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  1. Nov 4th, 2002, 10:05 AM #1
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    2D Engine features

    Im busy creating a 2D Graphics engine that uses DirectDraw from DirectX 7 and I'm a bit stuck on decideing what features it should hav. For example here are some of the things it can do so far:
    • Load Bitmaps as sprites
    • Set background Image or Color
    • Animated sprites
    • Alpha blending
    • Use DirectInput for mouse and keyborad
    • Manage the ordering of Images
    • Display Text
    • Get available display modes
    Theres some other things it can do but thats all I can really think of at the moment.

    Does anyone have any other ideas for what else I could add to it.
    Thanx for any help.
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    That depends how specialized and how large you want the engine to be. You could add a tile engine, but if the developer doesn't want a tile engine it will be useless bulk.

    There are lots of things like that, you'll have to make those decisions.

    You could add a physics engine, but again somebody might not want it.
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  3. Nov 4th, 2002, 05:27 PM #3
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    check out my prog: www.geocities.com/mp_crew2001

    maybe it will give you some ideas...
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