2017/02/10

06:46

I believe when it comes to the fog of war, I can have it simpler so that every part of the map is already explored, just not revealed what is there. That would save me a number of bytes in memory. Also, I can limit the game to 8 players and fit that all into a byte.

09:02

I could use a generic graphics drawer that has abstract methods and such which has basic primitive operations. This way, I only need to implement stuff such as arc filling, triangles, and other things only once.

09:07

The Swing graphics can use them also so I can see how well it is implemented. Then drawing on canvases or mutable images can use this class. Then also a generic UI layer can use the same graphics routines also. Everything that is drawn will just be software for the most part.

09:24

I can also do my own font rendering, perhaps just have a simple set of bitmap fonts that are blitted on. They would not exactly match the system but it would be consistent. The only issue would be that I would need to know the display DPI of the destination so that fonts are not microscopic or too large. Really, the font size would be very dependent on the system.

09:27

However, reading the documentation on fonts, they are managed by the font and such. So I will need some kind of abstract font representation that can bridge between system fonts and virtual fonts. However, it appears that fonts are only measured by pixels, so this simplifies things for me. So this means that the DisplayEngine will need to handle fonts too. At least with pixel based sizes and such, I do not need to worry about point sizes and DPI. The only consideration is that the DisplayEngine will have to tell me the sizes for fonts depending on their size (small, medium, or large).

09:30

I am also guessing that it is like this because you can read an input font and then use it for rendering (reading an OpenType font file). I suppose that internally the previous implementations just read the curves and such then just treated it as a bitmap font. This is fast and most things would be simple. Alternatively with derivation, the original curves are likely kept around.

09:58

I will say that the Graphics class for MIDP is quite sane.

10:15

Having a method for putting pixels would be slow due to the massive amounts of overhead. So what would have to be done is that drawArc and drawLine will have to be primitive operations. This would duplicate things, but at least for Swing I can ignore writing a line drawing algorithm and just use the AWT operations. However, everything else would not be a primitive operation. Just one thing that has to be handled, will be alpha and such.

10:59

I am pretty sure that the clip operations are transformed.

11:37

The primitive horizontal line operation can just forward to the non-horizontal version. Then for optimization it can be implemented as needed.

18:26

Been thinking about an algorithm for drawing filled arcs. It needs to be fast. Using the horizontal line drawers will be efficient for filling. However one thing will be determining the edges of the circle then any sliced through line angles and such. Anything that is 180 degrees or lower is convex when it comes to a circle, there will not be any otherlap. So a filled arc would be done in two steps if the number of degrees exceeds 180. Since any arc past that point is concave. I would just need to devise an up to semi-circle drawing algorithm of sorts.

21:34

Bringing in the XPM reader was quite simple. I just now have to implement immutable images from RGB data.

22:00

Need to make it so the blend mode cannot become SRC if there is no alpha channel.

22:16

The next thing to implement here, would be drawing of images. But I have been programming all day and I am quite tired, so I shall sleep now.