A new version of Gorgon is now available for download. It contains a few bugfixes, and some enhancements (both of which are in the release notes). You can download it from the Github release page or pull it from nuget.org.
Gorgon v3.1.47.270
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Gorgon v3.1.46.255
A new version of Gorgon is now available for download. It contains a few bugfixes, and some enhancements (both of which are in the release notes). You can download it from the Github release page or pull it from nuget.org.
Gorgon v3.1.45.248
A new version of Gorgon is now available for download. It contains a few bugfixes, and some enhancements (both of which are in the release notes). You can download it from the Github release page or pull it from nuget.org.
Gorgon v3.1.29.243
A new version of Gorgon is now available for download. It contains a few bugfixes (which are in the release notes). You can download it from the Github release page.
A neat new thing is that Gorgon is now available on Nuget.org. You can download Gorgon piecemeal if you only need specific sets of functionality, or, you can retrieve the Gorgon.Editor.API package which retrieves all the other packages. All in all, this should make it easier to keep Gorgon up to date.
Please note that the copy on nuget.org does not contain the Editor. You’ll have to download the Gorgon zip file and extract the Tools directory.
Gorgon v3.1
Well, it’s finally “done”. Version 3.1 of Gorgon is now live on the release page. There have been many changes to Gorgon, particularly with the Editor application. Some of these changes are breaking changes, so if you intend to upgrade from 3.0, be aware you may have to change some of your code. That said, these changes are not severe, so updating should not be difficult.
There were a lot of changes, additions and bugfixes applied to this release and for a brief overview, you can view the commit log summary on the Github release page. To get more detail continue on…
Continue readingGorgon Update #10
This is a small update that addresses some bugs regarding state changes that come up in certain edge cases. These can lead to improper states being set, or older states taking precedence over new states.
As usual, the new update can be retrieved from the GitHub releases page. The latest version at this time is 3.0.88.320. Detailed information about what’s been fixed is available on the commit log for the release.
Font editor
It’s been a very long time since I’ve made an update here. I’ve been working steadily on the font editor module for the Gorgon editor and it’s finally nearing completion (the last 99% of 99% of 99% etc…).
I’m quite proud of this thing. It’s supports a pretty well rounded suite of functionality for designing a bitmap font for use with Gorgon. Besides the usual standard stuff like font outlines, font faces, styles, etc… it also supports glyph brushes, custom glyphs, glyph advancement and offset editing and custom kerning pair tables.
Here’s a few images:
Clearly I’ve not been posting
But I have been doing stuff.
I’ve been spending my time refactoring and just cleaning up the code in Gorgon. I made the mistake of getting Resharper and it put me on this crusade of cleaning up the code because apparently I’m just awful. Also, I’ve been finishing up the primary graphics API (not the 2D stuff) by adding a bunch of new things to it like geometry shaders, compute shaders, and hull/domain shaders for tesselation (this one is cool, if not a little baffling). I also made the API a little closer to Direct 3D 11 by adding views to resource object types.
More the editor
Here’s a another screenshot of the editor. This time with the Font editor plug-in in action. Note that this is very very very incomplete and may not look like this when everything is said and done.
The editor
So I’ve been busy working on building the editor for creating the content for Gorgon. I know I posted a screenshot of a very old initial version of the editor way back:
Ugly.
Anyway, I totally scrapped that old thing and restarted. And here’s a more up to date (but not even close to being done) screen shot:
A little better.
This new editor is going to be a replacement for all the tools in the previous version of Gorgon. It will handle file management duties (File System Editor in v1.x), sprite editing (Sprite Editor in v1.x) and atlasing (Atlas tool in v1.x). It will also add font editing. The big thing about this editor is that it’s entirely plug-in based. Meaning that the font editor, sprite editor, etc… are/will be DLLs that are loaded/unloaded as needed. What this means for you: You can write your own plug-in modules for it. Want to build a map editor and integrate it with the rest of your content? With the plug-in system in the editor, you can write your own map editor and host it right in the editor interface (if anything the minimized tedium of having to write UI code is worth it). Want to write out your content data as encrypted data? You can extend the file writing functionality to write out encrypted file data.
Unlike the sprite editor in the previous version, the files are no longer saved as loose files on your hard drive that require a separate utility (file system editor) to pack into a single compressed file. This editor now outputs data as a packed file (of course, this can be modified with a plug-in) so you don’t have to come up with a strategy to update your content, allowing you to edit directly. This is where it takes over from the file system editor and like the old file system editor this one is capable of importing files by either clicking on an Import menu item, or dragging and dropping directly from explorer. And, obviously, there’ll be a way to extract the files to your harddrive should you wish to do so.
I have several plans for plug-in modules for the editor including a sprite editor, image editor (a very very very very simple editor, use photoshop or paint.net if you want high detail stuff), a font editor and a shader editor (maybe).
FYI, the window will look like that in Windows 7 as well (i.e. no aero glass). I’ve modified it to look like the Zune window by including a new object in Gorgon.Common.Dll called ZuneForm. Basically you inherit this form instead of a System.Windows.Forms.Form and then you get a Zune-looking window.
DEATH TO D3DX!
FINALLY. I’VE FINALLY DONE IT! It took weeks of work, but I managed to exorcise D3DX from Gorgon. Behold my video playing an animated GIF using a 2D texture array:
I’ve provided extensive info after the jump thingy.
So I’ve been adding examples to the new version of Gorgon for the last week or so. The latest one shows how to use the new input system to use a Raw Input mouse, keyboard and joystick (if present, and is actually not using Raw Input as such). It’s a pretty silly example, but shows how to get the input plug-ins loaded, how to create an input factory and how to create the objects used to represent the various input devices.
You want pictures though. I have one. And it is here.
Boing!
Well, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy. You’ve been busy.
Anyway, I actually took some time to test out a piece of functionality for the new version of Gorgon. This new version of Gorgon will have a graphics API separate from the 2D renderer (the 2D renderer uses the graphics API however). This is unlike the previous version where the renderer was pretty much all you had access to. I had a user ask me a long time ago if it were possible to access the underlying renderer to render 3D along with the 2D. At first, it did not, but I did hack in a way to access SlimDX directly through a plug-in and it was awful.
So, in this version I decided to give the developer access to the full graphics API under the renderer. This allows the user to switch between 2D graphics and whatever they want. And here’s the results of my intense labour pain:
Yep, it’s a clone of the old Amiga demo “Boing”. As you can see, there are 2D elements (the text and the logo) along with the 3D elements (which were all done manually I might add, Gorgon does NOT have a 3D renderer so don’t get too excited). I’ve decided to include the code as an example program for the new Gorgon.
Rejoice.
Dual monitor stuff
So here’s a screenshot of the dual monitor code in action:
It’s not much to look at, but it was a major pain in the ass to get working, and does indeed work. Basically you create 2 forms, and 2 swap chains and set both swap chains to full screen and then add some special code to handle cases where focus is lost/restored on the primary form.
Gorgon would normally handle focus loss to reset your full screen mode for you when focus is returned (this is due to a bug in WinForms and DXGI). And that’s all well and good, but this code really doesn’t work well with multiple monitor situations. So, there’s a flag to tell Gorgon to turn off the automatic mode reset on focus, and that will let you, the user, handle the transition when dealing with multiple monitors. It’s not an ideal situation, but it works
It’s a bit complicated to set up, but there’ll be an example included with Gorgon on how to use dual monitor setups that’ll guide you through the process.
Gorgon – 1.1.4529.31450
There’s a new version of Gorgon uploaded. There’s not a huge amount in this release regarding the actual graphics library, just a few bug fixes.
However, there are two important changes:
- The project/solution files for the library source code were converted to Visual Studio 2010. This means that in order to compile the Gorgon library, you will need Visual Studio 2010. The library still uses .NET 3.5 SP1, so Visual Studio 2008 will continue to work when using the library assembly.
- Most important of all: There’s been a new library added called GSound (Gorgon Sound). Written by ShadowDust702. New forums have been added to reflect this new addition.
You can download Gorgon from here.