Rounded edges in 2d and 3d (again)

[macbryla]

I am new to Bevy and am looking at Bevy as a solution for data visualisation and potentially visual simulation projects in the future. For data visualisations to work, they need to be expressive, intuitive, and beautiful. It's the beautiful part that I have a few questions about.

Let me give you an example of an existing data visualisation I created a while back. It is written using Egui and runs in wasm. I attached a screenshot, and you can see the live version here (https://macbryla.com/data/aus-energy-transition/viz/index.html), which auto-updates with the latest data every 5 minutes.
This all works fine, and I will explain later why moving from Egiu to Bevy interests me.

I tried to recreate the above example in Bevy, but as far as I know, I cannot create 2D rectangles with rounded edges. It seems like a minor issue, but in my example, it makes the visualisation much more visually pleasing. I also assume that the same limitation applies to 3D cubes, which can only have sharp edges.

Is this feature on the way anytime soon? Or is there a solution to reproduce the above in Bevy? I have seen some discussion but am unsure where that is today.

I want to move from Egui to Bevy for this work to better animate some of the transitions, as this is a live data viz. I also think that a 3D option using cubes and rotating them as new data becomes available every 5 minutes. This visualisation lives on a massive screen, and a visual indicator when data changes would be great. So, the view would still look 2D, but the transitions would be 3D.

Egui is brilliant at what it does, but I think it would be much cleaner to code a richer visualisation with smooth transitions in Bevy.

I would be very interested in your thoughts, and maybe I am missing some Bevy features that would allow me to do this today.
Thanks all.

[rparrett]

There's no built-in helper for creating these shapes, but all the machinery exists to build meshes with round corners or any shape you want.

There are plenty of options if you don't want to do that though!

Check out out the shapes section of Bevy Assets as well as bevy_prototype_lyon which isn't in that category for some reason and recently added support for rounded corners. WASM support in these crates may vary.

There's also a PR in flight that adds a corner radius option to UI nodes.

[macbryla]

Brilliant, thank you.
Yes, I should have looked at the plugins.