Zwoptex isn’t ending at 1.0.0 though the development will probably slow slightly for the next few weeks as some stuff that was put off over the past two months needs to get done.

With that in mind there’s a few short term goals and long term goals.

Short Term:

• Website
  • Website will be migrating from php to Django to allow for better scalability
  • Documentation to be added with some video tutorials
• App
  • Option to export in different for the coordinates list ( de-coupling Zwoptex from specificly being used with cocos2d ). Cocos2d will still be heavily supported but so will more generic use of the tool with any OpenGL based application.

Long Term:

• Sprite inspector – Panel that will show details about an individual sprite and allow some basic editing.
• Sprite aliasing – Through the sprite inspector the ability to add/remove alias’s that the sprite is known as. This allows “grossini_01.png” to be seen as itself as well as “grossini_02.png”.
• Merge & Alias Feature – Feature that automatically finds duplicate sprites and merged then into a single sprite with Alias’s.
• Edge Padding  - This feature would allow you to pad the edges of a sprite with an extra 1-2 pixels of data. Thus making OpenGL always get a solid rectangle and avoid lines or artifacts when using sprites in tiles.

With all of that said there isn’t any hard timelines though it would be optimal to get most of this wrapped up by early August.

-Robert