About Asphyre eXtreme

 

Asphyre eXtreme is a framework of Delphi VCL components for creating video games and other interactive applications. The included components fall into the following categories:

 

• Extensive 2D Support:
• Simple primitives like lines, rectangles, circles, etc.
• Drawing images with transformation (rotation, shearing, stretching, etc) and multiple blending effects.
• Easily draw to render targets and then use them as source images to draw on the screen. 
• Dynamic textures support: modify the contents of textures quickly and then use them either in 2D or for 3D models.
• Advanced multi-pass effects using multi-texturing
• Displaying text with fonts rendered with included Font Tool. The text can have multiple styles (shadow, emboss), can be stretched and can also contain text tags.
• Robust and extendible particle engine capable of displaying explosions, lens and other effects.

 

 

• GUI Support + WYSIWYG editor:
• Completely customizable controls
• Easy to use and add to Asphyre applications
• Support for transparency and multiple drawing effects
• 4-corner gradients with alpha-channel support for making very user-friendly interfaces
• Labels, Edit boxes, List boxes, Buttons and other controls implemented
• Robust set of classes with possibility of creating custom GUI controls.

 

• Limited 3D support:
• Load and draw static models.
• Provided a complete math unit with an addition of high-level matrix class.
• Native billboard technique support for explosions, smoke and other visual 3D effects.
• Facing primitives which can be "drawn" easily, like if it was in 2D - for volumetric explosions, trees and other effects.
• High-level camera class.
• Multiple light and material support.
• Cube textures and environment mapping, which can be set easily with few calls.
• Rendering to render targets with depth-buffer.
• Native multi-texturing support.

 

• Precise timing for displaying in real-time:
• Draw as fast as possible, process (move objects, for instance) at constant speed.
• Limit rendering speed to specific value - uses a fraction of CPU's time, while delivering best rendering performance.
• Latency and frame rate calculation.

 

• Input Handling:
• Keyboard support - retreive status of individual keys, detect key presses and releases, etc.
• Mouse support - mouse displacement and button state.
• Joysticks support - use any number of joysticks with any number of buttons, axes, POVs, etc.

 

• Networking:
• Guaranteed and non-guaranteed packets over UDP protocol
• Packet serializing for rejecting packets that were previously received
• Data compression for optimized bandwidth use
• Easy-to-use and highly optimized
• Bandwidth usage information and other debugging routines

 

• Native media storage:
• Put all images, fonts and other data files in a single "ASDb" file.
• The archive compression is compared to ZIP format and sometimes can even be better.
• Optionally, 64-bit Blowfish encryption can be used to encode the stored content and prevent third-party from viewing its contents.