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zig-gamedev
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Zig for gamedev?
Two game frameworks in the making: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev & https://github.com/hexops/mach
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Projects / areas of specialization for learning zig
I did a hangman game, I'm doing a file compression tool next. I asked bing chat to recommend beginner projects for zig and that's what it told me. It also suggested a cli calculator and a cli text editor, but I didn't want to do that. My next thing will be something using https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev
- zig-gamedev project: Monthly Progress Report - Feb 2023 (zflecs, zsdl, zopengl and more)
- zig-gamedev project: Monthly Progress Report (January 2023)
- zig-gamedev project: zphysics v0.0.4 - Zig API and C API for Jolt Physics
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Just found out about Zig and wonder what would be the best graphics library to pair with it?
This repo may be useful. It isn't an engine or a renderer, but rather a collection of useful libraries if you do end up writing your own tools. https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev
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Is C++ still the language when entering 3D programming in 2023?
Something like vulkano in Rust or zig-gamedev in zig might be a much more enjoyable approach: They're similarly bare metal languages but have a lot of advantages over C++ (borrow checker's safety, simpler syntax). However, they're not commonly used by big studios.
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Gamedev in zig
I've been working on a gamedev project in zig, using zig-gamedev. It has many libraries you can use, though my game is 2D. Feel free to check out my project if you want to see how I set things up. https://github.com/foxnne/aftersun
- zig-gamedev project - progress report
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
Language-level guarantees of memory safety are not critical to all low-level programmers, and sometimes this is fine!
Developers of games, compilers, digital audio workstations, video editors, and live performance software (such as openFrameworks) likely don't rank memory safety as their top concern.
Zig is already an attractive choice for those domains because it offers:
- Great compile times compared to C++/Rust, and future plans to implement hot reloading as a core part of the tooling: https://www.jakubkonka.com/2022/03/16/hcs-zig.html
- The ability to reason about where data exists in memory: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Where-are-the-byte...
- Good readability and learnability, especially if you have a C/C++ background.
- Comptime that enables clean generics, compile-time reflection and general metaprogramming as a happy side-effect: https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/
- Better tooling than C/C++. The ability to cross-compile Zig and C/C++ from one machine lets you set up much more stable and reproducible build environments already. You can clone zig-gamedev and have the demos working with just three commands on Windows/macOS/Linux, for example, and two of those three are cloning the repo and changing to the directory: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev (to build you will need the latest copy of Zig from the 'masters' section for your platform at https://ziglang.org/download/ )
We should all be careful about insinuating that memory unsafe languages should not exist. I see “friends don't let friends use memory-unsafe languages” on social media and feel sick. It's much healthier to embrace the melting pot of Zig, Odin, D, Beef, Vale, Hare, Lobster, Jai, C3, Val, Roc and all the rest and see what new ideas and trade-offs they bring.
Also worth noting that new languages tend to take time to develop their own philosophies to memory safety (Vale's approach is only just now emerging, for example: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor ). Zig's story might not be great now ( https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/ ), but then it's not Zig's priorty at the moment, and Zig's full story is not yet written.
UnityCsReference
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Anyone know what Unity's Matrix4x4 looks like internally?
I've checked their CS reference code on their Github, both here and here, but I want to dive a little deeper - specifically, I want to know what they're actually doing when determining validity of the Matrix4x4.
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Torn between chossing Unity & C# or going UE5 and C++. What made you choose unity?
Yep, but beyond just decompiling it, the c# layer of code is on GitHub: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference
- 2 minutes of silence for those who bought RTX 3070 and RTX 3070Ti
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Do you use System.Object.ReferenceEquals() ?
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Scripting/UnityEngineObject.bindings.cs (after 2019.1)
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Custom method attribute for Animation Event Functions
The code where the method filtering for the Animation Event Inspector is done, is here (line 190). Is it possible to do something like this? That repository explicitly says:
- Can’t find operation
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Bounds.Encapsulate precision loss?
No reason, you can look at the source of encapsulate
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Modify Project Setting's "Default Quality Level" by script
There isn't really a straight forward way to do this, even the QualitySettings editor uses Serialised Properties to get at the data. (Line 343 in QualitySettingsEditor)
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Has any indie dev got (read-only) access to Unity source? How much did it cost?
This is awesome, thank you! I'm most curious about their Runtime
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Is C++ still the language when entering 3D programming in 2023?
I think if you want to get into graphics programming you do want to work with OpenGL and similar things, because at the very least you need to understand it all (and decide what parts of engines to use and what to ignore when you get to whole games). It's also worth saying that while you can only publicly get the references in Unity you do get source access at the higher subscription tiers you'd use at a game studio.
What are some alternatives?
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
ILSpy - .NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform!
alg - Algebra for Zig
Raylib-CsLo - autogen bindings to Raylib 4.x and convenience wrappers on top. Requires use of `unsafe`
basis_universal - Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec
tinyraycaster - 486 lines of C++: old-school FPS in a weekend
mach - zig game engine & graphics toolkit
astc-encoder - The Arm ASTC Encoder, a compressor for the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression data format.
vos - Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language
oqtane.framework - CMS & Application Framework for Blazor & .NET MAUI