vkQuake + RmlUI - Quake engine with full RmlUI menus, HUD, and Lua scripting

[bradenleague]

Hey y'all! I wanted to share a project I've been working on. It's a https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake fork that replaces all of Quake's original menu and HUD rendering with RmlUI.

What's in it:

• All menus and the full HUD are RML/RCSS documents, no more C sprite rendering
• 50+ data bindings feeding live engine state (health, weapons, armor, powerups) into the DOM
• Two-way cvar binding for settings menus (sliders, toggles, dropdowns)
• Lua scripting support for interactive UI behavior
• Custom elements for procedural reticles (<reticle-dot>, <reticle-line>, <reticle-ring>, <reticle-arc>) with animatable RCSS properties
• UI renders to a separate texture, composited with post-process effects (barrel warp, chromatic aberration, HUD inertia)
• Full mod support, mods override menus, HUD, styles, fonts, and scripts via directory precedence

Still working on cleaning up the repo but take a look!

Git Repo
Teaser Trailer

[rminderhoud]

Thanks for sharing, always nice to see how others are using RmlUI and you've managed to get some interesting styling here!

[mikke89]

Wow, this is really awesome. Looks super neat! Thanks for sharing.

I'll happily add some screenshots to the gallery if you don't mind.

The barrel warp effect is pretty cool too.

[bradenleague]

oh ya I'd be honored! the barrel warp and other post processing is its own render pass, I'm pretty happy with it i also do a bit of inertia dampening so the screen glides a bit as you move .

Use which ever ones you want :)

[mikke89]

Very cool, thanks! I've added a screenshot to the Readme, and updated the thirdparty resources post :)

[bradenleague]

oh i think you linked the vkQuake repo instead of my fork https://github.com/bradenleague/vkQuake-RmlUi

[mikke89]

Oops, that went a bit too fast. Thanks for the heads up, I've corrected it now.

By the way, on your repo I notice that the screenshot is not working for me on top of your readme, just FYI :)