DodgeGDS (gdext evaluation project)

This is part of a project to evaluate the godot-rust bindings gdext.

It is derived from the game featured in the "Your first 2D game" tutorial in the godot documentation.

Language: GDScript

Renderer: Vulkan Mobile

The evaluation project consists of four Repositories:

• overview repository (contains raw data, results and a description of the evaluation process)
• this
• Rust Version
• process-logger
• python-pandas-plotter

Setup

• Installing Support for the Vulkan Renderer might be required.

If the prebuild executables should not work for you, you can build the project from source with the following steps:

1. Download Godot 4.2
2. Clone this repository by opening a shell and entering:
   • git clone git@github.com:franziskusz/dodge-gds.git (requires having a ssh key setup)
   • or git clone https://github.com/franziskusz/dodge-gds.git
3. Change to the just cloned repository directory with cd dodge-gds (Unix)
4. Open the dodge-the-creeps/godot/project.godot file by double clicking it.
5. With entering command b or clicking the triangle on the top right you can run the project within the editor in debug mode
6. In the menu select Project -> Export... to export
7. Select Add.. at the top/center to add a Preset for your Operating System (This might require an additional autmatic download)
8. Select Export Project at the bottom and chose a name and target directory, deselect Export With Debug and click on Save

Notes

• I am new to Godot and Rust. This whole project is also a learning experience for me. If the way some things are implemented gives you headaches, I apologize. I am open for any kind of criticism.
• The additional calculation workload is based on godot-rust-benchmark
• This applications writes performance logs to timestamped .csv files within the /app_userdata/DodgeGDS/stats directory. See godot file paths for details. This directory will never get cleared automatically!

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