FlexiGUI - Alpha Windows Example
This short video is demonstrating a couple of new features of the FlexiGUI library. The first is that the library supports windows to be create in different image formats, such as Video /FX and AFX, which in turn allows for the addition of the variable alpha blending to the window rendering
IDE LESSON - How To Load & Run Examples
This video is aimed those new to PlayBasic IDE, and tries to give the user a quick overview of how to load and run one any of the included examples.
YAAC (Yet Another Asteroids Clone)
Fairly simple asteroids demo with various special effects applied, such as Blur-O-Vision and particles
Spooky Shadows
2D lighting and shadows tech demo. This one makes use the PlayBasics world and ray intersection features to model light. This is then rendered as lightmap and merged with the background.
Parallax Platformer Tech Demo
This is updated version of the standard 2D platform game that comes with PlayBasic. Except this version has a number special effects jammed into it, just to test everything out all at once
After tinkering with various video capturing packages and not really loving the results, I ended up deciding to just write some wrapper functions for saving an AVI streams (video only) from within a PB program. While this won't suit everything, it's turning out to be relatively painless to implement into an existing project.
To use the AVI wrapper, require a few steps, due to needing to move the image data from PB into a window bitmap, so the AVI writer it happy. So we're drawing our FX screen as normal (it won't work on Video images!), then copying this to a Windows Bitmap so we can dump it to the Avi stream. Actually, what I find works best, is first copying the FX screen to another 1/2 sized screen, then copying to it the windows bitmap and dumping that to the avi stream. Which kills two birds with one stone, 1) it lowers the bandwidth and 2) it allows for the screen image to be post filtered...
Anyway, the main reason for wanting to do this is just to make a manually creating videos for YouTube of PB games/app's a little easier and without the need for buying 3rd party app's..
Video=PlayBasic Write AVI Test (Sparkles) - Demo Src
