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Hi all, I just re-wrote most of my Hollywood Game Framework. It's now more modular and uses OOP for purposes where it matters. I dare to say, it's the easiest way to program hardware accelerated double buffered games in Hollywood. Currently supported features: - easy game loop handling (Delta timin...

A physics engine would allow for Angry Bird like games.

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.physics (a Lua game engine) uses http://box2d.org/about/. I don't know if a C++ library can be added to Hollywood. Maybe there're alternatives.

LoadAnim: table attribute is "Frames", not "Frame"
PlayAnim: X and Y aren't optional (at least not when the animation was loaded from a png image)

Thanks.

Hi, with Hollywood 5.3 I want to load a brush such that the alpha channel is enabled if available. LoadBrush(2, self.picture, {LoadAlpha=True}) gives an error for e.g. a JPEG file. LoadBrush(2, self.picture) If GetAttribute(#BRUSH, 2, #ATTRHASALPHA) DebugPrint("!!!!alpha*****") ChangeBrush...

When I run this sample with Hollywood 5.3... @DISPLAY 1, {Color=#WHITE} SetFormStyle(#NORMAL) SetFillStyle(#FILLCOLOR) ; black bar so that we can see alpha channel better Box(50, 0, 300, 600, #BLACK) Box(0, 50, 200, 50, ARGB(100, #BLUE)) SetFormStyle(#SHADOW, #RED, 10, #SHDWSOUTHEAST) Box(0, 150, 20...

Nevermind. After another cup of coffee I found out that I must call SetFontStyle after SetFont.

Hi, this sample should show the difference between normal and antialiased fonts. Additionally I have compared both native and inbuild engine. txt = "ABCDE123" SetFontStyle(#NORMAL) SetFont("Vera Mono",130, {engine=#FONTENGINE_NATIVE}) TextOut(10, 0, txt) SetFontStyle(#ANTIALIAS) ...

HollyPaint 1.1 is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hollypaint/files/?source=navbar ChangeLog: * Rebuilt with Hollywood 5.3 * Fixed issues with running stable under AROS, Morphos and AmigaOS4 * Colorwheel with alpha sliders in own window * Individual setting of color for gradient, shado...

You could use a function with "variable number of arguments" (see documentation)