Selba Ward

[Hapax]

Welcome to Selba Ward!
.................."check in to check it out"



Introduction
Selba Ward is a collection of generic, reusable and flexible drawable objects for SFML.
Now updated for SFML 3!

Objects
Currently available objects:

• Bitmap Text
• Console Screen
• Crosshair
• Elastic Sprite
• Frame Transition
• Gallery Sprite
• Line
• Nine Patch
• Pie Chart
• Pixel Display
• Polygon
• Progress Bar
• Ring
• Spinning Card
• Spline
• Sprite 3D
• Starfield
• Starfield 3D
• Tile Map

Usage
Selba Ward can be built as a single library and then the objects can be included as required (as I use it myself) or the individual objects can be copied into your project and built along with it. The drawable objects are completely independant of each other. However, they will also require the very light Common.hpp header, along with any dependants (e.g. Bitmap Text requires Bitmap Font) or extras (e.g. Palette Enums can be useful with Console Screen)

Future Objects
Small and quick objects can usually be added quite quickly when they are added to the to-do list.
Suggestions will be taken into serious consideration, even larger objects.

SFML
All objects in Selba Ward require SFML version 3+. The latest version is recommended, although some objects may not have been tested with that version.
The "sfml2" branch can be used to use the objects with SFML 2, if you have not yet updated to SFML 3.

Feedback
As always, feedback (on the currently available objects, their interface, or the underlying code) is highly appreciated.
Suggestions for objects will also be taking into consideration.
Please report any problems with specific versions of SFML to me. This thread can be a good place for that.

Demo Animation
Best viewed in 1080 quality and 60 FPS.


Examples

(click to show/hide)

Console Screen
Simple example:

Showing some attributes:


Starfield 3D
Simple example 2:


Sprite 3D
Simple example:


Polygon


Spline
Simple example (thick):

Simple example (thick with rounded corners and caps):

Simple example (thick curve):

Simple example (thick curve with rounded corners and caps):

Simple example (thick and closed with anti-aliasing):

Simple example (per vertex colour and thickness with anti-aliasing):


Elastic Sprite
Simple example (texture):

Simple example (colour):

Simple example (texture and colour):

Simple example (perspective interpolation):


Frame Transition
Simple example 1 (wipe transition):

Simple example 2 (push/slide transition):

Example video of multiple transition forms:


Bitmap Font
Simple example:

Same font and texture as in the simple example but with font setup:


Progress Bar
Simple example:

Example (cropped):


Tile Map
Simple example:


Pie Chart
Simple examples:


Ring
Simple example:


Pixel Display


Nine Patch
Simple example:
Texture:

Screenshot:


Starfield
Simple example:


Crosshair
Simple example:


The code for each "simple example" is provided in the Selba Ward wiki on the object's page. Other examples can be found in the examples folder

Thank you for reading and I hope you find Selba Ward useful!
Selba Ward is available here on GitHub and is under the zLib licence (same as SFML).

EDIT: Added link to Frame Transition in the list, a couple of GIF that show it in action, as well as a link to a video that demonstrates multiple transition forms.

[eXpl0it3r]

Sounds interesting. Thanks for putting together and sharing!

[lolz123]

I see it! draW ableS

[Elias Daler]

I see it! draW ableS

Ha-ha, that's clever

The library looks pretty neat. I looked at the implementation and my implementation of the stuff I use (line and bitmap text) is pretty similar to yours, so now I'm relieved that I did things pretty okay

[Mortal]

that really a cool stuffs, thanks for sharing.
wiki info and min-examples are indeed comprehensive and simpified, i'm sure it will be useful for others

[Hapax]

Sounds interesting. Thanks for putting together and sharing!

I try to share most of my stuff. Eventually 
I would like to develop the objects further so if you have any suggestions for improvements or any new objects, I'll be glad to hear them!

The library looks pretty neat. I looked at the implementation and my implementation of the stuff I use (line and bitmap text) is pretty similar to yours, so now I'm relieved that I did things pretty okay

Thanks! Similarly, it's nice to hear that I did things the right way so it's good to know that you did it in a similar way 

that really a cool stuffs, thanks for sharing.
wiki info and min-examples are indeed comprehensive and simpified, i'm sure it will be useful for others

Thanks and you're welcome!
Others? I use this stuff myself all of the time!
In fact, since I have started to rebuild Faux Car from scratch, I have used a couple of these already for informational purposes (progress bar, for example) and will almost definitely be using Bitmap Text there too!  (The old Faux Car used the original version of Console Screen for the bitmap text display, which I'm rewriting)
New ideas for objects usually come up when I have a need for them. They are then "generified" to be usable in different situations. If you have an idea for an object, let me know!

I see it! draW ableS

Bah! I was hoping it would take longer to be noticed 
(Mini-trivia: I also considered the idea of calling it Selb Award!)

[SeriousITGuy]

Very cool stuff, indeed useful Thanks, as always Hapax.
I will take a look especially at Progressbar, because that's something I want to implement in the next weeks.

[Mortal]

In fact, since I have started to rebuild Faux Car from scratch, I have used a couple of these already for informational purposes (progress bar, for example) and will almost definitely be using Bitmap Text there too!  (The old Faux Car used the original version of Console Screen for the bitmap text display, which I'm rewriting)

this is really a great news that a new version of Faux car will be out soon
(IMHO) Faux car  is top game, specially when you added 3 cameras to the scene, it gives fabulous effect to the game. honestly i don't know how you did that but it is considered a credit for you as experienced programmer. i'm really admire your job in this kind of games. personally i can't wait to see a new version of Faux car.

New ideas for objects usually come up when I have a need for them. They are then "generified" to be usable in different situations. If you have an idea for an object, let me know!

for objects
unfortunately i can understand what you mean by "generified".
for my understanding, there are two kind of objects static and movable, the static objects like trees and billboards ..etc are easy to implements and nothing fancy can be done to them, however the movable objects is indeed worth to experiment a new ideas specially the AI, it is bit trickier but it well make the game more excited.

[Jabberwocky]

Handy stuff, and super clever name!

[Ungod]

Nice.
Is that stuff you did for other projects of yours or do you develop the library as a project itself?

[Hapax]

Handy stuff, and super clever name!

Thank you!

Very cool stuff, indeed useful Thanks, as always Hapax.
I will take a look especially at Progressbar, because that's something I want to implement in the next weeks.

Thanks. Glad you like it!
Why implement it when it's already available to use?

Nice.
Is that stuff you did for other projects of yours or do you develop the library as a project itself?

Thanks!
Most of the objects come from my own necessity. If I end up needing an object more than once, I will usually make a generic version. Using Selba Ward to keep this together also forces me to make sure that each object is separate so I have to remove any use of any libraries I may normally use (usually my own small helper libraries) inside them.
Some have come into existence for other reasons. Spinning Card, for example, was created as a challenge for myself to show how to effectively fake a rotating playing card without using any actual 3D. Sprite3D was then a massive overhaul and improvement on that to actually rotate a sprite in 3D space using only Vertex Arrays.

this is really a great news that a new version of Faux car will be out soon
(IMHO) Faux car  is top game, specially when you added 3 cameras to the scene, it gives fabulous effect to the game. honestly i don't know how you did that but it is considered a credit for you as experienced programmer. i'm really admire your job in this kind of games. personally i can't wait to see a new version of Faux car.

Thank you for your kind words but I would not consider myself to be "experienced".
The camera views were quite simple (although took a lot of exact tweaking): offsets for positions and moving the vanishing point. The car sprite was rendered afterwards to match.
The newer version was created with much more flexibility - the camera can be moved around and the vanishing point can be moved anywhere!
When I get it to a similar point to where it was before, I'll start posting updates in the Faux Car thread 

New ideas for objects usually come up when I have a need for them. They are then "generified" to be usable in different situations. If you have an idea for an object, let me know!

unfortunately i can understand what you mean by "generified".
for my understanding, there are two kind of objects static and movable...

The objects that I was talking about are for here (in Selba Ward) and I invented the word "generified"*. It basically meant to make more generic so that it is transportable and can be used in lots of situations.
*I thought I invented the word but it looks like the internet beat me to it.

the movable objects is indeed worth to experiment a new ideas specially the AI, it is bit trickier but it well make the game more excited.

As for the AI in Faux Car, I'm looking forward to eventually finishing the track drawing engine and creating a track designer so that I can hopefully eventually make a game from it! 

[Tank]

Cool stuff, Hapax! And great presentation -- especially the name is neat.

[Satus]

Progress bar looks cool! Gonna use it.

[Resethel]

thanks for sharing it, that's cool, probably gonna use it

[Hapax]

Cool stuff, Hapax! And great presentation -- especially the name is neat.

Thank you! Much appreciated 

Progress bar looks cool! Gonna use it.

Good to hear!
Remember that the sizes and colours can be customised. It inherits from sf::Transformable too so it can be transformed as usual! 

thanks for sharing it, that's cool, probably gonna use it

Thanks! Glad you like it