请别在工作死🌸I sometimes like working on never-to-be-finished video game projects
Right now I'm making a game called Chronicles.
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I maintain a Letterboxd in much the way that I assume people maintain bonsai trees.
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I've talked a few times about how I'm replicating the design of Dear ImGui for my in-game UI
I now have the popup system working! Simple popups like context menus or dropdowns will dismiss if you click away from them, and then modal popups will disable everything under them until they are dismissed.
Also shown: Tooltips!
Very nice!
Out of curiosity, what made you replicate ImGUI instead of incorporate it? Maybe building your game for an older platform?
Imgui is definitely far too heavyweight for my needs in-game, I actually use it for the engine and all the tools, and the final EGA framebuffer draws via an imgui drawlist call inside a viewer window.
I considered potentially hooking up custom renderer and platform backends to it to make it work with the EGA rendering but in the end the amount of styling and custom work to get it to do the simple things I need would amount to more or less the time I'm spending making my own system.
And it feels good understanding the inner workings of that thing enough to implement it myself 😂
Makes a lot of sense! Very cool.
I imagine that experience implementing your own EGA system could translate into a cool article or conference talk, if you were so inclined ✨
