Added new love.graphics.newMesh variants: newMesh(vertexformat, vertices [, drawmode, meshusage]) and newMesh(vertexformat, numvertices [, drawmode, meshusage]).
Replaced the regular love.graphics.newMesh variants with newMesh(vertices [, drawmode, meshusage]) and newMesh(numvertices [, drawmode, meshusage]). To use an image or canvas with a mesh, use Mesh:setTexture.
vertexformat is a table with the following prototype:
{
{attributename, datatype, components},
{attributename, datatype, components},
...
}
Where attributename is the name of the vertex attribute (can be the built-in names 'VertexPosition', 'VertexTexCoord', or 'VertexColor', or a custom name for use in a vertex shader), datatype is the type of values used for the attribute ('float' or 'byte'), and components is the number of components in the vertex attribute (between 1 and 4.)
The vertex format is used to determine the layout of the vertices in the mesh, for example the 'regular' newMesh variants use this vertex format:
format = {
{"VertexPosition", "float", 2},
{"VertexTexCoord", "float", 2},
{"VertexColor", "byte", 4},
}
The mesh usage parameter accepts the same constants as the spritebatch usage hint in love.graphics.newSpriteBatch - "dynamic", "static", and "stream".
Mesh:setVertex now sets *all* vertex attributes for a specific vertex in the Mesh.
Added Mesh:setVertexAttribute(vertexindex, attributeindex, attributevalue1, ...), which sets the values for a specific vertex attribute in a specific vertex in the Mesh (resolves issue #784.)
Added Mesh:getVertexFormat and Mesh:flush.
Added Mesh:setAttributeEnabled(attributename, enable) and Mesh:isAttributeEnabled(attributename), to enable or disable the use of a specific attribute when drawing the Mesh.
Added Mesh:attachAttribute(attributename, mesh), which makes the Mesh use a vertex attribute from another mesh when drawing the Mesh. This can be used to separate out vertex attributes which are updated at different rates into different meshes, and to share vertex data between multiple meshes.
Removed Mesh:setVertices, Mesh:getVertices, and Mesh:setVertexColors.
Renamed the love.image CompressedData type to CompressedImageData.
love.math.compress returns a love.math CompressedData object which holds the newly compressed data. Currently supported formats are "lz4" and "zlib". Note that the formats are not file formats and don't compress filesystem hierarchies.
Note: this implementation is slightly different from the implementation in the love 0.9.x Android and iOS ports!
Added love.touchpressed(id, x, y), love.touchmoved(id, x, y, dx, dy), and love.touchreleased(id, x, y, dx, dy).
id is a unique identifier for the touch press that persists until love.touchreleased. After that it is no longer unique.
x and y are the coordinates of the touch event in pixels within the window.
dx and dy are the amount in pixels that the touch has moved since the last event.
Added love.touch.getTouchCount and love.touch.getTouch(index).
love.touch.getTouch takes an index (not the same as an id. indices are not stable and don't correspond to a unique touch press.)
It returns the id of the touch and its current x and y coordinates in pixels.
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NOTE: Sadly, on some platforms, like linux, the linker is "smart" enough to have the previous code be completely ineffective, the checking will only work with versions of love >= 0.9.2
Text objects are Drawable objects that represent text on the screen. They decouple text drawing from text parsing and vertex uploading, in a similar manner to SpriteBatches. They also optionally allow efficient batching of text from the same Font in different relative coordinate transformations, without having many draw calls.
Text objects currently have the following methods:
Text:set(textstring) -- replaces any existing text in the object with the new string.
Text:setf(textstring, wraplimit, alignmode) -- replaces any existing text with formatted text using the new string.
Text:getFont() -- gets the Font object used for this Text object.
Text:getWidth() -- gets the width in pixels of the most recently added text in the Text object.
Text:getHeight() -- gets the height in pixels of the most recently added text in the Text object.
Text:add(textstring, x, y, angle, sx, sy, ox, oy, kx, ky) -- adds a new string to the text object using the specified relative coordinate transformation, without replacing existing text. This behaves much like SpriteBatch:add.
Text:addf(textstring, wraplimit, alignmode, x, y, angle, sx, sy, ox, oy, kx, ky) -- adds a new formatted string to the text object using the specified relative coordinate transformation.
Text:clear() -- clears all text from the object.
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The module must be required before use, i.e. utf8 = require("utf8"). API documentation can be found here: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5
Removing the last unicode character in a string (for proper backspace support in text boxes, for example) can be done using utf8.offset, e.g. text = text:sub(1, utf8.offset(text, -1) - 1).
Previously, calling e.g. love.graphics.getFont() 10,000 times would retain the object 10,000 times (and release it 10,000 times when the Font object was garbage-collected in the Lua state.) Now it will only retain it once and release it once.
Alex Szpakowski
Bart van Strien