Hello world! I have remade my personal website to better present my different projects. The documentation about Rawr is also gone since I have now made a dedicated website: rawr-lang.org. It even has a ton of great new Croute drawings from my sister!
I also added a blog section where I am planning to regularly show the progress of Rawr, Bouillotte and Manul. It can be hard to have something interesting to show for a programming language still in development since sometimes I just spend my week tracking and fixing boring bugs about memory alignment or the C ABI. However Bouillotte and Manul are much more graphic and interesting to show.
I am currently remaking my GUI library. It used to be a very simplistic IMGUI with limited layouts but I now uses the frame of latency trick like Dear ImGui so I should be able to do more complex interfaces. I also added basic animations when the mouse cursor hovers a button using a simple lerp between two colors. The developer behind the RAD Game Tools’s debugger has a great series about IMGUI on his website. The first three parts are free and it is an easy recommend. The new GUI library will be used for Bouillotte’s editor but also for Manul and eventually for the Rawr editor.
Next time I am planning to overhaul the way I am drawing text in the GUI. I currently draw the font from an atlas generated by Codehead’s Bitmap Font Generator but it doesn’t look great and I cannot change the size and the font at runtime. I intended to draw the text using Signed Distance Field but it seems the text would looks crisper using more traditional rasterization technique like Freetype because of font hinting. I have used stb_truetype.h in the past for my previous game engines but I never wrote something like that from scratch before so it should be interesting/painful…