Future features

[rude]

Okay, so we've been getting some suggestions for additional LÖVE features. The following "major" features are currently planned:

• GUI
• Collision detection/Physics (Chipmunk 2D)
• Particle system
• love.net (Networking)

Feel free to suggest other things, if you can think of something.

[Suggested:]

Change mouse position

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love.mouse:setX( x )
love.mouse:setY( y )
love.mouse:setPosition( x, y )

Console

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love.system:print("Hello this is var: " .. var .. "\n")
love.system:println("Yaaay! Auto newlines!")
love.system:setConsole( bool )

Framerate cap

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love.timer:setCap(100)

Scaling of ImageFonts

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imgfont:setScale( scale )
imgfont:setScale( scalex, scaley )
.. or was it:
love.graphics:draw( string, x, y, rotation, scale )
love.graphics:draw( string, x, y, rotation, scalex, scaley )

Other: (interface not suggested)

• Distortion mesh. (Geometry Wars)
• "Sprite" object. (Fusion of visual and physical representations)
• Gamepad support - (SDL has support for it, so it's a matter of wrapping)
• Rename love.exe to something.exe -> autolaunches something.love
• Ponies.

[Merkoth]

Good to hear about the physics, never heard of Chipmunk, but heard a lot of good things about Box2D (http://www.box2d.org, zlib/libpng license).
Regarding the particle engine, last time I checked out the particle engine code of HGE was pretty simple and powerful (http://hge.relishgames.com, zlib/libpng license). You may want to take a look

And now my wishlist:

* Sprite objects
* Be able to rename the window caption
* Joystick/Gamepad input
* Ability to rotate images (maybe in future sprite object? maybe as parameter for love.graphics:draw?)
* Ability to change the "center" of an image/sprite
* A pony <- very important

[rude]

I hadn't heard about Chipmunk either, until Mr. "Blue Prawn" told me about it. It does seem very good, though it might actually be based on Box2D.

Thanks for the tip; we are already into the process of ripping off HGE. Actually, the particle system is more or less done, but it needs to be made more efficient.

The wishlist:

• A "Sprite" object will probably be created when the collision detection is done.
• The window caption becomes the game title in version 0.2.0 (next).
• Joystick/Gamepad ... Noted!
• Rotate/scale is implemented in 0.2.0 as a parameter in love.graphics:draw
• image:setCenter and animation:setCenter is implemented in 0.2.0.
• Ponies ... of course. And chinchillas.

[mike]

"Sprite" object. (Fusion of visual and physical representations)

Is this "Sprite" object you refer to an updated version of CorporealActor?

PS: A suggested forum feature would be a specific board for bugs. Build it and they will come.

[rude]

Yeah, something like that. Will probably be implemented in Lua, though. We'll see.

We could add another category, but there's no real point as long as there are a grand whopping five users. Forum creation strategy: if "Everything" becomes oversaturated with topics of a specific type, we'll create a separate section for that topic.

[SCIBOTIC]

What sort of ponies are you hoping for?

[Merkoth]

What sort of ponies are you hoping for?

LÖVE-branded ones if possible, something like:


Shot at 2008-02-06

[Merkoth]

Now seriously, is it possible to add setX() and setY() methods for the mouse?

[rude]

... is that really a pony?

It is very possible to add love.mouse:setX/Y.

[Merkoth]

I googled it, but I must admit that it looks more like a mini-donkey o_O