Maintenance Update

Pyrite Engine » Devlog
4 years ago by RIEDEL TECH
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Hello everyone,

Here's a small maintenance release to address a few issues and tie everyone over until our next big release.

  • Added function to clear the whole scene to empty tiles.
  • Tiles with transparent pixels containing color data are now rendered correctly.
  • Minor documentation appearance improvements.
  • Updated documentation to include changes.
  • Lowered price to better accommodate indie developers and hobbyists. :)

To update to the latest version:

  1. Download and extract the new version to a directory
  2. Copy the "projects" directory to the new versions directory
  3. Keep the old directory as backup, and enjoy the new version! :)

Files

Pyrite - Free Edition 20 MB
Mar 09, 2020
Pyrite - Build Edition 26 MB
Mar 09, 2020

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PossiblyAxolotl3 years ago

Hey, just wondering if you are planning on adding audio capabilities any time soon? if not do you know if there’s any way I could add them to it? Thanks!

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RIEDEL TECH3 years ago(+1)

Hi, what level of audio functionality would you be after? I have a simple and experimental API that supports playing audio files. I could look into merging it into the normal build if that would help? Alternatively, I'm looking to release a new major version of Pyrite early 2022, which will support audio out of the box.

There's also theoretically nothing stopping you from importing an existing audio library, place it in the executable directory and import it.

Final option could even be to just use os.system to call an external program for audio playback. ie.

# apt install mpg123 (if on linux. Will need to look for another program for windows.)
import os
file = "file.mp3"
os.system("mpg123 " + file)

Above from: https://pythonbasics.org/python-play-sound/

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PossiblyAxolotl3 years ago

all I’m really in need of is playing a few audio files as sound effects so I think taking something like the playsound module and adding it to my script will be enough. I didn’t even think of importing another audio library. Thanks!

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