Hlp - collection of useful libraries for game development

[egorcod]

Hello!

I created a collection of some useful libraries. They are:

1. Finder
This library can find game servers in local network through UDP broadcast.

Example:

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local finder = require('finder')

love.window.close()

print('1 - server, other - client')

if tonumber(io.read(1)) == 1 then
  print('server')

  local srv = finder.Server({
    port = 8080,
    handshake = '93203'
  })

  srv:on('connect', function(address)
    return print(address .. " connected to server!")
  end)

  srv:on('disconnect', function(address)
    return print(address .. " disconnected from server!")
  end)

  love.update = function(dt)
    return srv:update()
  end

else

  print('client')

  local cl = finder.Client({
    port = 8080,
    handshake = '93203'
  })

  cl:on('connect', function(address)
    return print("Found server " .. address .. "!")
  end)

  cl:on('disconnect', function(address)
    return print(address .. " disconnected!")
  end)

  love.update = function(dt)
    return cl:update()
  end
end

2. Locale
Localization library. The killer feature: it can get system locale!

Example:

main.lua:

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local locale = require('locale')

local lc = locale.new('en', 'ru')

-- get system locale, wow!
lc.current = locale.get()

-- more locales can be loaded later
-- lc:load('*')

-- export data from locale
local data = lc.values

local time = 0

local font = love.graphics.newFont('font.ttf', 50)


love.update = function(dt)
  -- switch locales every second
  time = time + dt
  if time >= 1 then
    time = 0
    if lc.current == 'en' then
      lc.current = 'ru'
    else
      lc.current = 'en'
    end
  end
end

love.draw = function()
  love.graphics.setFont(font)
  return love.graphics.print(data.hello, 100, 100)
end

en.lua:

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return {
  language = 'en',
  values = {
    hello = 'Hello!'
  }
}

ru.lua:

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return {
  language = 'ru',
  values = {
    hello = 'Привет!'
  }
}

3. Asset
Async asset loader.

Example:

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local asset = require('asset')
local assets = {}


love.update = function()
	assets = {
		font = asset.font('font.ttf', 26),
		shader = asset('shader.glsl'),
		image = asset('image.jpg')
	}
end

love.draw = function()
	if assets.font then
		love.graphics.setFont(assets.font)
		love.graphics.print('SUPPORTS FONTS, SHADERS, IMAGES, AUDIOS AND VIDEOS')
	end

	if assets.shader then
		love.graphics.setShader(assets.shader)
	end

	if assets.image then
		love.graphics.draw(assets.image, 0, 55, nil, 0.14, 0.14)
	end

	if assets.shader then
		love.graphics.setShader()
	end
end

Thanks for reading! You can download library at GitHub repo: https://github.com/malyutinegor/hlp

[yintercept]

This is a really useful asset. Gonna save some time for sure.

egorcod thanks for this library, I appreciate what you've done here.

[egorcod]

Thanks

[unek]

https://github.com/malyutinegor/hlp/blo ... le.lua#L71
I think what you want is 'AppleLocale' not AppleLocal

[yintercept]

I was literally going to implement an async asset loader this week until I saw this post for the second time lol.