Asphyre Sphinx foi lançada!

2D Graphics Features

• Image transformation including rotation, skew, mirroring and so on.
• Alpha-blending with multiple effects such as add, subtract, multiply, shadow among others.
• Buffered drawing calls deliver extremely high rendering performance in real-time.
• Many different drawing primitives such as rectangles, ellipses, arcs, ribbons and holes.
• Multiple image pixel formats to maximize quality and minimize video memory consumption.
• Images can be loaded from compressed ASDb archives, external files and streams.
• Patterns (small sub-images) can be distributed among different textures to reduce memory footprint.
• Dynamic textures allow fast pixel access for effects such as plasma and destructible terrain.
• Rendering targets allow dazzling visual effects such as motion blur, glows and other effects.
• Proper handling of lost devices, surviving Alt+Tab, Win+L and other rare events.
• Bitmap text drawing with Unicode support, color gradient tags and alignment options.
• Integration with Vampyre Imaging Library for loading many different image formats.

3D Graphics Features

• Easy to use 3D mesh drawing even for inexperienced developers.
• Mesh instancing for improved performance when many small meshes are drawn.
• Illumination models including Phong, Blinn-Phong, Minneart, Cook-Torrance, Oren-Nayer, Isotropic and Anisotropic Ward.
• Optimized 3D pipeline with hidden surface removal and triangle sorting.
• Transparent support for DirectX 7, DirectX 9 and OpenGL providers.
• Billboard rendering for particle effects, explosions and smoke.
• Load meshes from 3D Studio Max using the conversion tool, which can read 3DS and ASE formats.
• Mesh generation code for 3D planes, spheres, round boxes, torus, torus knots and super ellipsoids.

Other Features

• Capture the state of all keyboard keys, read multiple joysticks and mouse displacement.
• Store all images, sounds and other files using LZ77 compression in a single ASDb archive for easier deployment.
• Set password for ASDb archive to encrypt the contents using XTEA 128-bit cipher so nobody else can open your media files.
• Complete set of mathematical types with operator overloading for 2D and 3D vectors and matrices.
• High-precision timer for independent graphics rendering and object movement.

Mais Informações e Download

• Mais informações  sobre a Asphyre Sphinx podem ser encontradas em sua página oficial http://afterwarp.net/products/asphyresphinx/
• Não deixem também de visitar o forum da Afterwarp Interactive.