An engine which is the result of my never-ending quest to understand how things work and has become my go-to place for research. It's designed around the philosophy of favoring fast real-time solutions over baked/static ones, a spartan approach offering a truly dynamic experience.

If you're also on the lookout for knowledge, then you might find this engine to be a helpful study resource. This is because a lot of effort goes into into building and maintaining a clean, modern and overall high quality architecture, an architecture that will ensure continuous development over the years.

This engine is a research tool, don't expect to make games with it yet.

• For occasional updates regarding the project's development, you can follow me on twitter.

• For questions, suggestions, help and any kind of general discussion join the discord server.

• For issues and anything directly related to the project, feel free to open an issue.

• Embracing the open source ethos and respecting the MIT license is greatly appreciated. This means that you can copy all the code you want as long as you include a copy of the original license.

Build status

Livestreams

If there is something interesting to talk about, I tend to do livestreams over at discord.

Media

Features (v0.31)

• 10+ font file formats support (FreeType)
• 20+ audio file formats support (FMOD)
• 30+ image file formats support (FreeImage)
• 40+ model file formats support (Assimp)
• Vulkan and DirectX 11 backends (same HLSL shaders compile everywhere)
• Deferred rendering with transparency (under a single render path and using the same shaders)
• Principled BSDF supporting anisotropic, clearcoat and cloth materials (combined with things like normal mapping, parallax, masking, occlusion etc)
• Bloom (Based on a study of Resident Evil 2's RE Engine)
• Volumetric lighting
• Lights with physical units (lux for directional, candelas for point and spot lights)
• Shadows with penumbra and colored translucency (Cascaded and omnidirectional shadow mapping with Vogel filtering)
• SSAO (Screen space ambient occlusion)
• SSR (Screen space reflections)
• SSS (Screen space shadows)
• TAA (Temporal anti-aliasing)
• Physically based camera (Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO)
• Depth of field (controlled by the aperture of the camera)
• Motion blur (controlled by the shutter speed of the camera)
• Real-time shader editor
• On the fly mip generation on the GPU, using a single dispatch.
• Font rendering
• Frustum culling
• Physics (Rigid bodies, Constraints, Colliders)
• Entity-component system
• Event system
• Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Controller)
• Debug rendering (Transform gizmo, scene grid, bounding boxes, colliders, raycasts, g-buffer visualization etc)
• Thread pool
• Engine rendered platform agnostic editor
• Profiling (CPU & GPU)
• Support for XML files
• Easy to build (Single click project generation which includes editor and runtime)
• AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening
• AMD FidelityFX Single Pass Downsampler
• AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0
• AMD Compressonator for texture compression

Roadmap

Currently

Future

• Skeletal Animation.
• Atmospheric Scattering.
• Dynamic resolution scaling.
• Export on Windows.
• UI components.
• Make editor more stylish.
• Scripting.