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[pygame] Lepton particle engine 0.7a released



I'm pleased to announce the 0.7 alpha release of Lepton, a high- performance, pluggable particle engine and API for Python. It is designed for creating graphical special effects for games or other visual applications. The engine is designed to be very flexible and does not rely on any other libraries directly. You can use it either with OpenGL (via pyglet, PyOpenGL, wxPython, etc), or with pygame by selecting the appropriate renderer. Examples are provided using pyglet and pygame. Although this is an alpha release, I think it is stable enough to be useful, and I encourage you to give it a try.

The project page is here:

http://code.google.com/p/py-lepton/

You can also get it via pypi here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lepton/

Changes in 0.7a include:

- Fader controller ported to C
- Added per-particle emitter and fireworks example
- Port Line and Plane domains to C
- Port Box domain to C, rename to AABox. deprecate domain.Box for reuse later - Port Sphere domain to C, add support for inner and outer radius for spherical shells
- Bounce controller gets separate bounce and friction parameters
- Improve lame pygame fill example to use new bounce features and be less lame (2.5D, suhweet!) - Implement particle proxy and vector object pools to reduce or eliminate object allocation when iterating and traversing particles from python
- Optimize particle group C typecheck function

If you have questions or comments or would like to contribute, you can join the google group at:

http://groups.google.com/group/py-lepton-users

Enjoy.

-Casey