This engine is built using EnTT, a custom Scene System, my own Windows messaging framework, and fully supports both Vulkan and OpenGL rendering backends.
The project is my life's work, nearly all knowledge in engineering I have goes into this in one way or another.
- Entity Component System (ECS): Scene management powered by EnTT with a Behavior component system for lifecycle-driven scripting.
- Model & Texture Loading: Full GLTF/GLB pipeline with bindless texture support, mipmap generation, and multiple image formats.
- Rendering Abstraction: Vulkan and OpenGL renderers with complete feature parity.
- Skybox System: Cubemap rendering with adjustable rotation, exposure, and per-face textures.
- Spatial Partitioning: Scene-level BVH for accelerated frustum culling and ray queries.
- GPU-Driven Rendering: Vulkan bindless indexed indirect draw system for high-performance instancing.
- Text & SDF Rendering: MSDF-based text rendering and stylized SDF effects (outline, color, softness).
- Debug Rendering: Immediate-mode 3D debug mesh rendering.
- Input System: Keyboard and mouse input handled through Windows message hooks.
- Editor gizmos and property inspectors for primitive component fields.
- Archetype and prefab pipeline for Behavior components.
- Full scene serialization and deserialization.
- Physics integration with library abstraction (PhysX and Jolt).
- Compute-based culling pass + occlusion.
- Recursive parent-child transform hierarchy for UI entities.
- Controller input support.
- DLL + C# runtime bindings for external editor integration.
Once the current goals listed above are completed, development will shift toward advanced rendering and runtime systems:
- Physically Based Rendering (PBR)
- Clustered Forward+ rendering pipeline with global illumination
- Dynamic and baked shadow systems
- GPU-driven particle simulation
- Skeletal animation and ragdoll physics
- MiniAudio integration for audio playback
- Multithreaded file I/O and asynchronous scene streaming
- Binary GPU buffer asset formats for optimized runtime loading