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[Dr. Cooldude]

This particular font renders a little fuzzy and you have some options as far as font rendering strength options, but normally things look very good.

If you're not too busy right now, could you show an example with Arial? I'm interested in this.

[Ivan]

Here you go:

Two examples with anti-aliasing enabled and disabled.

[CDLegasse]

This looks really promising. I'd love to give it a spin and see what kind of cool things can be done with it.

[Thomas Finch]

I can't wait to try this out.

[Dr. Cooldude]

Here you go:

Two examples with anti-aliasing enabled and disabled.

Looks great!

[jctwood]

Wow this looks brilliant, does it work on any iOS devices?

[Trystin]

Looking great!

[Ivan]

Wow this looks brilliant, does it work on any iOS devices?

Currently no, but there are plans to port and make exporters for iOS, Android and OUYA in the near future.

One question: do all the libraries/frameworks need to be imported into your game? I'm thinking about a 2D platformer thing, but I've had a lot of annoyances with Box2D before, and I prefer to write my own physics. That said, do you provide collisions without Box2D so you can write your own physics code? I saw you're writing a space-metroidvania-etc. platformer game with Polycode. Are you using Box2D for that?

There is a Box2D-based 2d physics/collision library bundled with Polycode that plugs directly into its entity system to automatically simulate physics and provide collision callbacks. Outside of it, Polycode has no real collision detection built in. I find that Box2D physics are good enough for platformers if you lock rotation and set the masses real low (all stuff thats easy to setup in Polycode). That said, you can easily add your own code. In C++ you can do whatever you want, naturally and on the Lua side, there is a module system where you can setup and load C++ libraries dynamically and bundle them with your app.

[Ivan]

I've kind of been purposely keeping Polycode abstract from any kind of game-specific code. I actually don't even call it a game engine (outside of these forums) because I dont' want to limit people's thinking in what it can be used for. (I actually mostly use it for large-scale installations and 3d stuff myself). So adding in platformer collision code is too game-specific for me and if adding generic non-game optimized collisions seems like a waste of time when Box2D can provide collisions already (there is a way in Polycode to just use it for collision tracking without any physics). I feel that the 2d and 3d physics/collisions libraries that are a part of Polycode do a good job of walking the line between specificity and generic function, and if you want to do anything more specific, you should implement it yourself.

Maybe I can get Adam to port Flixel to it

[JMickle]

if game libraries can be ported to it like that, i would be a very happy person.

are there any functions for file loading/saving?

[JigxorAndy]

I've been really interested in Polycode for a long time but I've never really gotten into trying it. The new editor and features sound really exciting! I'll definitely keep it in mind for my next project.

Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!

[Ivan]

 

are there any functions for file loading/saving?

Polycode has an Object class that's basically a nested data tree which you can save/load to/from XML or binary formats. A lot of Polyode's binary files like 2d entities and sprites use this system.

[Quarry]

Alexanderpine try to merge your posts

Also Ivan, this is some crazy progress. Are you planning to get it out as a commercial solution?

[Ivan]

Alexanderpine try to merge your posts

Also Ivan, this is some crazy progress. Are you planning to get it out as a commercial solution?

Oops, didn't see your question before. No, it will always be free and opensource, but it's going to be my main project for many years to come and hopefully others will join me to make it a tool worthy of competing with commercial engines.

Also, here's a shot of the code editor in the Polycode IDE:

[Code_Assassin]

snip

If this ever goes into a private beta, pick me 

The editor looks awesome. Is there a full-screen option for the Polycode IDE? If not is it possible you can make one?

[kamac]

sexy IDE

Whoah. How did you manage to write GUI for such colored editbox for your IDE? Again, you wrote it yourself with OpenGL only?

Whoah.

The editor looks awesome. Is there a full-screen option for the Polycode IDE? If not is it possible you can make one?

Stupid question. Name one thing Ivan can't do.

 

[Impmaster]

When do you think this will be available to us?

[hidingspot]

Just wanted to say this looks really cool.  An open source alternative to Unity is indeed greatly needed.  From what I've read, I really like the approach you've taken with the editor/library in general (except I'll have to learn to like lua ).  Thanks for sharing all your hard work.  I can't wait!

When do you think this will be available to us?

Last I heard, the release date is feb 1st.

[Ivan]

Feb 1st if the tentative date, yes. My schedule is always in a little bit of a flux, so it's hard to promise exact dates (a mistake that I already twice made . All I can say is that it's getting really close to where I want it for first release and I will release it as soon as I can.

[kinifi]

This looks better and better. Way to go Ivan! I can't wait to see it.