Hey folks!
Time for another extension inspired by the Zelda-like game we’ve been working on for stream. I present: riknoll/arcade-drawing-utils
This extension has some notable improvements over the base drawing blocks in the image category:
- All x/y coordinates in the drawing functions are represented by points rather than two numbers. You can also use sprites or tilemap locations wherever a point is accepted
- All of the target image shadow blocks are replaced with the screen by default
- The fill and outline blocks are combined with a dropdown to switch between
- Adds circles, triangles, and four sided polygons
- Adds a block for drawing a thick line in addition to the usual 1-pixel wide lines
- Adds a block for copying part of an image to another image
- Adds a block for drawing tilemaps to the screen (great for games with multiple tilemaps)
In addition to drawing, there are some other new transform blocks for some nifty image effects:
- Lots of blocks for swapping colors in images
- A new block for scrolling images by an x/y value
- A block for rotating images in 90 degree increments
Finally, this extension also provides lots of way for you to make custom render functions that draw to the screen:
- Render on z (just like the similar block in jwunderl/arcade-sprite-utils)
- A dockable version of render on z that you can place inside a function
- Renderables that can be assigned to variables and destroyed (great for drawing temporary things like effects or menus)
- Blocks for rendering above/below individual sprites. Great for applying effects to sprites like flashing when taking damage or for making sprites that are drawn entirely using shapes
- A loop that loops over all of the tilemap locations that are currently visible on screen (great for Animating tiles in tilemaps)
