Inf-Forge Engine

Inf-Forge is an engine for writing video games and graphical applications on Windows.

Building the examples

Each example is a single build target, defined within examples\CMakeLists.txt.

Using the framework to write an application

Within the CMakeLists.txt for your project, select the backend(s) to use for your project.

# can be space delimited list to select multiple backends.
# the list of backends is: GL_BACKEND, DX12_BACKEND, VK_BACKEND, CPU_BACKEND.
set(ProjectBackend "GL_BACKEND")

Finally, add the engine subdirectory. This will define a target, but will never call project.

add_subdirectory(Automata-Engine)

Projects written within Inf-Forge Engine must have a standard directory structure:

<ProjectFolder>
  src\
  include\
  res\

The include\ folder is optional. Items within the res\ directory tree will be made available to your project builds. Each source file within the source\ directory tree will be used as a translation unit.

Notes

There is intentionally little documentation for the Inf-Forge Engine. Users are encouraged to read and experiment with the examples.

When using the CPU_BACKEND, the job of the render thread is to populate gameMemory->backbufferPixels.

The application is a service to the engine. The application must define callbacks for the engine to call. The application is compiled as a DLL and consequentially can be hot-reloaded after recompilation by the engine.