Directus3D is a game engine that started as a hobby project and evolved into something greater. The source code is clean, modern and tackles a lot of aspects of engine development.
The project is at an early development stage and there is a lot experimentation going on, regarding what works best. This means that the wisest thing to do is to approach it as study material, without expecting to make games with it (yet).
There is always a chance that a part of the engine will be unstable and chances are that I am aware of it. Opening an issue can be helpful (and is always appreciated), fixing the issue and doing a pull request is optimal.
Architectual quality is prioritized over development speed. Enjoy.
- 20+ audio file formats support.
- 30+ image file formats support.
- 40+ 3D file formats support.
- Cascaded shadow mapping.
- Component-based game object system.
- Cross-Platform state of the art editor.
- D3D11 rendering backend
- Deferred rendering.
- Frustum culling.
- HDR rendering.
- Multi-threading.
- Physically based shading.
- Physics.
- Post-process effects like FXAA & LumaSharpen.
- Scripting (C/C++).
- Windows support.
| Feature | Completion | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Easy to build | 100% | Single click project generation which includes editor and runtime. |
| New editor | 90% | Replace Qt editor with ImGui editor. |
| Debug Rendering | 90% | Transformation gizmos, scene grid, bounding boxes, colliders, raycasts, g-buffer visualization etc. |
| Improved shadows | 90% | Sharper shadows with smoother edges and no shimmering. |
| SSDO | 100% | Screen space directional occlusion. |
| Bloom | 90% | - |
| Screen space reflections | 90% | |
| Custom mipchain generation | 100% | Higher texture fidelity using Lanczos3 scaling. |
| Point light support | 100% | - |
| XML I/O | 100% | - |
| Architecture improvements | 100% | Performance improvements, bug fixes and overall higher quality codebase. |
| Font importing and rendering | 100% | Ability to load any font file |
- C# scripting.
- Vulkan rendering backend.
- Dynamic resolution scaling.
- Real-time ray tracing (experimental).
- Draw call batching (static & dynamic).
- Export on Windows.
- Skeletal Animation.
- Volumetric Lighting.
- Global Illumination.
- UI components.
- Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.txt for details.