Awesome 3D Engine List

This is a list of 3D Engine related papers and code resources. It focuses on game engine resources, mostly on recent material.

Beginning material

• Game Engines - A Guide for Writing Your Own - Reddit thread that has lots of useful info.
• Learn Computer Graphics From Scratch!

Books

• Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition by Jason Gregory
• Books by David H. Eberly - Eberly has written a number of books about 3D Engines and 3D Physics.
• Real-Time 3D Rendering with DirectX and HLSL by Paul Varcholik - Windows only.
• Designing a Modern Rendering Engine (PDF) - Thesis from 2007 so somewhat dated, but good starting point (and free).

Design

• Data Driven Renderer (PDF)
• Data Driven Rendering by Gabriel Sassone
• Modern Renderer Design (Thread)
• OpenGL Renderer Design (Blog post)
• Rendering Engine Design (PDF)
• A Reactive 3D Game Engine in Scala
• Stateless Rendering
• Destinys's Renderer
• Rendering in Cesium

Videos

• 3D Game Engine Development

Physically Based Rendering

• Physically based shading papers/tutorials? - Reddit Thread
• Moving Frostbite to PBR
• PBR and Light Source Amount in Modern Games (thread)
• PBR Guide (Allegoritmic)
• PBR for UE4
• PBR for sketchfab

Lighting

• Forward+ (PDF)
• Forward vs Deferred vs Forward+ Rendering with DirectX 11
• Tile based forward rendering?
• 2048 Point Lights @ 60 FPS

Global Illumination

• Which Global Illumination Technique Is Best For Your Game?
• GI in Games (PDF)
• Stunning Video Game Graphics With Voxel Cone Tracing (Video)
• Implementing Voxel Cone Tracing

Shaders

• Shader Forge (Unity)
• Shader Sandwich
• The Machine Shader System

Terrain and Sky

• Virtual Terain Project
• Creating our own Skydome

Optimizations

• Triple Depth Culling
• Show HN: OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering
• Fast Hierarchical Culling
• Making Faster Fragment Shaders by Using Tessellation Shaders
• Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline with Compute - Frostbite
• Automatic Shader Simplification using Surface Signal Approximation (PDF)
• Software optimization resources
• [Writing an efficient Vulkan Renderer)(https://zeux.io/2020/02/27/writing-an-efficient-vulkan-renderer/)

Entity Component Systems

• Wikipedia article
• ECS and Rendering

Vulkan

• Vulkan in Banshee 3D

Physics

• Introduction to Networked Physics - Reddit thread
• Unified Particle Physics for Real-Time Applications
• A Stream-based Time Synchronization Technique For Networked Computer Games

AI

• ThelDoctor/CrystalAI: A Utility Theory Based AI for C# and Unity

Code

• Building a 3D Game Engine with .NET Core
• EntityX - Fast Entity Component
• Tiny Renderers
• https://github.com/WindyDarian/Vulkan-Forward-Plus-Renderer - Vulkan Forward+ Renderer
• https://github.com/jian-ru/laugh_engine - A Vulkan implementation of real-time PBR rendere
• https://github.com/BearishSun/BansheeEngine - Full C++14 Engine with Vulkan renederer
• https://github.com/Friduric/voxel-cone-tracing- Voxel Code Tracing
• https://github.com/domme/VoxelConeTracing - Voxel Code Tracing
• https://github.com/arkenthera/YumeEngine - Yume Engine
• http://taichi.graphics/ - Physically based Computer Graphics Library
• http://www.yeppp.info/ - Yeppp! is a high-performance SIMD-optimized mathematical library for x86, ARM, and MIPS
• https://github.com/networkprotocol/libyojimbo - A library for creating secure client/server network protocols over UDP

Blogs

• Humus - 3D game engine research and techniques
• Yume Engine - 3D Engine research
• BitSquid/Stingray- Autodesk Engine
• Z-Fight Club

Tutorials

• OpenGL Step by Step - OpenGL Development

Sites

• The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

Forums

• Graphics Programming and Theory
• /r/GraphicsProgramming
• /r/VoxelGameDev
• /r/OpenGL
• /r/Vulkan
• /r/DirectX

Resources

• http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/data/meshes.xml
• Textures

Other Lists

• GDC 2016 Presentations
• Graphics Resources
• Real-Time Rendering
• Real-Time Global Illumination Techniques Collection
• Ke-Sen Huang's List - Long list of graphics conference papers.
• Awsome Graphics
• Sample 3D Data
• A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
• Graphics Programming Weekly