--- title: Homegrown Devlog - New UI & Mod Support(ish) | daily.dev description: A developer devlog covering progress on a custom-engine casual farming game called Homegrown. The week's work focused on two areas: overhauling the examine UI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/homegrown-devlog---new-ui-mod-support-ish--mk5l3xk6e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Homegrown Devlog - New UI & Mod Support(ish) | daily.dev og:description: A developer devlog covering progress on a custom-engine casual farming game called Homegrown. The week's work focused on two areas: overhauling the examine UI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/homegrown-devlog---new-ui-mod-support-ish--mk5l3xk6e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MK5l3Xk6e.png og:image:alt: Homegrown Devlog - New UI & Mod Support(ish) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Homegrown Devlog - New UI & Mod Support(ish) **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer devlog covering progress on a custom-engine casual farming game called Homegrown. The week's work focused on two areas: overhauling the examine UI panel (converting 3D world positions to 2D screen coordinates, building a component-based info panel framework, and redesigning the plant health display to show direct warnings instead of multiple status bars) and implementing basic mod support (allowing mods to supply their own language files, items, entities, and custom plants via a mods folder). A model converter tool for converting OBJ files to the game's custom format was also polished for release to Patreon supporters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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