Elysion Frameworks: Structural changes

Posted by Johannes Stein on Oct 26, 2009 in Libraries | 0 comments

As for now, the different branches of the Elysion Frameworks consisted of just one single unit (e.g. ElysionLegacy.pas), but this is gonna change (or already has changed but is not commited to the SVN repository).
Why is this change necessary?
- I got to the point of nearly having ~150 kB code in one unit. It got a bit difficult to manage to say the least
- I’m in the progess of adding Irrlicht as a backend and found me in desperate need of an abstraction layer. The defines alone just won’t cut it.

Elysion Frameworks = This is just an example for an unit (ElysionKronos, ElysionLegacy, ElysionMobile)
ElysionTypes = Basic types like TelPoint, TelVertex and so on
ElysionInterfaces = Contains abstract interfaces
ElysionMath = Arithmethical functions for basic types, espacially for older Delphi versions (earlier than Delphi 2005), but can also be used to combine TelPoint with TelVertex or an array of TelRGBColor
ElysionClasses = Basic classes like TelObject, TelLogger and so on

The backends can also be combined for example using SDL_mixer with Irrlicht graphics engine or using SDL graphics backend with IrrKlang.

Irrlicht for (Free)Pascal: Progress

Posted by Johannes Stein on Oct 24, 2009 in Development, Games, Libraries | 0 comments

I wasn’t actually thinking I would continue my Irrlicht port since it was kinda just an experiment. But hey, I’ve updated IrrlichtWrapper to Irrlicht 1.6 and got it working on a Mac.

I’ve just registered this as a project on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/irrlichtpas/
Feel free to check out the source code on SVN.

Btw: I’m in the progress of adding Irrlicht as a backend for the Elysion Frameworks.

Irrlicht for (Free)Pascal: First preview version

Posted by Johannes Stein on Oct 1, 2009 in Libraries, Linux, Mac OS X, OS-related, Windows | 0 comments

Here is the first preview version of IrrlichtWrapper for Pascal.

You need the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Redist package, or you can use alternatively the MingW DLLs, but the MingW DLLs don’t have DirectX support. I translated six of the original 78 examples. It’s actually working pretty well, but there are a few issues:
- The wrapper supports only Irrlicht 1.4.2
- The particle system is not working, creates an AV
- Text output isn’t working correctly on Linux
- Mac OS is not supported at the moment (for some unknown reason I cannot create a dynamic IrrlichtWrapper library on Mac OS X)
Download IrrlichtWrapperPas (8,1 MB)

And here is a port of Frank Dodd’s IrrKlangWrapper for Pascal: Download here (1,1 MB)
It just features a few functions at the moment, but works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Porting Irrlicht to Object Pascal began…

Posted by Johannes Stein on Sep 9, 2009 in Development, Libraries, Windows | 0 comments

A lot of people googling for irrlicht, freepascal and delphi have been redirected here lately. (Just because I link to the Irrlicht page in my blogroll.)

Nevertheless porting Irrlicht to FreePascal and Delphi has always been a big dream to me. So I took a few hours and began to port Frank Dodd’s IrrlichtWrapper to FreePascal.
That went pretty well and I got a hello world example up and running.

Here is a screenshot:

I’ll continue to work on that later as I have a few other projects at the moment.