USING SPRITE CANDY, YOU CAN DO:

  • Extremely fast 2D graphics
  • HUD displays & overlays
  • Animated title screens
  • Animated menus
  • Animated images
  • Tiled images
  • Powerful bitmap texts (includes editor!)
  • Realtime object shadows
  • Automated text- and image buttons
  • Automated movements, effects & animation tasks
  • Colored shapes, lines & progress bars (no textures required)
  • Easily create complete, high-performance 2D games
  • NEW: Now including the fastest GUI available!

    • WHAT IS SPRITE CANDY?
    Sprite Candy is an extremely flexible, easy-to-use and powerful single-surface 2D graphics engine to handle all kind of high-performance 2D graphics -from simple HUD displays for your 3D game, to complete console-style 2D games. With Sprite Candy you can do: HUD displays, animated menus and title screens, bitmap texts, animated buttons & button events, colored shapes & lines, tiled images, animated images, complex sprite movements -all done with a few, simple commands only!

    Sprite Candy is a powerful all-in-one solution that has been especially designed to assist the creation of console-style high performance 2D games. Sprite Candy includes many pre-defined and simple-to-use effects that can be applied to any object: automated alpha fading, zooming, scaling, rotating, smooth color change, tricky movements and many, many more.

    Sprite Candy animations support more than 15 different motion easing techniques to achieve true arcade-style and natural looking movement , scaling or rotation.

    Sprite Candy can handle animation tasks automatically ("set and forget"), so you can save lots of time and focus on the essentials of your game. Automated visual- and animation effects can be applied to any object at any time. You can even combine different effects to create countless animation variations. You can also apply several animation effects at once, using different time delays, and let Sprite Candy process them sequentially (or trigger them after a certain time, for example).

    Sprite Candy also features a compact shadow engine. Spice-up your game's visual look by adding dropshadows, color gradients, colored backgrounds or borders to any object at any time.

    Sprite Candy minimizes complex tasks to simple commands, keeping your code as short (and fast!) as possible.


    SPRITE CANDY MAIN FEATURES:

  • Full-featured tools and editors included:
  • Font Candy bitmap font editor
  • Collision shape editor
  • Powerful image packer

  • Ultra-fast single surface render engine
  • Move, scale, mirror, flip, rotate, colorize or alpharize objects at highspeed!
  • Set individual vertex colors and transparency
  • Scrollable texts (including automatic scroll bars)
  • All objects can be grouped on layers, making them easy to handle and maintain
  • Unlimited number of HUDs, layers and objects
  • Customizable collision shapes for precise collision detection
  • Extensive text control (wrapping, text alignment, font, shadows, etc.)
  • Supports multiple viewports, works at all resolutions
  • Full z-order control of individual objects, layers and HUDs
  • More than 150+ powerful and easy-to-use commands to assist your game creation!
  • Powerful game effects: apply them once and let Sprite Candy do them automatically!
  • Retrieve object properties like alpha, visibility, color etc. at any time
  • Collision detection commands (also work with rotated objects, of course)
  • Pixel-sharp (non-anti-aliased) texts and images
  • Supports multiple images on a texture to save memory, optimize loading times
  • Load common animation strips, create animations using a single command!
  • Easy button creation and button event evaluation
  • Create nice text- and image buttons within seconds
  • Customizable color gradients
  • Change an image's content at any time without reloading
  • Animated images (manual or automatic animation)
  • Create tiled images (also animated ones!)
  • Add realtime-shadows, colored backgrounds and frames to all objects
  • Create scrolling texts easily!
  • Create scrolling planes and backgrounds
  • Create shapes (rectangles, lines, circles, triangles, stars and more) on the fly
  • Create percentage bars (progress bars) using a single command only
  • Create rippled (underwater-like) texts
  • Align objects on screen, independent from current screen resolution!
  • Natural looking movements, scaling, rotating using 16 different easing methods!
  • NEW: Now including a lightning-fast GUI to create 3D-accelerated windows and gadgets!

  • Complete, detailed online documentation - each command explained!
  • Many simple, easy-to-read code samples and a complete demo game!
  • More to come..!

    • INCLUDES: 3D-ACCELERATED GUI

    Sprite Candy now also includes a GUI extension to create lightning fast, accelerated windows and gadgets that can be used to build a game menu within seconds. The GUI extension is very easy to use and will keep your code as clean as possible. It's main features are:

  • Full hardware acceleration
  • Fastest GUI available (using 3D-acceleration, single-surface and smart redraw techniques)
  • No constant redrawing neccessary (unlike a common 2D GUI)
  • Easy to use
  • ALL Sprite Candy FX-effects and image commands can be used with any window
  • Windows can be colorized, zoomed, or even rotated (while keeping fully functional!)
  • Transparent windows (can be set individually for each window or for the complete GUI)
  • Custom skins
  • Change / load skins during runtime ("hot swap")
  • Skins support masked transparency (to create rounded corners or even bullet holes, for example)
  • Window shadows
  • Each window can be handled exactly like a Sprite Candy image. This means you can move it, rotate it, scale it, change it's transparency, colorize it or apply any Sprite Candy effect!


    • INCLUDES: FONT CANDY STUDIO!
    Sprite Candy includes Font Candy Studio, a full-featured, powerful bitmap font editor to create awesome bitmap fonts in no time.

    Font Candy Studio is an easy-to-use, but flexible and powerful bitmap font editor to create aweful bitmap fonts within minutes! Font Candy Studio has been especially designed to work with the Sprite Candy FX Engine, but can also be used as a stand-alone editor that exports to many image and data formats. Font Candy Studio offers many font effects, full export control and powerful post-processing filters.


    INCLUDES: IMAGE PACKER TOOL

    Sprite Candy package also contains a powerful image packing tool to easily place your seperate image files together on a texture. The image packer loads many image formats (also GIFs, for example) and export textures into many formats, too. When exporting a texture, the tool automatically generates the Sprite Candy code to load these images.

    You can set a custom masking color and be able to check the proper transparency of all images at any time. While placing the images on the texture, you can still edit them with your paint program and reload/refresh them with a single button click at any time. You can save a project to continue your work at a later time, too.

    This image packer is already included with the Sprite Candy package.


    INCLUDES: SHAPE EDITOR

    This easy-to-use shape editor allows you to create collision shapes for your images. The saved shape data files can be loaded into Sprite Candy at any time. Since the shape data is saved in simple text format, you can even edit such a file manually, when needed.


    ©2004,2005 Mike Dogan / X-PRESSIVE.COM
    X-PRESSIVE.COM is a label and working title of Mike Dogan, est. 1999
    All artwork, including graphics, text, images and sounds are property of Mike Dogan, X-PRESSIVE.COM. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved.