astro ~> *

THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED

This project was discarded as the architecture slowly become much more complex than I anticipated. The design was for all intends and purposes, a failure. But I did learn quite a lot from the mistakes I've made in this project. I started working on the spiritual successor to astro, and that is CR. See here: https://github.com/italrr/cr.

astro is a highly concurrent 3D game engine made in C++11. It's targeted to support Vulkan and OpenGL 4.5 out of the box.

Objectives & philosophies applied since day one:

• High concurrency
• Major preference for parallel pipelines
• Open World esque world maps and scenes
• Platform agnostic rendering engine out-of-the-box, aiming to support the following for release version:
  • OpenGL
  • Vulkan
• Multi-platform/OS support:
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Ability to modify any aspects of the engine through scripts and JSON files
• Easily moddable games
• Native scripting language built-in (Lua)

Dependencies

Note: some of the math code used in this software was taken from GLM. I will include apropiate disclaimers in the future.

• Assimp
• FreeType

How to build

Basically:

cmake .
make
./astro

About the game

The game I've decided to make with this engine is a co-op procedurally generated dungeon-crawler. Major classic RPG characteristics will be a must in the design.

WIP [ENGINE] [P -> Progress | D -> Done | S -> Stalled]

Stage 1 "Get it to work"

• [D] Implement Assimp for 3D model loading
• [D] 3D model animation
• [D] Texture loading
• [D] Shader loading
• [D] Basic camera
• [D] File management system (indexing, asset loader, etc)
• [D] Input (Keyboard/Mouse)
• [P] Sync/async job system
• [P] Basic general utilities (File manipulation/reading, hashing, string manipulation, time, etc)
• [P] Math utilities (matrix and vector operations, etc.)
• [P] Basic lighting system
• [P] Multi-threading architecture (Rendering thread, engine core thread, game thread, etc.)
• [P] OpenGL support
• [S] Network Support
• [S] Data/file transfer
• [S] Font loading/rendering
• [S] UI System
• [S] Multi-layer rendering (GUI, Console, 3D world, Menues)
• [S] World map (streaming) system
• [S] World simulation
• [S] In-game console
• [S] Basic 3D Physics
• [S] Basic 3D audio
• [S] Integrate Lua

Stage 2 "Make it fancy"

• [] Advanced lighting system

Stage 3 "Ok, now we're talking"

• [] Vulkan Support
• [] Gamepad support