Features

This list is intended to be a rough reference of the features we provide in the Piston libraries:

• Game loop, implemented as iterator, which makes it possible to use one function per scene/mini game/dialogue
• Back-end agnostic, extensible, generic event programming (can be implemented on top of other libraries)
• AI behavior trees that transforms a declarative parallel processing event logic into a state machine (sounds scary, but simple to use)
• Back-end agnostic, fast 2D graphics triangulation for simple shapes
• Integration with OpenGL/Gfx/SDL2/GLFW/Glutin/Glium
• Immediate mode UI (Conrod), getting new features every week
• Image formats and processing PNG/JPEG/GIF and other formats
• Sprite scenes and animations
• Digital sound processing (developed under RustAudio organization)
• Font rendering with FreeType
• Vector math library with both row and column major matrices
• Quaternion math library
• Dual quaternion math library
• Shader version library for OpenGL
• Deform images in realtime
• Pre-process triangulation in graphics tree (2D)
• Visual Studio plugin for Rust
• 3D camera and view/model/perspective setup
• First person camera controller
• Wavefront OBJ loader for 3D geometry
• Collada 3D format
• Skeleton animation blending
• Mouse/keyboard data structure (to be used in other libraries)
• FPS counter
• Texture packer
• Meta parsing (a language for parsing text documents, can be used in data driven and language design)
• Dyon scripting (a rusty dynamically typed language that needs no garbage collector)
• Mix economy (an algorithm that regulates inequality measured by Gini coefficient for virtual economies)