​​ShowBase Refactor
​​Design principles
  • ​​First class C++ support
  • ​​Prefer composition over god object (todo elaborate)
  • ​​Easy to use for rapid prototyping (current system requires only 2 lines of code to start Panda)
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​​Existing Issues
  • ​​Multi-windowing is ugly
  • ​​Not available in C++, creating divide between C++ and Python users
  • ​​Confusing naming conventions (historical)
  • ​​Too many things in one place (God Object)
  • ​​Writing to builtin scope
  • ​​Designed as singleton (partly due to built-in scope writing, partly due to taking control of other singletons)
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​​Discussion
​​We have an opportunity to encourage good development practices. We should be careful that ShowBase doesn't encourage lazy/bad programming practices, whilst still being relatively simple to configure.
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