ECS library

I've read some articles about ECS and tried writing an ECS system myself. But I found that it involves too much (reflection, trait object type conversions, multithreading, and so on), and my Rust skills aren't enough to finish it yet. While looking for reference material, I found this library: hecs, a lightweight ECS library that provides a basic, efficient ECS architecture.

So I decided to use this library first and learn as I go. Also, reading the project's readme gave me a good impression of its author. They thoughtfully explain what ECS isn't suited for and recommend other ECS libraries. That's very helpful for a beginner like me.

terre-core

Lately, I've been struggling with how to update and render models, and I need more flexibility in how I write rendering pipelines. Meanwhile, my project structure keeps getting messier the more I try to organize it. So I started looking at other people's projects. I read through bevy_render, which gave me some ideas, but it's a large project and not very easy to read. Then I remembered a Rust game engine, baryon, that a previous blog post had referenced:

GitHub - kvark/baryon: Fast prototyping 3D engine

Baryon

Looking at how baryon implements a game engine was very helpful. Following baryon's example, I decided to split the game core into a terre-core subproject.

Resources introducing Bevy Rendering

Bevy's rendering code is another important reference. I've collected the resources here.

• Bevy Rendering: https://taintedcoders.com/bevy/rendering/

• Bevy Render (GPU) Framework: https://bevy-cheatbook.github.io/gpu.html