I had to go to win32 hell and back to pull this off but it finally works!! my modeling tool now has a custom title bar! while still also supporting resizing, title bar dragging, and all those nice window features! this is nontrivial for some reason!! - ThreadSky

freya.bsky.social • 140 days ago

I had to go to win32 hell and back to pull this off but it finally works!!

my modeling tool now has a custom title bar! while still also supporting resizing, title bar dragging, and all those nice window features! this is nontrivial for some reason!!

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conocojoe3000.bsky.social•140 days ago

Wow!

ghostradiogames.bsky.social•140 days ago

win32? like hwnd hell?

freya.bsky.social•140 days ago

y e p

omnises.bsky.social•140 days ago

Yeah despite being called windows even basic window features we take for granted are a huge pain in the ass

lastarchimedes.bsky.social•140 days ago

I still have nightmares about WinAPI...

I love these icons that have a kind of hand-drawn style. Very cute.

bmbrice.bsky.social•139 days ago

Oooooh that's looking sick!

rinvars.bsky.social•140 days ago

Lovely work as usual.

sndr.bsky.social•140 days ago

lol

notexactlysiev.bsky.social•137 days ago

in CS class you are taught that the hardest problems in programming are about sorting algorithms or whatever. it is only much later that you realize it's about getting a native GUI program to do *anything*

gondera.ge•140 days ago

windows started making window management hell since we moved to 8.
that's why we dont see a lot of custom window themes that get creative like we used to in XP/Vista/7. happy to see youve put in the effort, though ^_^

jorisch.bsky.social•139 days ago

Pretty cool to see such a "standalone windows" application being made in Unity! Keep up the good work Freya :)

marisa.pw•140 days ago

:o neat

ogox.bsky.social•140 days ago

you spelled LOL with the transform tools on purpose, right? 😄

freya.bsky.social•140 days ago

uuuh I did not!

jorgeveiga.com•140 days ago

So cute!

reedbeta.bsky.social•139 days ago

Oh I would actually love to know how you made that happen if you don't mind elaborating or sharing the code...I tried to do this for a few tools of mine and was never able to make it work properly 😬

freya.bsky.social•136 days ago

yeah! I started writing a short blog post about it, so, soon!

freya.bsky.social•140 days ago

just set up a discord for half-edge now, in case you want to join early, chat about it, or just to get dev updates!

https://discord.com/invite/nBHhG4BvsJ

lumicosm.bsky.social•140 days ago

What kind of modelling tool is this going to end up being? Is there a specific niche or just general purpose?

freya.bsky.social•140 days ago

here are my notes on the philosophy of my modeling tool!

apart from now likely being standalone rather than a unity scene view thing, most of this still applies
https://publish.obsidian.md/acegikmo/Tools/Geo/Geo's+Philosophy

lumicosm.bsky.social•140 days ago

This looks awesome! Though I have another question: what kind of game devs are you targeting? Singular developers who need a straightforward modelling tool that isn’t horrifically complicated is my demographic. Furthermore, would you consider adding very basic rigging (no animation) capabilities?

freya.bsky.social•140 days ago

that's exactly my target demographic!

as for skinning/rigging, I'm probably not doing that for 1.0 to ensure I keep the scope reasonable, but it's definitely something I might do as a post release update!

lumicosm.bsky.social•140 days ago

Amazing! I will be keeping tabs 😄

drktbl.bsky.social•137 days ago

I don’t want to be scope-creep guy, but since Godot came to Meta Quest, people have been looking for a Quest-based modeling tool. Would it be possible to build a standalone halfedge apk for Android? Wouldn’t even need to be stereo 3d. 😬

freya.bsky.social•136 days ago

quest based? as in with VR controls and all? that's probably way too far off in terms of input paradigms to be viable this early! I also don't know how compatible it would be with all the compute shader stuff I'm using

drktbl.bsky.social•136 days ago

I meant running a 2D Android app (think phone/tablet) on Quest. No 3d input or stereo output. Compute shaders work on Quest, as long as the features you’re using are supported in Vulkan.

Just something to ponder when/if you’re bored.

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/resources/2dapps

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