ForgeSim 0.1.0-preview.1

ForgeSim 0.1.0-preview.1

First downloadable Windows preview of the ForgeSim Sandbox.

Included Features

• glTF metallic-roughness PBR rendering.
• Base-color, normal, metallic-roughness, occlusion, and emissive textures.
• Image-based lighting, an environment background, exposure, and tone mapping.
• Editable directional, point, and spot lights.
• Object and light selection and transform gizmos.
• Undo and redo for gizmo transform edits.
• A docked Scene viewport, hierarchy, Inspector, and debug controls.
• Scene-document saving and loading through native Windows file dialogs.
• Persistent editor layout stored in the user's application-data directory.
• A bundled PBR material gallery and HDR environment.

Running

Extract the entire ZIP and launch ForgeSimSandbox.exe.

Keep the assets directory beside the executable.

The current renderer requires an OpenGL 4.6-capable graphics driver.
See README.md for resource paths and troubleshooting.

Known Limitations

• This is an early development preview.
• Interactive scenes currently support one shared model asset.
• Scene documents reference assets rather than embedding or copying them.
• Undo and redo currently cover gizmo transform edits.
• Shadows and additional showcase rendering effects remain in development.
• Physics, runtime tool interactions, and VR are not yet available.
• Purchased workshop assets and other optional external scenes are not included.

User Data

Default Windows locations:

• Layout: %LOCALAPPDATA%/ForgeSim/Settings/imgui.ini
• Scenes: %LOCALAPPDATA%/ForgeSim/Scenes/

The native file dialog may restore a previously visited folder.
User-selected save locations remain supported.

Reporting Problems

Include:

• ForgeSim version
• Windows version
• Graphics hardware and driver version
• Steps to reproduce
• Relevant console output