Amethyst-Iced

An Amethyst addon to create your game UI using Iced.

Features

• Plug-and-play, just add a Render Plugin and a Bundle to your GameData, then get started using Iced
• Most (but not all) components of iced_native are usable
• Correctly handles resizing. Responsive Game UIs ftw !

Very much a WIP. If you want a full-featured solution, please consider contributing :)

Motivation

Writing UIs is both complex and important for video games. As Amethyst strives to be a powerful and feature-complete game engine, and Iced an easy-to-use and type-safe GUI library, I thought it would be a good idea to glue them together, and provide an alternative to Amethyst's built-in UI System.

Demo

Available examples:

• hello, demonstrating sample text in different colors
• counter, counting how many clicks on a button
• image, demonstrating Image widget with Amethyst's texture handling
• slider, demonstrating Iced's slider widget
• checkbox, demonstrating Iced's checkbox widget
• pane_grid, demonstrating Iced's pane grid widget
• progress_bar, demonstrating Iced's progress bar widget
• radio, demonstrating Iced's radio widget (they look like checkboxes right now, I know)

To run an example just launch cargo run --example hello --features vulkan. Other Amethyst backends may work but are untested.

Usage

See the examples. Sorry for the lack of comments.

Todo-list

• Improve the global code quality of the codebase and of the examples. This crate is poorly documented, and was written merely as a proof of concept.
• Review/Audit the IcedUI Rendy plugin as I am confident I have done a horrible job at "Rendy best practices".
• Review/Audit/Refactor hacky and inefficient custom font loading for Text widgets
• Make helpers to make custom font easier to use
• Support spritesheet for Image widget
• Support nine-patch for Image widget (more on that below)
• Fix radio buttons so they don't look like Checkboxes. Broadly speaking, design a way of using Lyon to render shapes, possibly getting inspiration from amethyst_lyon.
• Support Iced's debugger
• Support Images and Nine-Patches using custom styling for a variety of widgets where it would be applicable :
  • Buttons,
  • Checkboxes,
  • Sliders,
  • Radio,
  • Progress Bar
• Write an example for actual game integration
• Fix winit support which is in a poor state right now by using iced_winit once the Amethyst engine has done the transition to winit 0.20
• Support for Futures (possibly iced_futures) and implementation of the Application trait like in the Iced base crate
• Implement Scrollable widget
• Implement TextInput widget
• Implement amethyst profiling
• Port more examples from iced
• Setup CI
• Add badges to this repository. This is a serious project, after all.

Help would be appreciated ! :)