Now we have some framework in place in my engine, it’s time to look at 2D, once in place, we can look at UI. This image uses same 2 cameras in the 3D scene, but with basic 2D elements.
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A bit of progress this lunch with the 2D elements of my engine written with MonoGame.
Left camera attached to the sprite, right camera is static. Ship and it’s text is rendered with the cameras screen space matrix, the info text is rendered with the cameras overlay matrix.
Alas, you will need to see the gif on my twitter feed to see it in action.
Sprite animation and render is well under way now, lost to tidy up yet for the MonoGame engine Patreon post, but getting there. Created a key frame system similar to the skinned mesh animator. Might add to the extended content pipeline to import sprite sheet animations. You could have multiple animation clips for multiple sprites too.
Have a look at the twitter post I did with a gif showing the animation.
Just opened up a Patreon tutorial post on a refraction shadre to the public, if you like it and find it useful, then feel free to become a patron to get more of this sort of thing 
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Now working on the next engine post regarding the basics of SpriteBatch rendering.
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Finally got around to posting the 7th post on my Engine written with MonoGame, this post covers the 2D basics I have created, 4 ways to render our sprites as well as sprite sheet keyframe animation.
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Started to work on a bit of Audio in the MonoGame engine I am writing. Sourcing audio from here, thanks to this awesome post by @EricMatyas.
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Another Patreon post regarding the engien I am writing in MonoGame, this post coveres the audio manager.
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OK, I have had a bit of a shit month, wont go into it all, but November has been filled with me job hunting. Thankfully I start my new role on Monday, so I have been able to get back into some hobby development.
Today, I have started to bring in all the components I have written so far and unified them under a GameBase class, I have also started work on the Coroutine framework, this means I will be able to run co routines just like Unity does So, far it works well.
In this code snipet I am running a coroutine to change the color of a texture rendered to the screen, the color flips between white and red every 1 second.
As ever I can’t upload a gif, so have a look at it runnign on my twitter feed here.
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A productive evening. My MonoGame engine now supports Cooutines, similar to Unity, it also can now use Roslyn to compile C# scripts, add them to components, and have those scripts run coroutines too
Hope to have a Patreon post on it at the weekend
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C# Scripting & Coroutines
This post covers the Roslyn compiler I have added to the engine as well as the coroutne framework.
Void Engine - Tutorial 9
https://www.patreon.com/posts/44854439
Double post weekend!
Another quick post and video covering the engines BaseGame class, how it brings the current components I have written together, Asset, Input, Audio, C# Scripting, and Coroutines. Next Ill be looking at Scene management, and then once we have that, we will start writing the scene editor https://www.patreon.com/posts/44963508
I think this will do for tonight, scene is serialized, saved, then re loaded at a later date.
Getting there Three cameras in this scene, each running a runtime compiled C# script, one for me to translate and rotate the top camera, the other two follow the top camera.
Bit of holiday engine code, my current Patreon post has me thinking about render pipelines, but I think I will get the scene management done and covered frist, then do render pipelines, then, work on the scene editor
My god, I actually got around to making my first Patreon post of 2021… I have had a hectc few months… back on it now though 
This post covers the scene managemtn code I added to my engine back before Xmas.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/47237761
Think I might add a few more bells and whistles before I move onto the creation of the scene editor
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UI!
For the editor, but baking it into the engine too so it can be used in game if you want to, trying to make it easy to style too
Having to re qork what I wrote the other week, had an idea, it didn’t pan out, but this is looking better now https://patreon.com/NemoKrad
Nice. I did my ui using viewpoirts for containers. And you can nest containers inside containers. Each container also uses a backing camera for scrolling etc.
It was a bit tricky to get flawless but basically I needed to translate the draw and the input for each container.
Getting the draw and update order was interesting too
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Cool, I am nesting controls in controls here, in the window, the title bar is a control, as is the button. Each has its own scissor rectangle so they can’t over flow,
They can be camera specific too, and it should be possible to render them as billboards and use them in world space oo, but not tested that yet.
I thought I would do a bit of a round up post on where I am with my MonoGame Engine. Doing this post made me realize, there is quite a bit in here
Next post is up, now starting to look at creating an editor for my game engine, exciting eh!
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Thoguht I would show you the sort of thing I am aiming for with my engine and it’s editor, this is an old vid of a game I started writing with my old engine and editor, one of my fav old arcade games Gyrus.