Oct 2020

Changelog

New Additions

• added new Tween class
• added new AnimationManager class
• added new Anchor class

Updates, Changes, and Fixes

• Timer
  • added reset()
  • added active
  • added get_remaining()
  • made paused public
• EventBus
  • added set_active()
• StringExt
  • allow single line comments (.jsonc) in parse_json()
• FloatExt
  • added rand()
• ArrayExt
  • added chunk()
  • made functions generic instead of leaning on Dynamic
• Vec2
  • added in_circle()
  • added rad_between()
• AStar
  • made los() public
• Simplified documentation all around

Feb 2020

Changelog

New Additions

• Added new Timer class
• Added new GOAP class
• Added new Vec3 class
• Added new SyncedSin class
• Added new AStar class, improves on ArrayExt.a_star()

Updates, Changes, and Fixes

• ArrayExt
  • Added equals()
  • Added remove_duplicates()
  • Removed a_star()
• FloatExt
  • Added get_random_gaussian()
• StringExt
  • Added parse_json()
• ECS
  • Changed ISystem to System, no longer uses an Interface.
• Rect
  • Added equals()
• IntPoint
  • Simplified toString()
• Color
  • Added to_hex_24()
• OgmoUtils
  • Fixed get_grid_layer()
• EventBus
  • Removed Dynamic names in favor of Strings
  • Renamed register_listener() to listen()
  • Renamed deregister_listener() to unlisten()
  • Renamed deregister_all() to unlisten_all()
• Achievements
  • Removed Dynamic names in favor of Strings
• Vec2
  • Added radians
• Vec2, Vec3, Vec4, Rect, Color, IntPoint
  • Fixed underused recycling when instantiating from array
  • Fixed memory leaks (thanks @AustinEast)

Mostly Docs Update

Fixes:

• Fixed bug with Color.from_int32()

Changes:

• Changed FloatExt.to_vec4() to FloatExt.to_color()
• Changed functionality of StringExt.get_random()
• Changed Color.rgba_to_hex() to Color.to_hex()
• Improved docs in source!
• All docs now in API rather than Wiki!

New Additions:

• Added normalize() and denormalize() back to Range
• Added Color.equals()
• Added EventBus to utilities
• Added EnumExt to extensions
• Added Achievements to utilities
• Added zero.extensions.Tools as a way to save time using all of the extensions

The Great Zerolib Schism of 2019

This update removes ALL dependencies for zerolib, so this library is no longer a flixel utility library, but a generic haxe utility library! You can find all of the old flixel stuff (plus some new updates) over at zerolib-flixel!

Updated:

• moved all classes from zero.ext to zero.extensions
• moved all classes from zero.util to zero.utilities
• added functionality like a_star() to ArrayExt
• IntPoint gets rewritten and adds lots of functionality
• Range also gets rewritten and adds lots of functionality

New! ✨:

• Vec2 replaces Vector and has tons of functionality
• Vec4 takes cues from Vec2 - seriously tons of functionality
• Rect gets extended from Vec4 and adds Rectangle functionality
• Color also gets extended from Vec4 and has lots of cool color functionality
• ECS is a simple and tiny implementation of an Entity-Component-System in Haxe
• LineOfSight is an implementation of a simple line of sight algorithm from roguebasin
• OgmoUtils is an all in one utility for loading levels from OGMO Editor
• PRNG is a simple pseudo random number generator

This update breaks a lot of stuff so I hope it's worth it!
(by the way I sort of nuked the repo so I wouldn't have to deal with git stuff so check older releases if you want a legacy version 👍 )

Jan 2019 Update

New Additions

• Added fake 3D Stacks
• Added RichText
• Added ZFont, BitsyFont
• Added NineSliceBox
• Added Grid
• Added TopDownWalker Component
• Added ColorMix and FourColor shaders
• Added SquaresIn substate

Updates

• Added snap_to_grid(), limit() to FlxPointExt
• Added optional protection from destroy() to Controller
• Added tags to Entity
• Added util_int, util_bool, util_color to FireOptions
• Added to_vec4, flxpoint_from_angle to FloatExt
• Added median, get_xy(), set_xy() to ArrayExt
• Added manual control to PlatformerDolly using SHIFT in debug mode
• Added active, and set_active() to Components
• Added ability to jump through one way platforms in PlatformerJumper

Changes

• Changed ZBitmapText to BitmapText
• Changed flxutil.editors to flxutil.formats

Fixes

• Fixed velocity in ParticleEmitter
• Fixed Joypad not updating
• Fixed KillAfterTimer callback

Particle Emitter

• Particle Emitter ✨
• Added flatten() to ArrayExt
• Added csv_to_int_array() to StringExt
• Nothing is required to initialize an entity
• Set PlatformerDolly's target to null and manually move it if you'd like

0.3.2

• fixed classpath error, woops

Travis CI integration

• Added zerolib to Travis CI

ZOME loader, demo components

• Added loader for ZOME (https://01010111.itch.io/zome) level files
• Added some demo components:
  • PlatformAnimator
  • PlatformJumper
  • PlatformWalker