This module is part of a larger JRPG Game Engine project. It is designed to optimize your game's performance by enabling you to package your game assets into a contiguous block of memory, which can then be loaded into the engine. This process reduces the amount of memory fragmentation, speeding up the game's runtime. 🚀
The assets that can be packaged include images, audio files, fonts, shaders, models, scripts, and other custom types. Each asset is represented by an Asset struct, which includes its name, type, location within the chunk, size in bytes, and the actual data as a vector of bytes. 🏞🎵🖼🔤
It a super work in progress right now, I just started this. I don't expect anybody to actually use this its really just a fun project for me work on and get better at memory management and Rusts FFI to C capabilities.
The Asset struct provides several methods for manipulation:
set_chunk_location(&mut self, location:usize): Sets the location of the asset in the chunk.get_chunk_location(&self) -> usize: Gets the location of the asset in the chunk.get_size(&self) -> usize: Gets the size of the asset in bytes.get_data(&self) -> &Option<Vec<u8>>: Gets the data of the asset as a byte vector.get_name(&self) -> &str: Gets the name of the asset.get_type(&self) -> &AssetType: Gets the type of the asset.
The AssetManifest struct represents a collection of assets. It provides methods for creating a new asset manifest, retrieving assets, modifying assets, serializing the manifest to a JSON string, loading a manifest from a JSON string, and writing the manifest to a file.
The RawCAsset, RawCAssetManifest, and RawCAssetChunk structs represent the C-compatible API to interact with the assets and their manifests.
This project is a work in progress, and contributions are welcome. Please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
- Thanks to the Rust community for their valuable resources and support.