Events! Joystick support!

New features

Event system

• The input function gets called every time an event is received, and is passed as an argument: Check out the Events wiki page to learn about the events avaliable in Luna
• Now the keys and mousekeys tables do not hold a state, they are used to check against event.key or event.button
• Global variables mouseX and mouseY have been removed, use event.x and event.y on a mouse moved event

Frame time

• The render function now receives an argument, the time elapsed since the last frame, this is useful to make smooth animations

Functions

• setMouseVisible(boolean) lets you hide or show the cursor

Improvements

• The input function is called when there is an event, not once every frame

Major bugfixes with shape objects

Fixes

• Fixed object instances not saving some of their properties
• Fixed multiple instances of an object having the same identifier
• Fixed missing libraries in some macOS versions

Improvements

• Luna VSC extension now fetches the latest version from its own file to prevent it from trying to download a version that isn't released at that moment
• Using SSE2 in Windows

Vectors, particles and more!

New features

Functions

• Added function fullscreen() as a shortcut for size(0,0,"")
• Added function setLogLevel(logLevel)

Extensions

• Added vector extension
• Added particles extension
• Added simplemap extension

Command line arguments

• You can use -v or --version to check your Luna version
• You can use -a or --arguments to pass arguments to your Lua program
• You can use -f or --file to select the file you want Luna to run

Improvements

• Removed unique pointers except for sf::RenderWindow

Fixes

• Luna crashes if mouse is out of bounds and mouseX or mouseY are used

Outlines! noLoop! Full VS Code support!

New features

• Added outline_color and outline_thickness properties, you can set them with the methods setOutlineColor and setOutlineThickness
• Added noLoop function. This function lets you stop the sketch without closing it

Visual Studio Code

• You can now create Luna projects in Windows, Linux and MacOS with the Luna VS Code extension

Bugs

• On MacOS you have to reload VS Code after creating a project in order to run it

Origin & Rotation! Custom window icons!

New features

• Added new properties: origin, rotation
• You can now put a custom window icon using the icon(iconPath) function
• Standalone version of the program, used by Visual Studio Code

Extensions! Custom Shapes! VS Code integration and much more!

New features

Visual Studio Code integration

• There is now a VS Code extension avaliable for Luna, which provides code snippets, commands and keybindings for easy testing of your game!
• You can download it here or searching for Luna inside VS Code extensions.

Windows installer

• You can download luna-0.7-12_setup.exe, install Luna and run it from anywhere using luna in a terminal

Other features

• You can now add your own extensions to Luna in the res/lua/extensions folder and load them with require. Example of usage: If you have an extension like this: ./res/lua/extensions/myExtension/init.lua, you load it using require 'myExtension'
• Added custom shapes: You can make a custom shape using the customShape class like this: customShape:new{ points = { {x1, y1}, {x2, y2}, {x3, y3} } }
• Added read-only luna table for luna variables. Example: luna.version
• Default window if no app is loaded

Improvements

• Windows build now has a logo

Fixes

• Textbox doesn't save custom properties

Fullscreen mode! Multiple languages! Configurations!

New features

• You can enable fullscreen mode setting width and height to 0 in the size function: size(0, 0, "My Luna game")
• Configuration file!
• Support for multiple languages, English and Spanish right now. You can change it setting lang=en to lang=es in the Luna configuration file.

Improvements

• Better error messages when a file is not found, setup or render functions are not found, or there are errors in them

HSV color! New properties! New functions!

New features

• The objects circle and rectangle are now ellipseShape and rectangleShape
• Circles are now ellipses, you can change their x_size and y_size, on ellipseShape you can use xradius and yradius properties.
• Added HSV color support! You can use these functions:
  • hsva(hue, saturation, value, alpha)
  • hsv(hue, saturation, value)
  • hue(hue)
• Added frameRate(fps_limit) function, set it to 0 if you want unlimited fps
• Added exit() function to exit the program from anywhere in your code
• Added volume property to sound objects, you can set it in the constructor or with the
  method setVolume( volume ), the parameter must be a number between 0 and 100
• Added loop property to sound objects, you can set it in the constructor or with the
  method setLoop(wantToLoop)

Improvements

• Simplified Sketch class for less function calls
• Organised code for better mantainability

Fixes

• Can't change color of lines

Big update! Modules, mouse clicks, logging!

New features

• Module system: You can add your own extension modules by putting them in the res/lua folder and loading them in modules.lua
• Mouse clicks: You can check if a mouse button is pressed the same way you are used to do with keyboard keys. Look at the avaliable mouse buttons here
• Added -v and --version parameter to see what version of Luna you are using
• Added stop function to sound objects

Improvements

• Textbox objects now have their own cache.
• Removed sound functions and implemented them in addObject and editObject functions.
• Major refractor of the code for easier reading

Fixes

• Text now has a 'color' property, you can set it in your constructor or using the setColor method

Collision detection and more properties on object construction

• Added to circle these functions: dist(other_circle) and collide(other_circle)

• Added to rectangle this functions: collide(other_rectangle)

• You can add color and texture in your constructor