Evoke 2016

[hadronized]

This issue is used to gather feedback about what was great and what was less great while writing my evoke 2016 PC demo.

What was great

• textures are easy to load using the image crate ; however, we need to add a system (mpsc?) to implement some kind of progress bar.
• the time panel, very handy to skip / jump / synchronize.

What was not great

• I missed the logical synchronization code ; that is, being able to run some code for a given period of time and then switch to something else (maybe something FRP-ish?) (Logical synchronization #4).
• resource hot reloading was missing (Resource hot reloading #3).
• the time panel doesn’t show the current time, plus I needed fine grain control over the time (like being able to reduce the window time to move milliseconds by milliseconds) (Time granularity change #7).
• I often wanted to switch from runtime camera to freefly camera (Switch between freefly and tracked cameras #5).
• cannot write a progress bar code with the current ion codebase.
• a proper editor for the curves and animation (Keyframe editor #6).
• keyframes editing: that was awful. I had to launch the demo in debug (i.e. with freefly camera support), set the camera’s transform, output it to stdout (via a keyboard shortcut), quit the demo, copy-paste the transform at the wished time, re-compile without the debug camera, and see whether it’s working and synced.
• unused uniform semantics for debug purposes (Unused uniform semantics luminance-rs#14, ProgramWarning for uniforms luminance-rs#15).