Hands-on Rust (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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It appears that impl GameState { … fn advance_level(&mut self) {} strong textshould bestrong text impl State, not impl GameState… In ...
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Hello @herbert ! Trying to get the very first “Hello, Bracket Terminal!" example to run (p. 53). I develop on an Amazon EC2 instance runn...
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Title: Hands-on Rust: monster pyramids due to simultaneous movement (page 157)
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The explanation on the random movement sys...
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If I use set_active_console(0) and set_active_console(1) in the render functions for Player and Map (like in the book), I o...
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Flappy Dragon Example:
Sync this code, and then copy the flappy_dragon director into another outside of the HandsOnRust tree ...
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Hands on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play
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Cargo.toml file in book:
[package]
name = "hello_bterm"...
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Finished the book. Also did the bonus content of compiling to wasm and running in a browser (which is just an amazing capabilit...
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While converting to data driven spawning the data specifies that an item (like a dungeon map) has a frequency of 1.
However, when they a...
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On page 206 (Talking about P1.0) the trait MapArchitect is defined with the function ‘new’. In the last paragraph of this page the functi...
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In the part “Fill the Map With Walls” on page 90 it is stated that the iterator passes variable t inside the closure as referen...
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When running the program in chapter 8, “Implementing Combat”, the printout Health before attack was never printed so I assumed something ...
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I finally finished! I found a small typo in chapter 15 in the epub. In one spot the code mentions
impl Template {
pub fn spawn_enti...
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Again using epub so don’t know the exact page number.
In this snipped of code, what does the movers.iter_mut(ecs) line do in t...
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I don’t know the exact page unfortunately since I am reading it in an epub.
I am having trouble understanding what this code does and wh...
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Hi, I need some help, I’m new to rust and was learning through your book. but I got stuck at the last stage of distribution. Whenever I t...
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The layers in general are working, with the map, entities and hud. The tooltips are not showing up though. It seems that it is due to the...
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The code in page 227, the loop signalled with comment 5, it only needs 1 tile to be OK for the prefab to be OK. I don’t know if this is a...
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I completed chapter 6 but am getting the following error when running:
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to load texture: IoError(O...
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My silly brain caught a very small typo. I’m guessing that the “is” in this sentence was meant to instead be “in”:
This library uses th...
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I had to use DrawBatch to get the game over screen to display:
fn game_over(&mut self, ctx: &mut BTerm) {
let mut draw_batch = ...
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Fantastic book! Question:
On page 97, when building a BTerm, why is it necessary to specify the terminal’s dimensions in two ways: ...
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As the title says, first line of this page should be Templates not Template
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In Page 263 where we add the stub function advance_level, the book says it goes inside impl GameState but in the code it goes inside impl...
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If you copy/paste the second TOML snipped with features, there are two issues:
It’s presented as multi-line, but TOML doesn’t support m...
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In the flappy bird example in the book, the example code uses i32 as the type for the player’s y position. This has a possible unintended...
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Source code in page 207. When the monster is pushed, its new position is twice SCREEN_WIDTH.
Probably one of them was supposed to be HEIGHT
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After finishing the code at the end of Chapter 7 and running it, monsters sometimes don’t get destroyed on collision. Instead, the player...
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First of all, sorry for not providing a pagenumber, but I don’t know it, since I’m reading the book on Medium.
To my problem: I hav...
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If I use set_active_console(0) and set_active_console(1) in the render functions for Player and Map (like in the book), I o...
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Copying the example code from GitHub - thebracket/HandsOnRust: The source code that accompanies Hands-on Rust: Effective Learni...
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Hi, I need some help, I’m new to rust and was learning through your book. but I got stuck at the last stage of distribution. Whenever I t...
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When running the program in chapter 8, “Implementing Combat”, the printout Health before attack was never printed so I assumed something ...
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@herbert
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction here: I’m working through the book Hands-On Rust and have just written the c...
New
Hands on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play
Page 48
Cargo.toml file in book:
[package]
name = "hello_bterm"...
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@herbert
Flappy Dragon Example:
Sync this code, and then copy the flappy_dragon director into another outside of the HandsOnRust tree ...
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@herbert
Finished the book. Also did the bonus content of compiling to wasm and running in a browser (which is just an amazing capabilit...
New
@herbert
In the part “Fill the Map With Walls” on page 90 it is stated that the iterator passes variable t inside the closure as referen...
New
On page 206 (Talking about P1.0) the trait MapArchitect is defined with the function ‘new’. In the last paragraph of this page the functi...
New
While converting to data driven spawning the data specifies that an item (like a dungeon map) has a frequency of 1.
However, when they a...
New
@herbert
Again using epub so don’t know the exact page number.
In this snipped of code, what does the movers.iter_mut(ecs) line do in t...
New
I finally finished! I found a small typo in chapter 15 in the epub. In one spot the code mentions
impl Template {
pub fn spawn_enti...
New
Title: Hands-on Rust: monster pyramids due to simultaneous movement (page 157)
Hi @herbert ,
The explanation on the random movement sys...
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Title: Hands-On Rust (Chap 8 (Adding a Heads Up Display)
It looks like
.with_simple_console_no_bg(SCREEN_WIDTH*2, SCREEN_HEIGHT*2...
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I’m new to Rust and am using this book to learn more as well as to feed my interest in game dev. I’ve just finished the flappy dragon exa...
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Title: Hands-On Rust (Chapter 11: prefab)
Just played a couple of amulet-less games. With a bit of debugging, I believe that your can_p...
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I completed chapter 6 but am getting the following error when running:
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to load texture: IoError(O...
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Hi,
build fails on:
bracket-lib = “~0.8.1”
when running on Mac Mini M1 Rust version 1.5.0:
Compiling winit v0.22.2
error[E0308]: mi...
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Title: Hands-on Rust: question about get_component (page 295)
(feel free to respond. “You dug you’re own hole… good luck”)
I have somet...
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Tit...
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I get a significant glitch on my raspberry pi - there is a thin line to the left of the player that runs from the top of the screen to th...
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After finishing the code at the end of Chapter 7 and running it, monsters sometimes don’t get destroyed on collision. Instead, the player...
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Excellent book. I like it very much. Just a few questions that occurred to me while reading the pathfinding section in Chapter 9 on page ...
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In the “Prompting for the Visitor’s Name” section, contextually, the reader has just created the treehouse project. As they look for a p...
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MapBuilder doesn’t have new method.
MapBuilder::new -> MapBuilder::build
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On page 140 we change the initialization code of the dungeon crawler to be able to use graphics
As with other code examples before th...
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In the end of chapter 7 we write the movement function in movement.rs
We call the camera on_player_move method like so:
camera.on_play...
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