ozz-animation VS specs

I really like the C++ ozz-animation library, and Rust doesn't have a good answer for it (yet! work is being done) It has a really great compressed animation data format that again is good for the web It also has a great runtime library for distributing animation calculations across separate cores

I'm not sure that even Sokol has animation support built in. The animation sample appears to use OZZ Animation, which could probably be used with the other rendering libraries too.

http://guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/ for animations

On the otherhand, if I was going to pull in some code/an existing animation system, I have been interested in messing with https://github.com/guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation. It is pretty cool. There is a separate runtime/engine code from whatever editor/asset management you use. I've been toying with the idea of maybe pulling it into Jedi Academy.

The question arises from seeing a plethora of projects using ECS: hecs , Bevy , specs, legion

Instead, I'm using now the specs Library. It's a pure ECS library and much less powerful, without any visualization capabilities, but its works for me :)

writing an ECS is defined a challenging project, no matter the language or if you're a beginner. although it is entirely possible to write one in Rust, check out specs and bevy_ecs for examples.

specs

The official 3d rendering client uses a custom engine called Voxygen. They use Specs for logic.

Rust has a delightful ECS library, specs, that I absolutely love. It has safe multi-threaded execution built right in, which is fantastic for the pretty parallelizable work I was doing. Concurrency in C++ is nasty business on the best of days, and I've run into so many nasty bugs with the custom system I've had to build out to fit the web's weird threading model.

Man, this Specs [0] library is so strange to me, coming from a Unity background. Is there some sort of comparison as to why one way is better than the other?

[0] https://specs.amethyst.rs/

Hi everyone - I just picked up one of my long-unfinished side project built with Rust and would like to show it to you here. It's a clone of the famous(?) Winterbells game. It's written entirely in Rust and uses OpenGL and an entity-component-system architecture ([the `specs` crate](https://crates.io/crates/specs)) (still learning), no game engine.

Wait did the person at your company write specs or something else because they weren't pleased with it? I don't know much about amethyst and vaguely know about entity component systems but I watched a talk on someone making a game with amethyst and was pretty impressed -- it looked thoroughly approachable and I do not doubt the performance is there (since the whole reason you do ECS is performance).