2D Engines

[FyberOptic]

Hiya folks. *I was wondering if anyone else had any experience with any of the 2d engines available out there. *I don't need a lot of features; mostly just rotation, scaling, and maybe alpha-channel support. *I prefer using DirectX7 types of interfaces, so that I can directly blit right onto a surface and such, though that of course doesn't do the features I want on its own. *Using DirectX8 can, but it's just not the same when you have to turn everything into 2d planes; it's overly complicated for the kinds of things I'd like to do, and can never do things exactly as I'd like.

I've heard of http://www.clanlib.org/ , which seems to be pretty good, but I was wondering if there might be any others worth looking into. *I've looked around myself but I end up finding lots of junk, or ones which are mostly 3d with some 2d elements thrown in.

Anyhoo, thanks in advance!

-FyberOptic
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Quote[/b] (FyberOptic @ Dec. 12 2004,16:07)]Hiya folks. *I was wondering if anyone else had any experience with any of the 2d engines available out there. *I don't need a lot of features; mostly just rotation, scaling, and maybe alpha-channel support. *I prefer using DirectX7 types of interfaces, so that I can directly blit right onto a surface and such, though that of course doesn't do the features I want on its own. *Using DirectX8 can, but it's just not the same when you have to turn everything into 2d planes; it's overly complicated for the kinds of things I'd like to do, and can never do things exactly as I'd like.

I've heard of http://www.clanlib.org/ , which seems to be pretty good, but I was wondering if there might be any others worth looking into. *I've looked around myself but I end up finding lots of junk, or ones which are mostly 3d with some 2d elements thrown in.

Anyhoo, thanks in advance!

-FyberOptic
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