Assets

Asset Management

Since Cargo only deals with code, a build.rs script was created to facilitate copying the assets source folder to it's destination directory relative to the built executable.

There also exists an asset module that exports a helper function assets_path() to obtain the assets directory at runtime, to make loading the assets easier.

Including resources

Some files are loaded directly into the application binary at compile time. This includes the imgui font and the shaders. Rust has a couple of helper macros that make this trivial, namely, include_bytes!() and include_str!(). This is something that seems incredibly simple, but cannot be done with just C++ without changing the original file to make it a raw string. 50 points to Rustlepuff! 🧙‍♂️