Proposal: Utility classes and methods

[GuilhermeF03]

Goal

Create utility classes and methods to smooth usage of engine featues

Note

These features are to be delayed after release of 0.1.0.

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1. Asset Registry

What is it?

A registry that holds loaded assets to be used

How the user uses it:

inside any block, it calls it similar to this:

resources {
    texture("player.png")
    sound("jump.wav")
    font("ui.ttf", size = 18)
} // Load data in batch 

Problems:

• Handle resources lifetime, scope, etc...

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Lazy asset loading

What is it?

Simple lazy asset loading

How the users use it?:

val playerTexture by asset<Texture>("player.png")

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Screen utilities

What is it?

Utilities for transition, load, unload screens

How users would use it?

// Load into a registry - can be used for fast loads
app.load{ Screen() }

app.transition<Screen>(){
// transition config
}

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Manager utilities

What is it?

Utility methods for managers, instead of explicit holding references to them

How would users use it?

scene{
 // use scene manager
}

inject<Type>() // same as ManagersRegistry.get(InjectionManager::class).inject<Type>()

// lazy version
val physics by inject<PhysicsSystem>()