LÖVE

slime wrote:I'm not personally going to write a long blog post about new features yet, but...

• OpenGL ES 2.0 support is being tested. It will probably not make it into 0.9.0, as a) it requires either SDL 2.0 or some ugly hacks, and b) the major platforms that require it (aka mobile) also require many other internal and API changes and additions.

• SDL 2.0 is the future, but it still has plenty of bugs and incomplete features, and probably will not be released by the time the rest of 0.9.0 is done, so it's not likely any feature requiring SDL 2.0 will make it into 0.9.0.

• love.math is a new module, it currently has pseudo-random number generation (fast uniform Xorshift as well as separate gaussian distribution) functions, and a polygon triangulation function. Both were added very recently, so there may be more to come before 0.9.0 is complete. vrld can probably talk more about love.math.

• Mipmapping is a technique most often found in 3D games. In LÖVE, it will give large performance improvements and get rid of ugly noise/artifacts, when drawing downscaled images with mipmap filtering enabled. In a nutshell, repeatedly downsized versions of the image will be auto-generated, and the most appropriate size for the scale you're drawing at will be chosen by the GPU. I explain it a bit more here (although Fonts no longer have mipmap support, and the API has changed slightly).
Performance demonstration from the above link: mipmapping off, mipmapping on. The original image size is 512x512. Keep in mind mipmapping is only relevant for downscaled images.

Aside from the existing changes in 0.9.0, there are a few others which are likely to make it in, such as textured polygons in the form of Geometry. More large changes and additions are certainly possible, but I don't want to make any promises.

• Damn spammers! I've installed mollom and it's kicking ass.
• Drupal Core has been updated from 7.20 to 7.21 due to security issues.
• Views has been updated, as there was some security issues.
• We're talking about getting some extra communication going for the blag'ers, as IRC doesn't allow folks from different time-zones to cooperate.

master both wrote:Sorry if my last post sounded a bit rude, I really like all the post that are appearing, they are really helpful, but I would really like to see an article about all the stuff that is happening in bitbucket. I have seen the commits, but I don’t understand them, there are some stuff like mipmaps, love.math?, OpenGL ES, SDL 2, and many other thing that would be great to be explained in an article. Somehow, all this updates are making me exited about 0.9.0, and it would be great to know all this stuff. (or maybe I’m just been an idiot to be exited on stuff that are probably common updates, in that case, don’t listen to me)

Just take my opinion as a suggestion.

micha wrote:By the way, blog posts are a good opportunity for actually finishing something and presenting it in a polished way.