2D-Engine Devlog #3

Toml Resource Files 💾

I spent most of the last 5 hours getting the c toml library i’ve been using to work in my engine. This involved extending the library to support printing toml files, so they can be generated in code ^_^ This is particularly useful for replacing corrupt files and auto-generating files like settings and keybinds…

Recursive parsing for nested toml tables 🔁

Since seperating keys in toml with dots means creating a table (this feature is awesome and annoying at the same time 😭 ), i had to find a way to parse nested tables. I did this using recursion and have used it in both the language file loader and the keybinds loader so far!

I also had to figure out a way to parse tables that are part of a nested table for some cases. I did that with a check that looks ahead at the next table’s values and ensures that they are also tables.

More asset loading 🖼️

Finally got around to implementing more of the Asset Loader. It now supports shaders (which were a bit tricky due to consisting of fragment and vertex shaders). I also added loading for sounds 🎶