kool-editor-template

Template project for creating a new editor-based application with kool. The editor is still in an early state and not super-useful yet. Even worse, I can't yet guarantee project model compatibility during updates. So any editor-made scene setup might not be usable with future versions anymore.

So you definitely should not use this for any productive projects and consider it to be more of a demo / test project.

How to start

Clone this repo and import the kool-editor-template directory into your favourite IDE (e.g. IntelliJ). Ideally, the build.gradle.kts is recognized and imported automatically.

First you will want to start the editor. You can do this from within IntelliJ by opening the gradle panel on the right side and start the runEditor task (kool-editor-template -> Tasks -> editor -> runEditor).

Alternatively you can start the editor from a terminal:

./gradlew runEditor

The project already contains some example content, which should show up in the editor. You can now edit the scene graphically in the editor and edit code in your IDE. Code changes should be detected by the editor and hot-reloaded.

Moreover, classes extending KoolBehavior will be recognized by the editor and can be added to objects as custom components (quite similar to Unity's Scripts). The sample code contains the class SampleRotationAnimator, which gives a simple example of such a custom behavior class. Notice that public members (like rotationSpeed and speedMulti in this example) show up in the editor UI and can be manipulated at runtime.