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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Hahaha! Umm... writing a new display engine is a pretty big job, even just the SDL runtime is lots of work. Then OpenGL will be all that work again. Then getting OpenGL to run the effects engine, including restructuring effects in a language OpenGL understands, is a lot of work too. All our effects at the moment are written in HLSL, which is DirectX's shader language (OpenGL uses GLSL).

But it'd still be funny to see that pic <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Hmm, not yet, someone would have to write a plugin for it. Want me to add it to my todo list? It'd have to wait till after the 1.0 release though, because it's a nontrivial feature request.

0.89 has an AVI object which might be useful for cutscenes.
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SDL won't be able to do everything - like pixel shaders, because pixel shaders run entirely in hardware so require a hardware accelerated engine. The SDL runtime acts as a software renderer, which is slower but means your game can run even on computers without DirectX 9, which could be useful for lo-fi games aimed at the casual gaming market.

And yes, in future we could move on to OpenGL-SDL runtime, which could potentially do everything the DirectX runtime does (including shaders) but work on other platforms <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Fixed in next build - it'll never have a trailing dot.
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Lol, can't wait? I've uploaded the preliminary 0.9 runtimes including this fix to here. Extract to the Data directory.

I can't remember if we've changed anything else in particular, they might not work, in which case you'll have to wait!
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I'm curious too <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt=":?" title="Confused" />
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Thanks, this is fixed in the next build.
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Just to reassure some of you, we will still be staying committed to events and script-free coding. If we add a new feature it will be available in both python and events. I intend that it be possible to write entire games either purely in events, or purely in script - or with both, in a way that each complements the other.
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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It won't straight away run on different platforms, we're still going for Windows only for the initial SDL runtime - but it certainly does make it a lot easier to port - DirectX is pretty much tied to Windows <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" />
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Can you send the cap to ashley@scirra.com? Thanks.
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Yeah, we need a new physics mode - fixed framerate. At the moment it is dependent on a high resolution timer timing the exact differences between each frame, which varies every time you run, so it has differences each time. Fixed framerate physics should fix that, I'll try adding for 0.9.
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Nice, chains in physics seem to work pretty well <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />