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I call dibs on writing the DX7 renderer

How quickly could you create a fourth exactly ? Just asking.

Uhh, I guess probably between a week and a month? Depending on how good the code documentation and separation of concerns in the Godot engine are, how complex I choose to make the renderer, and how much I am able to focus (eg how much the external world and my health allow me to)

Fuck me that's a tall stretch. You want to write a renderer in a month or less ?

Realistically I was planning on doing this slowly over the next year working on and off a couple days at a time. And realistically it's likely a couple days in it will turn out to be Categorically Impossible due to some sort of limitation in Godot which is minor to Godot but major to my use case.

Nope. I’m still waiting for godot.

"We wait. We are bored. No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it." 😉

Haven't tried it myself yet, but people who do console ports have had to write their own versions for Sony/Nintendo libraries. I'd be curious to see how this goes for you.

Of the renderer? The implication here is that the renderer is an implicitly pluggable element

Why wouldn't it be? There's usually a clear enough separation that can be bridged with generic fuction calls at little to no penalty. And any engine that supports multiple graphics libraries already sort of has to keep that separation clean.

They've exposed some elements of the render pipleline, but replacements-as-plugins are still floating around the proposal space for Godot. You're kind of stuck completely forking and building it from scratch. github.com/godotengine/...

Imagine I am comfortable with forking Godot/the Godot editor. Assuming I am creating my custom renderer *within a Godot checkout*, does creating a fourth renderer as an alternative to Forward+/Mobile/Compatibility sound viable to you, or are there people who have tried this?

I guess if GDExtensions aren't an option, then the question is "is the codebase known to have an adequate separation of concerns that I can alter 'just the renderer part' instead of having to maintain editor-wide patches"?

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I want to do horrible things. With Rust

i’ve been having a nice time with bevy in rust, though it has no editor like godot, but getting your own render passes in seems easier

I believe there is an editor in the early stages of development that you can download and build from source… …but I’ve also heard some people have managed to setup and use Godot as a Bevy editor too. Never gave this a shot myself but apparently it’s possible.

The #1 rust person I can think of is @chevyray.dev but I don't know how much help that will be with the goal of adding a renderer to Godot

it's only possible to do horrible things with rust