Upcoming Features

The following features are planned for Blackspirit Graphics 2.0 feature releases. (e.g. 2.1.0, 2.2.0)

Feature enhancements:

• JOGL 2 port of Blackspirit Graphics
• Create and release buffers of existing images to gain more control over memory usage
• Copy AWT BufferedImage content to an images buffer
• Control over mouse display (visibility, image)
• Access to top and left coordinates of RealtimeCanvas to know where it's located on screen

Video:

• Video renderer to get images from a video source
• GStreamer integration for video renderer

Particle System:

• Multiple emitters
• Pedigree format support from Slick2D
• Generic so particles can be extended

Current Features

The following features are present in the current Blackspirit Graphics 2.0 release.

Drawing properties:

• Color
• Drawing Modes (Alpha Blend, Alpha Add, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Overriding)
• Transformations (Translation, Rotation, Scaling)
• Color component masking (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha)

Primitive drawing operations:

• Point (only of pixel size 1)
• Single or multiple lines with optional color per end point (only with pixel line width 1)
• Single or multiple triangle outlines with optional color per point (only with pixel line width 1)
• Single or multiple filled triangles with optional texturing and color per point

Images:

• Supported images include: PNG (recommended), JPG, GIF, BMP (TGA with ImageIO Plugin)
• Image and sub image drawing
• Draw on images (to image cache). Exactly the same as drawing on a canvas
• Buffered images for procedural Image creation (like video rendering)
• Update image cache from buffer
• Update image buffer from cache
• Copy current content of a graphics context into an images cache

Text:

• Based on AWT fonts
• Text drawing
• Get text bounds without drawing

Shapes:

• Shapes defining area and outline
• Optional texturing and color per point
• Factory for common Shapes (Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, etc.)
• Utility for manual creation of Shapes based on outlines and cut-outs (concave polygons supported)
• Utility for creation of common polygon outlines to be used for shape creation (Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, etc.)

Animation:

• Sub images as frames (from multiple images)
• Generic so frame class can be extended

Utilities:

• Color gradient utility to populate buffered images and retrieve color for specific points
• AWT utility helps converting buffered images to AWT images (saving AWT images is easy using ImageIO)