the webcam's g👁ze

an independent study at Concordia University, Fall 2020

a graphics framework, and game, created in C# to learn OpenGL (OpenTK).

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a features and wishlist

entity architecture

• object-oriented (cache unfriendly) entity system
• support for component-based entity system
• support for data-oriented entity system which stores all like components in array of structs and have systems which act on them.

common gameplay engine features

• support for transform hierachies (parent-child relationships), currently unoptimized (not cached)
• walking sim type 2D movement system where walkable topology can be generated from meshes
• raycasting against individual triangle, plane and sphere colliders, an entity's colliders, or the world's colliders
• physics integration (likely gpu-accelerated)

rendering

• forward rendering
• scriptable offscreen buffers
• multiple lights (direction and point)
• normal mapping, with roughness maps
• reflections/light probes
• extendable material system that supports sending custom attributes per material or per entity
• shadow mapping (doesn't follow camera)
• texture atlas support
• texture streaming and dynamic atlas creation
• static batching (of static geometry at runtime)
• dynamic batching

misc

• serialization
• editor gui
• audio
• scripts that can be compiled seperately from engine (multiple assemblies)
• simple multi-threading, so that render loop, entity stuff, and audio stuff happen on seperate threads.
• profiling