This Week in Quads #12
🔗miniquad: Anti aliased render targets
A change heavily inspired by sokol: a way to make render pass that automatically resolves multisampled render textures.
It is a breaking change, new_render_pass_mrt got an extra argument now. However, it should not affect most people - new_render_pass_mrt got introduced a few weeks back, and, hopefully, most people still use new_render_pass.
for macroquad, this change allowed to implement a render_target_msaa function. It works just like a normal render_target, and render_target.texture is a normal macroquad's texture.
// Setup 'render_target', used to hold the rendering result so we can resize it
-let render_target = render_target(VIRTUAL_WIDTH as u32, VIRTUAL_HEIGHT as u32);
+let render_target = render_target_msaa(VIRTUAL_WIDTH as u32, VIRTUAL_HEIGHT as u32, 4);
🔗road to 3d macroquad
The biggest promise of macroquad-0.5 is the same drawing API for macroquad-0.4 style static batching and for standalone 3d meshes. And it is about to actually happened!
// direct equivalent of
// `draw_text("HELLO WORLD", 30, 300.0, 300.0, BLACK)`
// from macroquad 0.4
canvas1.draw(Text::new("HELLO WORLD", 30), vec2(300.0, 300.0), BLACK);
// using exactly the same `Text` to create a 3d model
let text = scene.model(Text::new("HELLO 3D", 30), DrawParams::default());
