News
New simple example project: Pipmak Castle
Have you ever considered using Pipmak for your own projects, but were overwhelmed by all the intricate details in the scripts of the Demo Project? Thanks to James Wilson, we now have an example project that shows how easy it is to make a simple explorable world. Download Pipmak Castle or look on the Showcase page for a small screenshot.
Pipmak 0.2.7 released
Pipmak 0.2.7 has landed, with an assortment of new features: Display of text on patches in arbitrary TrueType fonts, rotation and arbitrary 3D placement of patches, a new Lua command line panel and table inspector to make testing and debugging easier, less awkward handling of fullscreen resolutions, and more.
Download Pipmak for Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux as well as the updated demo project from the download page or read the detailed release notes here.
I do hope to return to a more frequent release schedule in the future!
Pipmak Wiki added
The Pipmak web site now includes a wiki! This is intended as a community-maintained repository of notes, hints, how-tos, answers to frequently asked questions, tutorials, Lua code snippets, and other articles related to Pipmak. It's still somewhat empty at the moment, but I hope it will grow into a useful resource over time. So, if you've got anything to share, any contributions are welcome!
Recent Development Activity
| 2009-10-12 | Fixed a race condition that would under some circumstances cause a "This is a bug, please report" warning and corrupted terminal output when changing the image of a patch. |
| 2009-10-09 | Changed the Linux build-system to link to the Lua libraries dynamically, instead of statically. This change was made because 1) it is generally better to (on Linux systems, at least) link to shared libraries unless there is a specific reason to link statically (such as if the library needs to be configured in an unusual way), and 2) we have no reason to explicitly link to Lua statically, therefore we should link dynamically. (Note: the statements made in reason one are somewhat debatable, and reflect my own opinions to an extent.) |
| 2009-09-26 | Fixed a minor inconsistency. |
| 2009-09-01 | Tidied up "resources-linux/wrapper-CLIconvenience.sh". |
| 2009-06-27 | Added a file "libs.txt" that is to be included in the Linux release tarball. It contains a list (for Linux users only) of (some of the) libraries upon which Pipmak depends. |