debut-engine

Simple, work in progress, learning-oriented C++ graphics engine.

Build instructions (Windows only atm, latest branch is c#-scripting):

• Visual Studio 2019 or above required, CMake required
• Clone this repository
• Run git checkout --latest_branch_name--, where --latest_branch_name-- is the name written above.
• Run git submodule init
• Run git submodule update
• Run the relevant script in the scripts folder. Win-GenMSVC19.bat generates a Visual Studio 2019 solution, Win-GenMSVC22.bat generates a Visual Studio 2022 solution.
• Open DebutEngine.sln, right click on Debutant, click on "Set as startup project"
• Compile the solution
• Copy the Resources/assets folder in Build/Debutant/Build
• If you want to open the default projects too, move the Lib and Debut folders there as well.

Yes, I should really add some CMake stuff to automatically copy things. I should also probably make a proper installer and put the Resources in a better place.

TODO List:

• Architecture
  • Multithreading
  • Vulkan
  • SPIR-V
• 2D
  • Tilemaps (editor too)
• Physics
  • 2D Physics
    • Joints
  • 3D physics
    • Capsule and cylinder colliders, joints
    • The cool stuff that Jolt apparently supports
  • Triggers
• VFX
  • Particle systems
• Rendering
  • PBR rendering
  • Post processing effects
    • Anti aliasing
    • Bloom
    • Depth of field
    • Motion blur
    • Cromatic aberration
    • HDR
    • Color curves
    • Ambient occlusion
  • Deferred rendering
  • LODs
    • Veeery ambitious but I'd like to have a look at Nanite
  • Fog
• Animation
  • 2D Skeletal
  • 2D Traditional
  • 3D
• AssetManager
  • Release resources when not used
  • Detect file system changes?
• UI system
  • Probably use an external library
• Utility
  • Prefabs
  • Event system
• Editor
  • Camera preview
  • Debug Console
  • Shader / material graph
  • Sprite slicing
  • Move files (don't break the AssetManager while doing so)
  • Terrain editor :O
• Debugging
  • Profiler
  • Memory usage measuring (custom allocators, GC)