After 4 days of refactoring hell, my work-in-progress Renegade HUD finally renders again

This feels like a great excuse to share a little progress video

Converting C++ to Lua for this C&C Renegade HUD has driven me to create a little tool to help with some of the more repetitive parts of the process

The code is super brittle and there's lots of room for improvement, but it's going to save me a lot of time in the long run

Look at this. I'm not a professional game dev, but I've dabbled in modding and Unity for now multiple decades. I know for a fact it's really, truly not that hard to get an arm to animate towards an interaction point better than this

@jenmsft.bsky.social The fact that any non-standard title bar requires you to disable all window decorations and remake them from scratch causes even Microsoft's first-party apps have inconsistent UI/UX on even the operating system's core interface elements like the close button

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