Symmetry/todo.txt

Todo:
	- Specific rendering mode for editor related rendering	
	- Basic Editor gizmo for transformation i.e. translate/rotate/scale in world and local coordinates
	- Add warning to genie build script when running on windows and WindowsSdkVersion cannot be found. This happens when the script is not run from vcvarsall command prompt
	- Improve README and add a screenshot to make the repository ready for making it public 
	- Refactor all global application state into 'Application_Context' struct. A single global instance of which is available everywhere
	? Improve bounding sphere calculation
	- Change the way lights are set as uniforms to remove snprintf calls per frame for every light attribute
	- Screen mouse coordinates to world-coordinates for aiming
	- Player projectiles and sounds
	- Console commands
	- Console command history
	- Console command help
	- Space partitioning and scene handling
	- Move Gui_State and Editor_State into game_state and modify usage as needed
	- Get editor camera speed and other settings from config file
	- Recompile Soloud on windows to use static sdl2 backend
	- Figure out a way to reduce of remove snprintf calls from render code
	- Re-Implement saving/loading scene to/from files
	- Implement storing console's scroll location and restore it when console is toggled
	- Implement collision/physics data serialization, read and write.
	- Physics forces/torque etc
	- Implement physics debug visualizations for other primitives and tri mesh shapes
	- Serializing/Deserializing physics data
	- Proper implementation of Scene struct with per-scene settings and configurations that can be loaded/saved to file instead of just dumping entities into a file
	- Necessary basic editor additions like placing objects, scaling, rotating etc
	- Add fallback shader
	- Implement Game States
	- Store Materials in new format supported by parser
	- Add model description file which has the same syntax supported by parser and modify old blender exporter to conform to new standards
	- Fix bugs with sound sources not updating
	- Add creating distributable build and uploading to itch.io account support to GENie under windows and linux.
	- Remove hardcoded numerical values from sscanf and other format strings.
	? Recalculated bounding boxes for rotated meshes
	? Wrap malloc and free calls in custom functions to track usage
	? File extension checking for asset loading
	? Only allocate hashmap bucket when required
	- Mapping actions to keybindings, for example map action "Jump" to Space key etc
	? Add marking or queuing up custom meshes for debug render with particular transform and color for rendering bounding spheres for example
	? Interleaved vbos for meshes and changes to blender exporter accordingly
	- Enumerate and save all the uniform and attribute positions in shader when it is added and cache them in shader object?
	? Better handling incase assets folder is not found
	- Write entity to/from file
	- Ogg format loading and playback
	- Sound streaming
	- Implment missing sound source properties (inner/outer cone, getting sound source data)
	- Shadow maps
	- Print processor stats and machine capabilites RAM etc on every run to log.
	- Do input maps really need to be queried by their string names?
	- Write default config/keybindings etc to file if none are found in preferences dir
	- Multisampled textures and framebuffers
	- Validate necessary assets at game launch
	- Gamma correctness
	- Log and debug/stats output in gui
	- Textual/Binary format for data serialization and persistance
	- Array based string type comptible with cstring(char*)
	- Reduce fps on window focus loss or minimization
	- ???
	- Profit!

Improvements:
	- Better naming semantics for examples, init/deinit for initialization and cleanup and create/destroy when memory is allocated or deallocated
	- Reset mouse cursor position to the center of the screen in editor mode after the right click is released
	- Categorized entity list in editor for example different subtree for lights and static meshes

Bugs:
	- Better handling of wav format checking at load time
	- Fix light rotation/direction bugs
	- Fix lights type not being correctly saved/loaded from file
	- Fix culling
	- Fix bounding boxes not aligning in editor

Done:
	* Input
	* Shaders
	* Geometry
	* change struct usage
	* change Array implementation
	* resolve vec-types sizes
	* Transform
	* Deltatime
	* Investigate about Exit() and at_exit() functions and whether to use them or not.
	* Fix readme markdown
	* Framebuffer and resolution independent rendering
	* A simpler build system without dependencies
	* Remove dependencies
	* Remove Kazmath dependency
	* Entity
	* Find a permanent solution for build system
	* Textures
	* Camera
	* Test render
	* Fix input lag and other framerate related issues
	* Materials
	* Mesh/Model
	* Add modifiers to input maps to enable combinations for example, c-x, m-k etc
	* Heirarchical Transforms
	* Materials with textures
	* Lights!
	* Fix problems with texture units
	* Fix problems with frustrum culling
	* Gui
	* Fix mouse bugs on windows
	* Configuration/Settings load/save handling
	* Fix mousewheel bugs and gui not responding to mousewheel input
	* Setup cross compilation with mingw or stick to msvc?
	* Toggleable debug drawing for meshes
	* Font selection
	* Font atlas proper cleanup
	* In second refactor pass, use entities everywhere, no need to pass in transform and model 	separately for example since they're both part of the same entity anyway
	* Show SDL dialogbox if we cannot launch at all?
	* Writing back to config file
	* Reading from config file
	* Variant -> String conversion procedure. Use in editor for debug var slots
	* Add strings and booleans to variant types
	* Fix Key release not being reported
	* OpenAL not working in releasebuilds
	* 3d sound using OpenAL
	* Fix frustum culling bugs
	* Array-based Hashmaps
	* Fix bugs with heirarchical transformations
	* Remove reduntant "settings" structures and move all configuration stuff to config variables
	* Log output to file on every run
	* Add option to specify where to read/write files from instead of being hard-coded assets dir
	* Fix input map bugs
	* Live data views in editor
	* Camera resize on window reisze
	* Resizable framebuffers and textures
	* Support for multiple color attachments in framebuffers?
	* Better way to store and manage textures attached to framebuffers
	* Variant type
	* Editor
	* Fix frustum culling sometimes not working
	* Compile and test on windows
	* Fix mouse bugs
	* Fix issues with opengl context showing 2.1 only
	* Improve this readme
	* Replace orgfile with simple text readme and reduce duplication
	* Fix camera acting all weird when right click is held
	* Fix README to conform with markdown syntax
	* Added video driver selection to make game launch under wayland or x11 on linux.
	* Separate game code into a dynamical library that can be reloaded at runtime.
	* Move game, common and game library related code into separate folders.
	* Fixed game crashing on exit after game library has been reloaded more than once.
	* Made game compile and run under windows with visual studio 2017 using GENie
	* Implemented file copy and file delete on windows and linux.
	* Implemented a work-around for dll locking on windows by creating a copy of the game lib at launch and when reloading,
	  unloading the current dll, deleting it and creating new copy of the updated dll and loading that
	* Added file copy and delete to platform api
	* Made dll reloading workaround compatilble on linux
	* Default keybindings as fallback
	* Implemented writing scene to file
	* Fixed space not being added after light entities are written to file by adding missing new-line
	* Fixed error caused by the way eof was checked in scene file 	
	* Camera fbo params are now written to file when entity is saved
	* Fixed several bugs with entity loading
	* Removed duplicate parsing logic
	* Fixed bugs in stripping key name for input map
	* Modify entity loading logic to use the new parsing code by parsing all entity properties into a hashmap first then recreating entity from that
	* Implmented writing to file through the new Parser and Parser_Objects
	* Changed Config to read/write using new Parser and Parser_Objects
	* Implemented Reading/Writing keybindings using new parser object
	* Replaced OpenAL with Soloud with SDL2 backend
	* Implemented sound/listener loading from scene file
	* Finished loading scene from file
	* Initial implementation of immediate-mode batched sprite render
	* Fixed bugs with shader include file pre-processor
	* Fixed bugs with editor's camera property viewer
	* Fixed bugs related to changing camera projection
	* Fixed bugs with sprite batch renderer not working with projection matrix
	* Fixed broken orthographic camera
	* Implement necessary changes to run Soloud on linux
	* Moved third party libs/include directories into root/lib and root/include. Put common includes like header-only libs into root/include/common and others which require platform specific stuff into root/include/linux etc.
	* Got rid of pkg-confg and system-installed SDL2 dependancy on linux and instead put custom compiled SDL libs in libs folder similar to how we're handling it in windows
	* Proper physics time-step and speed
	* Proper handling of rigidbody associated with an entity and notifying it of movement or collision
	* Added physics spheres and other primitive shapes
	* Separated collision shape and rigidbody
	* Implemented Getting/Modifying primitive physics shapes' values like length, radius etc
	* Update physics if entity position/rotation/scale etc are changed
	* Implemented Physics raycasting
	* Implemented immediate mode renderer that can draw arbitrary points, lines and triangles
	* Converted IM_Vertex array to only be used as temporary storage for vertices between begin and end calls
	* Implemented Debug physics mesh drawing for box and sphere primitives
	* Completed Phase 1 of codebase refactoring
	* Improved editor camera handling
	* Re-implemented showing all the entities in the editor
	* Player init, update, visual representation and movement
	* Switching between editor and game mode/cameras
	* In-game basis for scrollable console/log-viewer
	* Console log output
	* Console error/warning output
	* Implemented Auto scrolling to the bottom in console
	* Implemented screen coordinate to ray conversion and ray-sphere collision
	* Split todo and readme into two files
	* Replace all renderer_check_gl calls with GL_CHECK macro
	* Fixed Console bug when enabled in editor mode
	* Migrated from bitbucket to github and from mercurial back to git
	* Removed the game executable and game library split.
	* Event Subsystem
	* Fixed mouse button press/release behaviour by using event callbacks for editor mouse picking
	* Ray picking for editor
	* Highlight entity selected in editor in a specific color
	* Deselect selected entity in editor when nothing is hit on click and an entity is already selected