It is great to see LuaPlayer receiving some much needed love after all this time… With that said, Zack is back for round 3 — it’s LuaPlayer V3 and it’s better/faster than ever.

Zack reports –

New Features:

1. IntraFont support. You can now load fonts without the huge slowdown the built in font function has. How to use it? Go to Samples/IntraFont for a working example.

Improvements:

1. Speed increase. Roughly between 20>40fps.
2. screen:clear() is now faster.

Bug Fixes:

1. screen:clear() now actually works. (it didn’t in V2).
2. Image alpha on created images, colors, and loaded images now works.
3. 3D things I broke are now fixed (so 3d wise it is the same as .20 was).
4. FPS counter no longer flickers when not using waitVblankStart().
5. Checking for input (i.e pad = Controls.read()) no longer caps the framerate to 60fps. I suggest you use waitVblankStart() if you need to cap it to 60.

Changes:

• Ok, so all of the function names in V1 & 2 have changed. I meant to do this from the beginning but rushed so much I didn’t quite get to it. The function names now ring true to the default LuaPlayer naming convention.

Examples included.

Download: LuaPlayer Euphoria V3

- source: retroemu