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The latest ZEngine has been released... sort of.
The changelog for source is massive, and I didn't even document all the new features.
I really started to tear into ZEngine again over break, but I realized I changed too much
for a smooth transition from 0.8.5. I'm going to sit back and restructure all my efforts
and do some more reading, between school and trying to maintain ZEngine I haven't had much
time, so I figure I'll kick back and write a game or something. I figure this won't affect
many people because so few people use ZEngine. If anyone is actively using ZEngine I'd really
like to hear from you as I try to sort out what direction to go next.
It's very possible that this source release is the last release of ZEngine as the world currently knows it.
I've been drawing out a better organization and new API, so if ZEngine comes back it'll probably be
in a very different form, but we'll see.
(Again, if anyone is heavily using ZEngine I'd really like to ask you a few questions, or if anyone
has any questions about the future of ZEngine feel free to email me or post on the forums.)
2004-01-14 00:34:28 UTC by cozman
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ZEngine 0.8.5 and Related News
ZEngine 0.8.5 is released and has pretty large list of changes. To help Windows developers that the removal of VC6 may hurt Dev-C++ project files have been added, and on Linux the build system has been improved, this should help those hurt by the faulty VC6 STL (VC.NET still supported). The SDL-only backend option has returned. Two new ZImage features: the added ability to draw with shading options and the also to specify a clipping rectangle. ZImage,ZSound and ZFont are now able to load from a zip archive via the included zlib library (Replacing old more complex PhysFS code). In addition, several other features have been added, some small bugs have been fixed. The next item on my todo list is to get some more tutorials out there, and hopefully another Gewi release. The Gewi bugs which have been reported so far were actually ZFont bugs, and so all the Gewi bugs are fixed as of ZEngine 0.8.5. I've recently become aware of a few feature requests, and I'll try to get those into a 0.2.1 release of Gewi in the next few weeks. As far as the next features added to ZEngine, I'm pretty excited about what'll start showing up in the next few releases, the more specific classes that will really help ZEngine separate itself from other libraries are in development, some of which are experimental, and some of which I'm pretty certain will be in by 0.8.6. More details on that and the future of the networking code which was removed from ZEngine in favour of an external networking library is on it's way soon, feel free to sign up for the new ZEngine mailing lists (http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=62098) or make some comments on the ZEngine forums(http://www.conceptofzero.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4).
2003-10-07 23:50:16 UTC by cozman
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Gewi 0.2.0 First Public Release
Gewi, the long promised GUI addon for ZEngine has been released, since this is the first public release it hasn't been tested on many systems, but is known to work on Windows and Linux, and contains a large example program. Gewi is not my main project, so will see less updates than ZEngine, but I will be very willing to accept user contributed widgets and code for Gewi.
2003-08-01 21:26:42 UTC by cozman
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0.8.4 and Various Changes
The first change I made after the 0.8.3 release was to accomodate the GUI library I'm developing, Gewi, and for those who are waiting I should let you know I'm packaging it all up as I upload 0.8.4. 0.8.4 has some changes in it that I think will really benefit the users of ZEngine. ZConfigFile no longer adjusts every file it touches, but it now allows for comments and ignores whitespace, making it much more suitable for user edited configurations. The particle system was redesigned and added, and is now designed to be easy to use and even easier to modify. (Don't let the template system scare you, it simply allows customization of the members of the particle itself.) The code was documented in places where things were not clear, rewritten for tiny optimizations, and everything got a little cleaner, some of the code hadn't been looked at in a while and got a good check to make sure everything was still working properly internally. The links at the top of http://zengine.sourceforge.net/ have also been changed, and if you're looking for dependencies, forums, or the mailing lists you should check the new links.
2003-07-13 01:40:35 UTC by cozman
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ZEngine 0.8.3
ZEngine 0.8.3 has been released, with ZClient and ZServer as well as bugfixes and some new features around the corner everybody should upgrade to this release. Hopefully I'll be posting news on the ZEngine GUI project (Gewi) very very soon.
2003-04-29 02:35:41 UTC by cozman
