2023-11-25 01:39:49 +02:00
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- "premade" (but also customizable) ui elements (buttons, text boxes, etc) with instanced rendering
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- maybe force the window to be a specific resolution (for cudoku only? or all games?)
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- border decorations for shapes (maybe. or maybe only for ui elements)
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2023-11-23 04:05:15 +02:00
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- remove the hardcoded 1920 and 1080 values when applying relative pixel constraints
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and replace them with the screen's currently active resolution
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text rendering improvements
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2023-11-24 23:21:08 +02:00
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- [ ] unicode support (allows for non-ascii characters)
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- unicode support removed for the foreseeable future
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2023-11-23 04:05:15 +02:00
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- [x] atlas texture for text glyphs (this means we only load in one texture for all text)
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2023-11-24 23:21:08 +02:00
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- [x] better estimation of atlas width and height (currently the generated atlas texture
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has a lot of empty space (over 50% of the texture's height))
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- ended up just looping over the ascii glyphs and finding the max width and height
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2023-11-23 04:05:15 +02:00
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- SDF generation allowing for better text scaling (slower but visually better)
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- SDF is too slow if we want to support unicode. it's acceptably fast for ascii only though.
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- An alternative is to use MSDF at a much lower pixel height (e.g 16) which results in
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better scaling than SDF (almost perfect) and is fast enough to include unicode.
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- Another alternative is using a pre-baked SDF texture atlas. This is the fastest
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but it's also the least flexible because we can't load arbitrary fonts
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- Maybe also rendering text as vector using bezier curves. Sounds like a lot of work though.
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Will probably end up using MSDF (if I can get it to work with C lol)
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2023-11-24 23:21:08 +02:00
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- [x] instanced rendering for text (this means we only have to do one draw call for all text)
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running into problems. we got the positions to instance correctly but the texture coordinates
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are more difficult to work with because we can't just send a texcoord per vertex per instance
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- Ended up passing hardcoded texcoords of all glyphs to the shader using a uniform array which allows us to render infinite
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instances of text in one draw call without exceeding any buffer limits. Of course this does mean that if we were to support
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unicode we'd have to make the uniform array bigger and its size dynamic. So unicode is dropped for now
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