raintrix

Matrix-inspired text rain effect

raintrix-v0.1.5.mp4

Requirements

• Vulkan 1.3+ loader, driver, and capable GPU
• Desktop compositor (Wayland/X11/Win32)
• (Windows) Latest C++ Runtime
• (Linux) libc, libm, libgcc

Usage

Download the latest release or build from source, and run the executable. Pass --generate to print generated (default) configuration to standard output.

Features

All supported features are exposed through the configuration file. Generated config has annotated fields.

• Customizable font
• Customizable character set to sample glyphs from (ASCII only)
• Fullscreen or windowed
• Customizable tint, max trails, density, tile height, max depth, and speed
• Keybind to show statistics (and tweak density / vsync)

Attribution

• Sketch font (embedded into binary)

Contributing

Pull/merge requests are welcome.

Original repository