Sprite and Text based Graphical Interface. A glorified sprite and text renderer to cook up sprite based game uis. Pixelperfect cursor detection included, transparency supported.

Basically, STGI allows you to define ui areas and put a texture and text on them. It also detects if the cursor hovers over non-transparent parts of the texture. This allows pixel perfect mouse hit detection for sprite based user interfaces.

STGI is fairly well optimized, with a main focus on static sprites. It also supports animated sprites and rendering text.

Demo

Features

• Flexible and simple to use (could be utilized for more than just ui)
• Extensively hardware accelerated
• Pixelperfect cursor hit detection
• Supports transparency
• Well optimized
• No native-only wgpu features used (good for wasm)
• Windowing library independend
• Integrated text layout and rendering
• Supports animated sprites

Examples

To run the example in the repository, run the following command:

cargo run --example hello_stgi --release

FAQ

Why the assault rifle?

The assault rifle in the logo is a Steyr AUG, also known as StG-77 (Sturmgewehr-77). I used it as a logo for three reasons:

• STGI and StG is a cool word play
• It's the rifle I had while in the military
• It fits the whole pixel perfect hit detection and game ui theme

Isn't this just a glorified sprite (and text) renderer?

Well, apart from the cursor hit detection, yes. It's a simple to use sprite and glyph renderer designed to be used for simple, sprite based uis. Think Dark Souls; Dark Souls used a sprite based ui and the game is goated.