Clojurians Log v2
clojure-gamedev
Hey folks I did some experiments to evaluate the ergonomics and efficiency of a workflow that utilizes Blender for scene design and ClojureScript for a gamedev. I did the same study with https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cljs-threejs-rapier and https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cljs-babylon-havok/. Clearly the code is super different because Babylon has havok integrated in it's core, so you have to write way less boilerplate compared with the threejs version. I hope this helps someone, that as me, is evaluating the developer experience of coding clojure and editing the scene in a external editor and being able to setup the physics. Please be aware the code is super ugly the bare minimum to make the scene works in the both stacks.
This is so cool, thanks for sharing your work!
No I used as inspiration for some decisions on how integrate rapier and three, but I'm not sure if I like declaring scenes with a component like structure, but this on me. Maybe rt-fiber + helix or ulx can be a great deal.
I think it would be good for certain types of games. For example if you're procedurally generating a lot of a scene with cljs code it would be great. For integrating with an editor like Blender it's maybe less useful.
makes sense 🙂
if you end up doing a poc with it I would love to see
Good job! I highly suggest JS interop: https://github.com/applied-science/js-interop
Thanks! I did an "extension" adding navmesh to the threejs stack mix and a variation with squint instead of cljs, if you are interested: https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/cljs-threejs-rapier-recast https://github.com/rafaeldelboni/squint-threejs-rapier-recast
Have you investigated react-three-fiber at all? It would be cool to have a fully declarative way of expressing 3d scenes in cljs. I should probably test this out.