Hoffstadt Notes & TODOs

TODO

These take the place of formal issues since its mostly just me right now.

General

• cull issue
• staging ext grow
• GCC 15 issue
• animation improvements
• video decoding
• fake cursor drawing
• reduce allocations
• general purpose block allocator
• general purpose buddy allocator
• memory tracking tool should group allocations
• embedded helper (no dll extensions)
• test packaging
• fix when glViewportIndex not available
• aligned alloc
• platform detection & specs
• pak directory help

Draw

• expose raw draw buffer
• fix rounded image rect
• gradients

Physics

• cap physics velocity

Graphics & Rendering

• global illumination R & D
• ambient occlusion R & D
• light culling
• create a more defined post processing system
• texture streaming
• revisit HDR handling
• flush
• directional light shadow offset cleanup
• hovered/outline cleanup
• add back removing objects
• split drawables into specialized versions (i.e. indexed, shaders, etc.)
• combine buffers (utilizing freelist ext)

New Extensions

• A* path finding
• path tracing
• high-rez timer to platform ext

New Libraries

• string intern
• drawing
• physics
• stats
• collision
• BVH
• pak file
• datatime
• vfs
• sorting
• job
• dds

New Tools

• installer tool
• shader compiler & packer
• split file tool
• pak file tool
• file explorer

Testing

• check skinning with instancing
• automate UI testing
• virtual memory
• config

Build System

• specify build target from command line
• additional compilers
• add tests
• clean option
• print insertion
• relative/absolute situation
• documentation
• remove duplicates
• temp directory cleanup

ECS Finalization

• remove all of component
• retrieve all entities of type combo
• remove component
• create many

Examples

• network
• vfs

App Ideas

Various app ideas.

Simple Demos

• fonts
• shadows
• collision
• path finding
• outlines
• mixamo test bed
• culling