ZGameEditor 2.0.0

Post by **VilleK** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:55 pm

Version 2.0.0 is released today!

Some of the new features include: edit as xml, powerful scripting additions, additional bitmap producers, components for generating audio from expressions, built-in JPEG compression + many other improvements and changes.

For a detailed list of updates in ZGE since the last version visit the beta-thread for 2.0.0:

viewtopic.php?t=628

Download the new release 2.0.0 from here:

http://www.zgameeditor.org/index.php/Main/Download

Note: The Linux and OSX runtime binaries are not included in this release. I will add them later when I upgrade the build-environments to the latest version of Freepascal.

getter77 · Post by **getter77** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:49 pm

Congrats! I've been stalking this place out as one of a short list of especially compelling game dev projects the past few months---waiting for this 2.0 release to fully manifest before jumping in. I've got a feeling about this thing...

Hope to see many new/freshly current tutorials and examples onsite in the near future after the remaining platform builds get squared away.

Post by **VilleK** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:56 am

Updated today with a small fix for a problem with error messages on certain older ATI Radeon cards. Hopefully it is solved now. Big thanks to yoffset for helping me test this!

keymasher · Post by **keymasher** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:53 am

any chance for the osx and linux runtimes?

Post by **VilleK** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:53 pm

keymasher wrote:any chance for the osx and linux runtimes?

It will take a couple of weeks while I have some time and more bandwidth (using a temporary mobile connection at the moment) until I can get that sorted. But anyone with a Mac or Linux desktop can build the runtimes. Just download and build Freepascal from latest source then do the same with the ZGameEditor sources. If you want to give it a try let me know.

keymasher · Post by **keymasher** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:20 am

cool i have both OS's, i'll try give it a go tonight/tommoz

Post by **VilleK** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:46 am

For OS X there is a shell file in the ZZDC directory called "buildOsx". You need SDL installed.

On Linux I build with this:
"fpc -XXis -O2 -dZZDC_SDL -dMINIMAL -FU./Build/obj/ -B -Mdelphi ZzDC.dpr"

You should get a binary file called ZzDC. Copy this to a windows computer and rename it to "Player_osx86.bin" or "Player_linux.bin".

Let me know if anything is missing.

keymasher · Post by **keymasher** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:08 pm

what version of fpc? I checked out and built from svn and i get
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2-0 [2010/11/20] for x86_64
(not sure why i cant get it to say 2.5.1)

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j@j:~/Experiments/zgameeditor$ fpc -XXis -O2 -dZZDC_SDL -dMINIMAL -FU./Build/obj/ -B -Mdelphi ZzDC.dpr
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.2-0 [2010/11/20] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling ZzDC.dpr
ZzDC.dpr(23,2) Warning: Illegal compiler directive "$WEAKLINKRTTI"
Compiling ZClasses.pas
Compiling ZMath.pas
ZMath.pas(278,19) Error: Unknown identifier "ST"
...
ZMath.pas(828,15) Fatal: There were 50 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled)

Post by **VilleK** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:30 pm

It needs to be Free Pascal Intel/i386 version. Not sure if the 64 bit version can output 32-bit binaries. ZGE is not 64-bit ready yet.

keymasher · Post by **keymasher** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:11 am

Okay heres a working Player_linux.bin (built in a 32bit ubuntu VM, 64bit fpc can build 32bit libraries but it was a nightmare getting it to work nicely)

Edit: Built Player_osx86.bin

Both tested and seem to work, I tested with Particles project. Only issue i saw was the text come up black but im guessing im missing fonts or something similar.

Post by **Kjell** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:49 am

Nice job keymasher! The font not showing up is because the build-in font isn't available on Linux & Mac. As quoted from the "Generate files for Linux and OS X" page ..

Current limitations: Built-in font not supported, use bitmapped fonts instead.

K

Post by **VilleK** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:02 pm

Thanks keymasher, you building this for us saves me a lot of hassle. I will have to get the build platforms up and running on some point anyway but I don't have to make it high priority anymore.

keymasher · Post by **keymasher** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:02 am

my pleasure its the least i can do for zge!