TUD: The UI Designer

TGA Tooling project

Engine: Cave Engine (Custom personal engine)

TUD is a Json creation tool that allows artists to make UIs and export them into a format that programmers can implement into games.

My Contributions

  • Export functionality

  • UI

  • Documentation

UI

Using DearImgui to create ui tools to add images to the scene, rename them, pick the name and edit them in any way one deems necessary.

Export functionality

Used the nlohmann json tool to create a json format that is both useable and readable, allowing developers to quickly import the layout and check the names for the intended functionality of each element.

Lessons learned

This was my introduction to gamedev so everything from making mistakes to organizing people around ideas and