Hotreload example explanation

[nezvers]

Hi, As a just-born Rustacian coming from weekend C, I conveniently landed on this project by trying to track the engine of Rebel Transmute. This is the first project I encountered examples of rust libraries and learned how to use them. Then I went through them but for the Hotreload, I have no clue how actually utilize it. It would be great if it had some comments or language tooltip documentation on how it is used.

P.S. I love what I'm seeing with this project and I think I'll be able to help a bit after I catch up with the Rust language.

[Bombfuse]

Hey Nezvers!

I really appreciate that you're enjoying the engine and we love to see more contributors!

As for Rebel Transmute, I think that may be made in Unity, can probably find out more in their discord.

Unfortunately I haven't had a ton of free time to document then engine :/ I do my best to document features through examples, adding a new example that demonstrates how to use a feature whenever one is added. I will do my best to write a thorough book on the engine in the future though!

As for the hot reload feature specifically, I think it only works on PNG files right now. So if you edit any png file being used by a sprite then it should update in real time as long as the hotreload function is called.

[nezvers]

Oh, I was hoping for code or configuration hotreloading, since that's the most needed for game development iterations. TanTan showed his hotreload approach for that. I'm willing to work on examples.

[Bombfuse]

Oh yah I'm not quite sure how to get code horeloading setup, configuration hotreloading we could probably do. I think it's possible to add an api for users to add their own file types to watch & hotreload.

I'd definitely be down to see some examples, code hotreloading sounds like it would be super good to have