acknext

A game engine prototype loosely inspired by the Acknex A8 engine.

Features

• bone animation
• Convenient custom shaders
• collider
• plugin support
  • terrain rendering (large scale, LOD, multitexturing)
  • wait(1)
  • default.c
  • cef (chromium embedded)
• custom resource files
• debug drawing
• entity update logic ("action")
• primitives audio (snd_play, …)
• I/O
  • virtual file system
  • BLOBs (binary files, support for deflate/inflate)
  • Serializer APIs for binary files
• flexibles rendering
  • "Standard" PBR-Renderer
  • Custom Materials
  • Arbitrary Geometry
  • OpenGL Wrapper
• Logging
• Metatagging of engine objekten (pass info to shader etc.)
• Event Handling
• Input
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• VIEWs for layered rendering

Building (Linux)

These instructions are only for building the core of the engine. Building the tools requires a complex setup yet to be simplified.

Dependencies

• Latest master Zig in $PATH
• glslangValidator, available in most package managers
• gnu make
• gnu binutils
• 7-zip command line util (7z)
• qt5-base for rcc
• SDL2
• SDL2_mixer

Build Steps

1. Prepare the resource environment (make -C resource)
2. Build the engine (zig build)
3. Test it (./zig-cache/bin/rotating-cube)

Licence

Acknext is published under the zlib licence.

External libraries

The following libraries are used and have the following licences:

Library	Licence	Static Linking	Dynamic Linking	Requires Credits
SDL2	zlib	✓	✓	✗
SDL_mixer	zlib	✓	✓	✗
ODE	BSD 3-Clause	✓	✓	✓
gl3w	Public Domain	✓	✓	✗
glm	MIT	✓	✓	✓
imgui	MIT	✓	✓	✓
json	MIT	✓	✓	✓
physfs	zlib	✓	✓	✗
stb	MIT	✓	✓	✓
zlib	zlib	✓	✓	✗