SqrMelon

A tool for keyframe animation & fragment shader management for 64k executables.

Manual

An extensive PDF can be found in the repo: https://github.com/trevorvanhoof/sqrmelon/blob/master/SqrMelon%20manual.pdf

Disclaimer

This tool is provided as-is, feel free to use it, contact me if you have any questions.

While I am interested in bug reports and willing to help out, I urge you not to rely on me to fix them within small timeframes!

Beware that bugs & feature requests can be "beyond scope".

Third party

SqrMelon is written with Python2.7 (64 bit) and PyQt4, it also depends on some third party python packages. It comes with an install.txt with the right download links to help you get started. The C++ Player project has some other dependencies, listed below:

In Release it also calls a post-build step which gives the .exe to kkrunchy to get the compressed final binary. http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/ Get the "a" version and put it in SqrMelon/Player/

For audio we nowadays have various defines in "settings.h" that can open up dependencies you can download and use:

define AUDIO_64KLANG2

Requires the following files from https://github.com/hzdgopher/64klang out of Player/Player to be placed in the 64klang2 sub folder like so: 64klang2/sample_t.cpp 64klang2/sample_t.h 64klang2/Synth.cpp 64klang2/Synth.h 64klang2/SynthAllocator.cpp 64klang2/SynthAllocator.h 64klang2/SynthNode.cpp 64klang2/SynthNode.h 64klang2/SynthPlayer.cpp 64klang2/SynthPlayer.h

64klang songs also export a 64k2Patch.h and 64k2Song.h which should be placed in the same folder

define AUDIO_BASS

Requires the following files from Bass 2.4 (from https://www.un4seen.com/download.php?bass24) to be placed next to the other source files: bass.dll bass.h bass.lib

define AUDIO_WAVESABRE

Requires the following files from https://github.com/logicomacorp/WaveSabre to be placed next to the other source files: wavesabreplayerlib.h wavesabrecore.h

define SUPPORT_PNG

Requires the following files from https://github.com/lvandeve/lodepng to be placed next to the other source files: lodepng.h lodepng.cpp

In addition it requires WaveSabreCore.Lib and WaveSabrePlayer.lib, which may easily be built by cloning the entire WaveSabre repo. As of this moment there are no public pre-built release distrubtions.

Other defines

define RESOLUTION_SELECTOR

This requires dialog.rc to be in the project resources. If it is missing or for othe reasons the resource can not be resolved at runtime the app immediately exits before creating any windows.

Feel free to edit Dialog.rc so the resolution selector title matches the title in settings.h!

define SUPPORT_3D_TEXTURE

I have not used this in ages, but it should still work! It allows you to render a pass as horizontal strip of 3D texture slices, which will automatically be rendered and cast to 3D texture. I used it to create static 3D volume textures for clouds in Eidolon.