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584 :: Urho3D wrapper

• sheosi (orginal) [2014-10-12T13:50:57+02:00] view original

  Hi there! I'm writing this post to announce my wrapper for Urho3D which is a open source 3D game engine, Urho3D has good API and is overall pretty good (and unlike Ogre/Irrlicht/Horde3D it's a complete game engine with editor and scripting). If you want to know more about it here's the webpage: http://urho3d.github.io.

  Now my wrapper you can find it on: https://github.com/sheosi/urhonim.

  I made this wrapper beacause I felt Urho3D it's pretty much the best open source game engine and because I felt that Nimrod fits so nice the game space that not having any 3D engine left as if it was lacking something.

  Now the real part, I'm not an expert on wrappers (indeed, this is my first one) and I would like ask you Nimrod-savvy guys (and everyone wanting to lend a hand :) ) to help make the wrapper, and answer my questions (thought you already did with pretty much everything else i asked).

  With all those silly things said, I would like to thank you all.

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-10-13T14:10:25+02:00] view original

  Excellent, I will look at your wrapper to give feedback within a couple of days.

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• sheosi (orginal) [2014-10-13T14:30:22+02:00] view original

  So much thanks Araq, by the way I'm using clibpp.

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• Orion (orginal) [2014-10-13T18:52:04+02:00] view original

  I will be following this with great interest, thank you for sharing!

  I'd never heard of Urho3D before, but it looks quite cool

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• gokr (orginal) [2014-10-14T11:39:20+02:00] view original

  I agree, Urho3D is probably the best open source game engine right now. Extremely high code quality.

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-10-18T12:32:00+02:00] view original

  Well I only skimmed it but since it doesn't even compile yet it's hard to say much. ;-)

  • The new convention is to start with a lowercase letter for routines: proc open instead of proc Open.
  • Trailing underscores are unnecessary.
  • You can also try c2nim's C++ support to ease the translation process of method headers etc.

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• sheosi (orginal) [2014-10-21T12:57:30+02:00] view original

  Well, there's still some things that I don't know how to do them (that's why it won't compile).

  • I'm putting them in Uppercase just because that's how it's done in Urho3D, and since I'm using clibpp I think I'll have to write it that way, also everyone, thanks to Nimrod/Nim's compiler, might call those using good convention.
  • That's also due to how it's done in Urho3D.
  • Thanks, I might try if you need feedback on c2nim, but I've written my own tool (a plugin for sublime text 3) which does the heavy lifting for me, I'll publish the source code once it gets the capabilities for detecting (and writing) multiple constructors. If anyone's curious, this tool uses copy/pastes from doxygen.

  However, if any day I decide to drop clibpp I'll use proper convention, I promise :) .

  BTW, there's anyway I can have both names? (e.g: context and context ) , I think templates might work, but I don't know whether there's any obstacle for this to work.

  Finally,I would be glad if you could pass by the other post to help me with the three things remaining that I don't know how to do them.

  EDIT: I have published my sublime text plugin.

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