Isolated Examples or Game Templates?

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Isolated Examples or Game Templates?

Swivelgames opened this issue 9 months ago · comments

It'd be an awesome way to jump start new users into the game engine if the examples were isolated, or if there were "Game Templates" that provided some pre-implemented game mechanics like the examples show.

Primary motivation here is that the format that the examples are in, and the format that the init script produces, don't immediately parallel.

It would be super helpful if each of the examples were isolated, potentially following a similar layout to fyrox-template init. Although, that could potentially result in duplication of a lot of code.

A bigger ask would be to add an option to fyrox-template init like --example x that would initialize the project with the example implemented in it. That would make it incredibly easy to dive right in and start tweaking different things, while following the layout that init implements.

Summary

examples/ dir does not parallel fyrox-template init layout, potentially making it difficult for newcomers to understand how the examples apply.

Possible Solutions

Add fyrox-template init --name x --example y to initialize a new Fyrox project with the specified example already implemented
Update examples/ to follow fyrox-template init project layout

Dmitry Stepanov · Answer 1 · Sun Sep 03 2023 21:13:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You absolutely right. I though about this many times, but postponed it since I was quite busy in real life and had forces only to implement engine's must-have functionality. I also thought about adding a standard modules, such as character controller etc. to have the most common parts ready to be used right away. Now I have more free time and could start implementing all of this.

Dmitry Stepanov · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 14 2023 03:28:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

So, I created a separate repo for the demo projects - https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox-demo-projects. Now I'll gradually add more and more projects to it and when there will be at least few medium sized demos, I'll delete all the outdated examples from ./examples directory of the engine.

Joseph Dalrymple · Answer 3 · Sun Sep 17 2023 15:55:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nice! I like it! This is great. There are so many good examples in ./examples, but having them mirror the layout of fyrox-template init will be super helpful.

Dmitry Stepanov · Answer 4 · Sun Sep 17 2023 17:02:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeah, I'm currently transferring some of them. However, some of them are kinda useless now, because they were made when there was no editor and the stuff the code does in the examples can be replaced by doing the same in the editor.

Dmitry Stepanov · Answer 5 · Sun Sep 17 2023 17:08:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also, I'll try to add web versions of examples (WASM-based) to the website, because right now the examples there are... not good to say the least. This will take some time though, since I'm fixing bugs in parallel with this. I'm keep finding small issues here and there 😕

Joseph Dalrymple · Answer 6 · Mon Sep 18 2023 04:55:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@mrDIMAS Nice! That's good, though. Doesn't make for fast pace, but definitely adds to the stability of the engine, I imagine.

Riddhiman007 · Answer 7 · Fri Oct 20 2023 08:47:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@mrDIMAS I can update it for you.

Riddhiman007 · Answer 8 · Sun Oct 22 2023 12:54:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'll make one --template arg after somedays