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{{Infobox Software
| name = Ness-Engine
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption =
| developer = Ronen Ness
| latest_release_version = '''1.4.3'''
| latest_release_date = November 01, 2014
| latest_preview_version =
| latest_preview_date =
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[Video game]]
| license = [[zlib License|zlib]]
| website = [http://www.ness-engine.com/|ness-engine.com]
}}
'''Ness-Engine''' is an [[open source]] 2D rendering engine written in [[C++|C++]] under the [[zlib License|zlib]] license.<ref name="ness-engine.com">http://www.ness-engine.com/</ref> It uses [[Simple DirectMedia Layer|SDL2.0]] for rendering and event handling.
== Design ==
The engine is primarily designed for an [[object-oriented]] approach to scene rendering; Every renderable object in the engine is either an entity or a scene node arranged in a [[Scene graph]] structure, transformations and other rendering effects are inherited from parent nodes to their sons.
== Languages ==
The engine is written in [[C++]] and currently have no bindings to other languages.
== Features ==
Ness-Engine provides the following graphic functions:
* [[Sprite (computer graphics) | Sprites]]:
** Support scaling, rotation, flipping, alpha blending, mod and additive blending, color tinting and opacity.
** Render on sprites, masking using external texture.
** Sprite sheet animation.
** Extendable sprite class.
* Rendering utilities:
** Built-in [[Z-order | z-ordering]].
** 2D lighting effects.
** [[Particle system | 2D Particles system]].
** 2D Camera object with limits and auto-focusing on given target.
** Built-in [[Tile engine | tile engine]], extendable into [[Isometric graphics in video games and pixel art | Isometric tile engine]].
** Built-in background scrolling / [[Parallax scrolling | Parallax scrolling]].
** Rendering targets that allows to render an entire scene or node onto a texture or sprite.
** Static nodes to render massive amount of static entities with low cost.
* Text:
** Built in text object with multi-lines support.
** Text supports all Sprite transformations and effects.
** Replaceable fonts, support any ttf format.
* File Types:
** Support textures from file types: [[Graphics Interchange Format | GIF]], [[BMP file format | BMP]], [[Portable Network Graphics | PNG]], [[JPEG | JPEG]].
* Input:
** Keyboard/mouse input manager.
* Shapes:
** Render shapes.
** filled/outlined.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.ness-engine.com/ Official website]
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