Nim port

[zacharycarter]

Hi Joey!

Would you be open to a Nim port of this project? I'd like to also use BGFX as the rendering API rather than OpenGL.

If you're cool with the above - I'll probably get started this evening.

Thanks!

-Zach

[JoeyDeVries]

It's definitely interesting, but it would largely defeat the purpose of keeping everything bare-bones and simple (for understandability), so I don't think we can merge it properly into the main project without conflicting any of these interests. However, if you have a forked modified version built on Nim I'd love to reference it from this project's readme.

[zacharycarter]

I'd be totally fine with it living separately. There are two motivating reasons, behind my ask - 1) There are very few large, easy-to-understand, 3d rendering engines written in any language, and Cell is the best example I've found thus far. I think programmers who are interested in graphics programming, and the Nim programming language, would love a project that they can tear apart. 2) The BGFX community has been asking for an example of a higher level integration with BGFX, and I think a complete rendering engine, using the API, would be of great benefit to that community of graphics programmers. I do intend to try to keep things simple and readable, as you have done with Cell. Thanks for your input and I'll let you know how my progress goes!

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[JoeyDeVries]

Sounds great, and the motivations make a lot of sense. While originally intended to be easy-to-read, I did make quite a large number of modifications to the engine for portfolio-specific purposes (like the GI irradiance probes) that I normally wouldn't add to a project like this, so feel free to remove whatever feels unnecessarily bloated. I'll be going over the engine soon enough to process it to a version that better fits the original plan :)

Good luck, and definitely hit me up once it's at a close-to-finished state!

[zacharycarter]

Will do! Also, do you have any plans for creating an editor for Cell down the road? Maybe it'd be a project someone else could pick up? Just curious as to whether or not you already had one planned.

[JoeyDeVries]

Unfortunately, I'm mostly focusing on Vulkan work at the moment, so my next project will be a graphics engine/game built around Vulkan. This does mean I wont'be investing much more time into Cell aside from making stuff more readable/understandable.