If possible please or any updates are made please contact me at: bloody_reaver_of_judgement@yahoo.com

Upgrade to wxWidgets 2.6

Stephen James Hurd — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:28:48 -0000

wxWidgets 2.6 has been current for over a year now...
perhaps it's time to update?

Random Battles

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:21:52 -0000

how do you make random battles, like when ever your
character takes a step?

Spritesets: revert to frame not in the normal animation

Marilia Felippe — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:45:09 -0000

This addresses a problem that happens to sprites with
even-length walk cycles. By "even-length" I mean that
the number of unique frames is even. These are the ones
that have no "middle", symmetric frame which could be
used as the standing frame. This "revert" could be
scripted in the user render script if
SetPersonDirection()/SetPersonFrame() were effective on
follower entities, but they aren't (at least weren't
last time I checked). Some ideas:

- Change the "person" implementation so that followers
can be optionally "decoupled" from their leaders
animation-wise. This is quick (I've hacked my engine
before), but it might be way too flexible.

- Start animating sprites from frame 1 instead of frame
0 and reverting to frame 0. This is a quick fix, but
it's not very flexible.

- Individually reverting from one direction to another.
(Something like "SetPersonDirectionRevert(person,
old_dir, new_dir, delay)".) Add a straight-forward way
to animate non-moving entities (even input ones), and
it would be really nice!

Thanks for your attention! (And forgive me for any
stupid grammar mistakes, decent English courses
focusing on grammar are hard to find around here and
out of my budget anyway.)

Which Person's ACTIVATE_TALK script?

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:52:02 -0000

Several times when creating my game, I have come to a
situation where I want to ask "Which Person's
SCRIPT_ON_ACTIVATE_TALK script would be called if
the player pressed the action key now?" or "Which
Person's script would be called if the player pressed the
action key when his sprite was at (x,y,layer,direction)?"

If there is only 1 sprite in front of the sprite attached to
the input, this is a pretty trivial question to answer. But if
there are two, one slightly off to the side, for example,
which one would the action key trigger?

I would like to see a function to return the name of the
Person whose script would be triggered. I could script
this myself, if someone could tell me the algorithm used
to determine which Person is targetted.

Thankyou

add Midi support

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:04:21 -0000

Please make Shpere support midi songs...

to add more useful autocomplete

Alex Rosario — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:46:45 -0000

if it's possible to look at the source for dev-c++, you
could get the autocomplete code it uses & adapt it to
work for sphere.

import/export a single frame

Stephen Gold — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:24:57 -0000

Within the spriteset editor, I'd like a simple way to
import
a single frame from a PNG image file. Perhaps as an item
in the right-click menu, for instance.

It should also be possible to export a single frame to a
PNG image file.

I do most of my image creation and editing in Photoshop,
and I find it a pain to work with a complete spriteset
in Photoshop; I'd much rather work on individual frames.

Every time I export a spriteset and import it back, I have
to reestablish the properties. It is possible to
copy/paste
frames into a temporary spriteSet with only a single frame,
but this is clumsy.