Devlog #2 - Implementing more core systems

Finished packet sending and receiving

This should hopefully be the last piece of packet infrastructure required for the engine. It was mainly about encoding and decoding the packets properly, managing the sub processes and handling the shared resources.

Implemented text rendering

Next, I implemented the render command for drawing text to the screen. Like all rendering actions, the text drawing is stored as a command in an array that keeps the order and then applied at the end of the current game loop iteration. It supports custom font sizes and colors, but I still have to add support for custom fonts in the future.

Implemented keyboard and mouse input and keymaps

After text rendering i added events for keyboard and mouse input. This only handles the keys/mouse buttons being pressed and released. For checking if the key or button is held down, one can simply use a function.

On top of that i also added keymaps that allow for easy keybinds with default keys, selecting keys or mouse buttons for an action, reseting and saving to a toml file.

Started working on a Language Manager

While adding names to the keymap, I realised that a proper engine should also supply a system for easily translating text. So I started adding a very basic translation manager that allows you to set a default locale and then load language files, change the current language…

However both the translation manager and the keymap can not be saved to a config/resource file at the moment. That’s why I am probably gonna have to extend the toml library I used in a previous project to support all those things. Alr, see you next time :3