flame 1.0.0-releasecandidate.11

A minimalist Flutter game engine, provides a nice set of somewhat independent modules you can choose from.

CHANGELOG

[1.0.0-releasecandidate.11]

• Replace deprecated analysis option lines-of-executable-code with source-lines-of-code
• Fix the anchor of SpriteWidget
• Add test for re-adding previously removed component
• Add possibility to dynamically change priority of components
• Add onCollisionEnd to make it possible for the user to easily detect when a collision ends
• Adding test coverage to packages
• Possibility to have non-fullscreen ParallaxComponent
• No need to send size in ParallaxComponent.fromParallax since Parallax already contains it
• Fix Text Rendering not working properly
• Add more useful methods to the IsometricTileMap component
• Add Hoverables
• Brief semantic update to second tutorial.

[1.0.0-rc10]

• Updated tutorial documentation to indicate use of new version
• Fix bounding box check in collision detection
• Refactor on flame input system to correctly take camera into account
• Adding SpriteAnimationGroupComponent
• Allow isometric tile maps with custom heights
• Add a new renderRect method to Sprite
• Addresses the TODO to change the camera public APIs to take Anchors for relativePositions
• Adds methods to support moving the camera relative to its current position
• Abstracting the text api to allow custom text renderers on the framework
• Set the same debug mode for children as for the parent when added
• Fix camera projections when camera is zoomed
• Fix collision detection system with angle and parentAngle
• Fix rendering of shapes that aren't HitboxShape

[1.0.0-rc9]

• Fix input bug with other anchors than center
• Fixed Shape so that the position is now a late
• Updated the documentation for the supported platforms
• Add clear function to BaseGame to allow the removal of all components
• Moving tutorials to the Flame main repository
• Transforming PaletteEntry.paint to be a method instead of a getter
• Adding some more basic colors entries to the BasicPalette
• Fixing Flutter and Dart version constraints
• Exporting Images and AssetsCache
• Make size and position in PositionComponent final
• Add a snapTo and onPositionUpdate method to the Camera
• Remove the SpriteAnimationComponent when the animation is really done, not when it is on the last frame
• Revamp all the docs to be up to date with v1.0.0
• Make Assets and Images caches have a configurable prefix
• Add followVector2 method to the Camera
• Make gameRef late
• Fix Scroll example
• Add a renderPoint method to Canvas
• Add zoom to the camera
• Add moveToTarget as an extension method to Vector2
• Bring back collision detection examples
• Fix collision detection in Collidable with multiple offset shapes
• Publishing Flame examples on github pages

1.0.0-rc8

• Migrate to null safety
• Refactor the joystick code
• Fix example app
• Rename points to intersectionPoints for collision detection
• Added CollidableType to make collision detection more efficient
• Rename CollidableType.static to passive
• Add srcPosition and srcSize for SpriteComponent
• Improve collision detection with bounding boxes

1.0.0-rc7

• Moving device related methods (like fullScreen) from util.dart to device.dart
• Moving render functions from util.dart to extensions/canvas.dart
• Adapting ParallaxComponent contructors to match the pattern followed on other components
• Adapting SpriteBatchComponent constructors to match the pattern used on other components
• Improving Parallax APIs regarding handling its size and the use outside FCS
• Enabling direct import of Sprite and SpriteAnimation
• Renamed Composition to ImageComposition to prevent confusion with the composition component
• Added rotation and anchor arguments to ImageComposition.add
• Added Image extensions
• Added Color extensions
• Change RaisedButton to ElevatedButton in timer example
• Overhaul the draggables api to fix issues relating to local vs global positions
• Preventing errors caused by the premature use of size property on game
• Added a hitbox mixin for PositionComponent to make more accurate gestures
• Added a collision detection system
• Added geometrical shapes
• Fix SpriteAnimationComponent.shouldRemove use Component.shouldRemove
• Add assertion to make sure Draggables are safe to add
• Add utility methods to the Anchor class to make it more "enum like"
• Enable user-defined anchors
• Added toImage method for the Sprite class
• Uniform use of dt instead of t in all update methods
• Add more optional arguments for unified constructors of components
• Fix order that parent -> children render in

1.0.0-rc6

• Use Offset type directly in JoystickAction.update calculations
• Changed parseAnchor in examples/widgets to throw an exception instead of returning null when it cannot parse an anchor name
• Code improvements and preparing APIs to null-safety
• BaseComponent removes children marked as shouldRemove during update
• Use find instead of globstar pattern in scripts/lint.sh as the later isn't enabled by default in bash
• Fixes aseprite constructor bug
• Improve error handling for the onLoad function
• Add test for child removal
• Fix bug where Timer callback doesn't fire for non-repeating timers, also fixing bug with Particle lifespan
• Adding shortcut for loading Sprites and SpriteAnimation from the global cache
• Adding loading methods for the different ParallaxComponent parts and refactor how the delta velocity works
• Add tests for Timer and fix a bug where progress was not reported correctly
• Refactored the SpriteBatch class to be more elegant and to support Vector2.
• Added fallback support for the web on the SpriteBatch class
• Added missing documentation on the SpriteBatch class
• Added an utility method to load a SpriteBatch on the Game class
• Updated the widgets.md documentation
• Removing methods initialDimensions and removeGestureRecognizer to avoid confusion
• Adding standard for SpriteComponent and SpriteAnimationComponent constructors
• Added Composition, allows for composing multiple images into a single image.
• Move files to comply with the dart package layout convention
• Fix gesture detection bug of children of PositionComponent
• The game argument on GameWidget is now required

1.0.0-rc5

• Option for overlays to be already visible on the GameWidget
• Adding game to the overlay builder
• Rename retreive -> Retrieve
• Use internal children set in BaseComponent (fixes issue adding multiple children)
• Remove develop branches from github workflow definition
• BaseComponent to return UnmodifiableListView for children

1.0.0-rc4

• Rename Dragable -> Draggable
• Set loop member variable when constructing SpriteAnimationComponent from SpriteAnimationData
• Effect shouldn't affect unrelated properties on component
• Fix rendering of children
• Explicitly define what fields an effect on PositionComponent modifies
• Properly propagate onMount and onRemove to children
• Adding Canvas extensions
• Remove Resizable mixin
• Use config defaults for TextBoxComponent
• Fixing Game Render Box for flutter >= 1.25
• DebugMode to be variable instead of function on BaseGame

1.0.0-rc3

• Fix TextBoxComponent rendering
• Add TextBoxConfig options; margins and growingBox
• Fix debugConfig strokeWidth for web
• Update Forge2D docs
• Update PR template with removal of develop branch
• Translate README to Russian
• Split up Component and PositionComponent to BaseComponent
• Unify multiple render methods on Sprite
• Refactored how games are inserted into a flutter tree
• Refactored the widgets overlay API
• Creating new way of loading animations and sprites
• Dragable mixin for components
• Fix update+render of component children
• Update documentation for SVG component
• Update documentation for PositionComponent
• Adding Component#onLoad
• Moving size to Game instead of BaseGame
• Fix bug with ConcurrentModificationError on add in onMount

1.0.0-rc2

• Improve IsometricTileMap and Spritesheet classes
• Export full vector_math library from extension
• Added warning about basic and advanced detectors
• Ensuring sprite animation and sprite animation components don't get NPEs on initialization
• Refactor timer class
• include all changed that are included on 0.28.0
• Rename game#resize to game#onResize
• Test suite for basic effects
• Effects duration and test suite for basic effects
• Pause and resume for effects
• Fix position bug in parallax effect
• Simplification of BaseGame. Removal of addLater (add is now addLater) and rename markForRemoval.
• Unify naming for removal of components from BaseGame

1.0.0-rc1

• Move all box2d related code and examples to the flame_box2d repo
• Rename Animation to SpriteAnimation
• Create extension of Vector2 and unify all tuples to use that class
• Remove Position class in favor of new Vector2 extension
• Remove Box2D as a dependency
• Rebuild of Images, Sprite and SpriteAnimation initialization
• Use isRelative on effects
• Use Vector2 for position and size on PositionComponent
• Removing all deprecated methods
• Rename resize method on components to onGameResize
• Make Resizable have a gameSize property instead of size
• Fix bug with CombinedEffect inside SequenceEffect
• Fix wrong end angle for relative rotational effects
• Use a list of Vector2 for Move effect to open up for more advanced move effects
• Generalize effects api to include all components
• Extract all the audio related capabilities to a new package, flame_audio
• Fix bug that sprite crashes without a position

0.29.1-beta

• Fixing Game Render Box for flutter >= 1.25

0.29.0

• Update audioplayers to latest version (now assets will not be added to prefixes automatically)
• Fix lint issues with 0.28.0

0.28.0

• Fix spriteAsWidget deprecation message
• Add lineHeight property to TextConfig
• Adding pause and resume methods to time class

0.27.0

• Improved the accuracy of the FPSCounter by using Flutter's internal frame timings.
• Adding MouseMovementDetector
• Adding ScrollDetector
• Fixes BGM error
• Adding Isometric Tile Maps

0.26.0

• Improving Flame image auto cache
• Fix bug in the Box2DGame's add and addLater method , when the Component extends BodyComponent and mixin HasGameRef or other mixins ,the mixins will not be set correctly

0.25.0

• Externalizing Tiled support to its own package flame_tiled
• Preventing some crashs that could happen on web when some methods were called
• Add mustCallSuper to BaseGame update and render methods
• Moved FPS code from BaseGame to a mixin, BaseGame uses the new mixin.
• Deprecate flare API in favor of the package flame_flare

0.24.0

• Outsourcing SVG support to an external package
• Adding MemoryCache class
• Fixing games crashes on Web
• Update tiled dependency to 0.6.0 (objects' properties are now double)

0.23.0

• Add Joystick Component
• Adding BaseGame#markToRemove
• Upgrade tiled and flutter_svg dependencies
• onComplete callback for effects
• Adding Layers
• Update tiled dep to 0.5.0 and add support for rotation with improved api

0.22.1

• Fix Box2DComponent render priority
• Fix PositionComponentEffect drifting
• Add possibility to combine effects
• Update to newest box2d_flame which fixes torque bug
• Adding SpriteSheet.fromImage

0.22.0

• Fixing BaseGame tap detectors issues
• Adding SpriteWidget
• Adding AnimationWidget
• Upgrade Flutter SVG to fix for flame web
• Add linting to all the examples
• Run linting only on affected and changed examples
• Add SequenceEffect
• Fixed bug with travelTime in RotateEffect

0.21.0

• Adding AssetsCache.readBinaryFile
• Splitting debugMode from recordFps mode
• Adding support for multi touch tap and drag events
• Fix animations example
• Add possibility for infinite and alternating effects
• Add rotational effect for PositionComponents

0.20.2

• Fix text component bug with anchor being applied twice

0.20.1

• Adding method to load image bases on base64 data url.
• Fix Box2DGame to follow render priority
• Fix games trying to use gameRef inside the resize function

0.20.0

• Refactor game.dart classes into separate files
• Adding a GameLoop class which uses a Ticker for updating game
• Adding sprites example
• Made BaseGame non-abstract and removed SimpleGame
• Adding SpriteButton Widget
• Added SpriteBatch API, which renders sprites effectively using Canvas.drawAtlas
• Introducing basic effects API, including MoveEffect and ScaleEffect
• Adding ContactCallback controls in Box2DGame

0.19.1

• Bump AudioPlayers version to allow for web support
• Adding Game#pauseEngine and Game#resumeEngine methods
• Removing FlameBinding since it isn't used and clashes with newest flutter

0.19.0

• Fixing component lifecycle calls on BaseGame#addLater
• Fixing Component#onDestroy, which was been called multiple times sometimes
• Fixing Widget Overlay usage over many game instances

0.18.3

• Adding Component#onDestroy
• Adding Keyboard events API
• Adding Box2DGame, an extension of BaseGame to simplify lifecycle of Box2D components
• Add onAnimateComplete for Animation (thanks @diegomgarcia)
• Adding AnimationComponent#overridePaint
• Adding SpriteComponent#overridePaint
• Updating AudioPlayers to enable Web Audio support

0.18.2

• Add loop for AnimationComponent.sequenced() (thanks @wenxiangjiang)
• TextComponent optimization (thanks @Gericop)
• Adding Component#onMount
• Check if chidren are loaded before rendering on ComposedComponent (thanks @wenxiangjiang)
• Amend type for width and height properties on Animation.sequenced (thanks @wenxiangjiang)
• Fixing Tapable position checking
• Support line feed when create animation from a single image source (thanks @wenxiangjiang)
• Fixing TextBoxComponent start/end of line bugs (thanks @kurtome)
• Prevent widgets overlay controller from closing when in debug mode

0.18.1

• Expose stepTime paramter from the Animation class to the animation component
• Updated versions for bugfixes + improved macOS support. (thanks @flowhorn)
• Update flutter_svg to 0.17.1 (thanks @flowhorn)
• Update audioplayers to 0.14.0 (thanks @flowhorn)
• Update path_provider to 1.6.0 (thanks @flowhorn)
• Update ordered_set to 1.1.5 (thanks @flowhorn)

0.18.0

• Improving FlareComponent API and updating FlareFlutter dependency
• Adding HasWidgetsOverlay mixin
• Adding NineTileBox widget

0.17.4

• Fixing compilations errors regarding changes on box2_flame
• Add splash screen docs

0.17.3

• Tweaking text box rendering to reduce pixelated text (thanks, @kurtome)
• Adding NineTileBox component

0.17.2

• Added backgroundColor method for overriding the game background (thanks @wolfenrain)
• Update AudioPlayers version to 0.13.5
• Bump SVG dependency plus fix example app

0.17.1

• Added default render function for Box2D ChainShape
• Adding TimerComponent
• Added particles subsystem (thanks @av)

0.17.0

• Fixing FlareAnimation API to match convention
• Fixing FlareComponent renderization
• New GestureDetector API to Game

0.16.1

• Added Bgm class for easy looping background music management.
• Added options for flip rendering of PositionComponents easily (horizontal and vertical).

0.16.0

• Improve our mixin structure (breaking change)
• Adds HasGameRef mixin
• Fixes for ComposedComponent (for tapables and other apis using preAdd)
• Added no-parameter alias functions for setting the game's orientation.
• Prevent double completion on onMetricsChanged callback

0.15.2

• Exposing tile objects on TiledComponent (thanks @renatoferreira656)
• Adding integrated API for taps on Game class and adding Tapeables mixin for PositionComponents

0.15.1

• Bumped version of svg dependency
• Fixed warnings

0.15.0

• Refactoring ParallaxComponent (thanks @spydon)
• Fixing flare animation with embed images
• Adding override paint parameter to Sprite, and refactoring it have named optional parameters

0.14.2

• Refactoring BaseGame debugMode
• Adding SpriteSheet class
• Adding Flame.util.spriteAsWidget
• Fixing AnimationComponent.empty()
• Fixing FlameAudio.loopLongAudio

0.14.1

• Fixed build on travis
• Updated readme badges
• Fixed changelog
• Fixed warning on audiopool, added audiopool example in docs

0.14.0

• Adding Timer#isRunning method
• Adding Timer#progress getter
• Updating Flame to work with Flutter >= 1.6.0

0.13.1

• Adding Timer utility class
• Adding destroyOnFinish flag for AnimationComponent
• Fixing release mode on examples that needed screen size
• Bumping dependencies versions (audioplayers and path_provider)

0.13.0

• Downgrading flame support to stable channel.

0.12.2

• Added more functionality to the Position class (thanks, @illiapoplawski)

0.12.1

• Fixed PositionComponent#setByRect to comply with toRect (thanks, @illiapoplawski)

0.12.0

• Updating flutter_svg and pubspec to support the latest flutter version (1.6.0)
• Adding Flare Support
• Fixing PositionComponent#toRect which was not considering the anchor property (thanks, @illiapoplawski)

[0.11.2]

• Fixed bug on animatons with a single frame
• Fixed warning on using specific version o flutter_svg on pubspec
• ParallaxComponent is not abstract anymore, as it does not include any abstract method
• Added some functionality to Position class

[0.11.1]

• Fixed lack of paint update when using AnimationAsWidget as pointed in #78
• Added travis (thanks, @renancarujo)

[0.11.0]

• Implementing low latency api from audioplayers (breaking change)
• Improved examples by adding some instructions on how to run
• Add notice on readme about the channel
• Upgrade path_provider to fix conflicts

[0.10.4]

• Fix breaking change on svg plugin

[0.10.3]

• Svg support
• Adding Animation#reversed allowing a new reversed animation to be created from an existing animation.
• Fix games inside regular apps when the component is inside a sliver
• Support asesprite animations

[0.10.2]

• Fixed some warnings and formatting

[0.10.1]

• Fixes some typos
• Improved docs
• Extracted gamepads to a new lib, lots of improvements there (thanks, @erickzanardo)
• Added more examples and an article

[0.10.0]

• Fixing a few minor bugs, typos, improving docs
• Adding the Palette concept: easy access to white and black colors/paints, create your palette to keep your game organized.
• Adding the Anchor concept: specify where thins should anchor, added to PositionComponent and to the new text releated features.
• Added a whole bunch of text related components: TextConfig allows you to easily define your typography information, TextComponent allows for easy rendering of stuff and TextBox can make sized texts and also typing effects.
• Improved Utils to have better and more concise APIs, removed unused stuff.
• Adding TiledComponent to integrate with tiled

[0.9.5]

• Add elapsed property to Animation (thanks, @ianliu)
• Fixed minor typo on documentation

[0.9.4]

• Bumps audioplayers version

[0.9.3]

• Fixes issue when switching between games where new game would not attach

[0.9.2]

• Fixes to work with Dart 2.1

[0.9.1]

• Updated audioplayers and box2d to fix bugs

[0.9.0]

• Several API changes, using new audioplayers 0.6.x

[0.8.4]

• Added more consistent APIs and tests

[0.8.3]

• Need to review audioplayers 0.5.x

[0.8.2]

• Added better documentation, tutorials and examples
• Minor tweaks in the API
• New audioplayers version

[0.8.1]

• The Components Overhaul Update: This is major update, even though we are keeping things in alpha (version 0.*)
• Several major upgrades regarding the component system, new component types, Sprites and SpriteSheets, better image caching, several improvements with structure, a BaseGame, a new Game as a widget, that allows you to embed inside apps and a stop method. More minor changes.

[0.6.1]

• Bump required dart version

[0.6.0]

• Adding audio suport for iOS (bumping audioplayers version)

[0.5.0]

• Adding a text method to Util to more easily render a Paragraph

[0.4.0]

• Upgraded AudioPlayers, added method to disable logging
• Created PositionComponent with some useful methods
• A few refactorings

[0.3.0]

• Added a pre-load method for Audio module

[0.2.0]

• Added a loop method for playing audio on loop
• Added the option to make rectangular SpriteComponents, not just squares

[0.1.0]

• First release, basic utilities