This project is a personal challenge to make something in ODIN. The challenge needed a further goal and that was something to make so I decided to make a conveyor system. To help with the creation of this conveyor system I decided to work with RayLib.
Any other features are just because I wanted to learn to use them at the same time while I was learning ODIN and decided to use this project as part of that learning. eg. MicroUI, memory tracking allocator, vscode launch/tasks configuration.
This project has been setup to hopefully "just work" when loaded into a vscode environment on a system that has odin installed. The configuration for the launch/tasks vscode configuration files were found in another repository and modified slightly to my own personal tastes.
- Open window
- Render rectangles
- Render sprite
- Animate sprite
- Placement of conveyors on a grid
- MicroUI
- Place item on conveyor
- Have item move with conveyor
- Have item move to linked conveyor
- Make sure items don't overlap other items already on conveyor
- Move code into separate files
- Cleanup code
I couldn't quite think of how I wanted to make feeders/eaters and support other possible actions that could happen on the conveyor so I created a direction called ACTION that would be like a nothing direction, meaning an item was coming from something and going to the to direction or coming from a from direction and going to something. I then allowed a conveyor section to define an action which could be a feeder/eater or anything else. This could also allow for an action that would change an object in some way and feed in and back out. Still looking how I can use this, or should I just make conveyor sections that are specific.
Another possibility is that a conveyor piece is defined as an entry point and an exit point (or multiple entry/exit points) with an action, and that action could just be do nothing. Then define an image for each of these conveyor sections. I would then need to define corner pieces possibly and define how things link.