• Building the engine
• Initialization
• Animations
• Nice texts

Building is successful on Linux and Windows. On both platforrms you need Rust toolchain and SDL2 library with extra SDL2_image and SDL2_ttf package. Simply run cargo build --release and Cargo will do everything for you.

The main config file is located at res/global/config.json. It contains following sections:

• init - Variables needed to create window and start the engine;
• optional - Variables that are not necessary for the engine, but can be used by it;
• custom - Global variables which can be accessed from anywhere in the engine.

{
	"init": {
		"title": "Ae3D",
		"style": "fullscreen",
		"size": { "w": 1920, "h": 1080 }
	},
	"optional": {
		"position": { "x": 860, "y": 540 }
	},
	"custom": {
	    "parameter": "value"
	}
}

• title - Initial name of the window, can be any string value;
• style - Style of the window:
  • default - Simple window, can't be resized;
  • resizable - Simple window, can be resized;
  • borderless - Window without decorations;
  • fullscreen - fullscreen window.
• size - Size of the window. Should contain width and height of the screen in pixels, i.e. { "w": 1920, "h": 1080}. It won't be used with the fullscreen style.

• position - Position of the window. Should contain X and Y coordinates, i.e { "x"; 860, "y": 540 }. If not provided, the window will appear in the center of the screen;
• hideCursor [true/false] - Show/hide cursor;
• lockCursor [true/false] - Lock/unlock the cursor in center of the window;
• vsync [true/false] - Enable/disable V-Sync.

Ae3D lets you to color your texts, but for that you need a palette. It can be defined in res/global/colors.json file as follows:

{
	"colorName": {
		"r": 255,
		"g": 255,
		"b": 255,
		"a": 255
	}
}

After that you can use these colors via their names.

Ae3D allows you to style your texts via markdown:

• ^() - Regular text;
• ^(*) - Bold text;
• ^(/) - Italic text;
• ^(_) - Underlined text;
• ^(-) - Strikethrough text.

Styles also can be combined, i.e. ^(* /) - Both bold and italic.

The text will contain the style that was written in front of it; In case you want to reset the style, you have to write ^() before the part that has to be regular:

This is ^(*)a bold text, and $(/)this is an italic text.

Are you ^(* _ /)Sure ^()that you want to quit programming? ^(*)Yes ^(/)No

When setting the style for text, you can also set the color for that text part: ^(clr=red). For more information about colors look here. The default text color is white.