Voile/TODO.md

Voile MVP

Core

• Add and implement interfaces for systems (ISystem, IUpdatableSystem, etc.)
• Minimize amount of possible null references.
• TextDataResource providing a convenient wrapper around TOML data files.
• Add documentation for common classes.
• Hot reloading of resources.

I/O

• Use GUIDs and string ID maps for fetching resources instead of string IDs alone.
• Reimplement unloading.
• Finalize ResourceManager and ResourceLoader APIs for 1.0.
• Add async API for ResourceManager.
• Virtual file system.
• (stretch goal) Streamed resource loading.

Serialization

• Serialize attribute.
• Add automatic serialization of resources through code generation and System.Text.Json.
• Provide means for fetching key/value configuration (INI? TOML?)
  • Expose some sort of ConfigFile class for safe key/value configuration fetching.

Rendering

• API for drawing textured quads
• Camera API
• Arbitrary mesh rendering API.
• Create WebGPU renderer (StandardRenderer)

Audio

• Integrate FMOD
• 2D audio abstraction

Misc

• Asset manager
• Separate engine and game into separate projects
• Particle system 2.0
  • Reduce the size of Particle struct by infering most parameters through lifetime.
  • Reduce cache misses by utilizing SoA.
  • SIMD acceleration.
  • Dynamically resize particle arrays as emitters get added or removed.

SceneGraph module

• Full overhaul using Entity Component architecture (not to be mistaken with ECS).
• Layers (sorting mechanism)
• Save/load scenes from file

Input

• Action system
• Make action system use an InputMap resource instead.
• Gamepad support

UI

• Immediate mode API.
• Styling.
• Basic input elements (button, text field, toggle).
• Containers (vertical and horizontal).