The Sandy 2.0 version was created to continue offering a version in AS2 (ActionScript 2.0) that has the Sandy 3.0 features (a big difference from the 1.x versions).

The core engine is almost 80% new !
Thomas has updated all the process pipeline, from computation, to screen display.

The new code has several advantages :

• Faster ! The new architecture is now more optimized and much better than the previous 1.x versions. Some benchmarks will be done later.
• Simpler ! I finally decided to use the power of ActionScript getter/setter methods. Now objects and transformable groups have the same possibilities as the camera. Moreover, the transformable objects have some fast access properties such as, x, y, z instead of needing to use the object's rotateX(), rotateY(), rotateZ(), roll(), pitch(), and yaw() methods to rotate the camera.
• Possibilities and extensions reach a new scale. Creating a new material (formerly Skin) is simpler and really powerful.
• The camera can be part of the scene graph, as a simple object. Very powerful to rotate it and place it behind an object (or a character).
• Better and much powerful event system based on Bubbling architecture. Basically it allows user to catch an event anywhere on the scene graph.

See porting_12_20 for details on upgrading your code to Sandy 2.0.

The Sandy 2.0 release is the result of quite a lot of personal effort. Even though I had some really cool contributors (thanks guys!), I did most of the core development alone, and that explains why this release isn't yet stable.
Quite a few features are missing in comparison to the 1.x releases. Missing are :

• some parsers (easy to port them, mainly with the supplied examples)
• internal interpolations (but quite easy to create some Tweener wrappers, or pixlib one!)

On the google code SVN : http://sandy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sandy/as2/branches/2_0/ you'll find the correct pixlib version, the sandy source code, and some test examples.

See sourcecode for details.

See contributing for details on becoming a contributor.