Description
The C++ based engine that I have been developing throughout my time in graduate school. It supports 2D and 3D games and has several systems and utilities that make developing games easier. Currently, the engine only works for Windows devices.
Features
A '*' denotes a system that is further elaborated on in this page
Listed below are some prominent systems and functions that are included in the engine:
Render System - Powered by DirectX 11, has several supporting classes like Shaders, Textures, Images, Cameras, and more to make rendering convenient.
Audio System - Powered by FMOD, gives the developer tools to create reusable sounds, music and make spatial audio in 3D environments.
Input System - Uses Windows libraries to read keyboard, mouse and Xbox controller inputs. Allows the user to check all key and button states.
Job System* - A simple manager that allows for clean multithreaded tasks. Provides a Job base class that game code can create a subclass of in order to create new types of tasks.
Network System - Provides basic functionality for Server/Client TCP connections for Windows.
Event System* - (Currently being rewritten) Allows games and other parts of the engine to subscribe specific types of functions to events named by strings.
Job System for Multithreading
Allows for user defined Job classes which contain a virtual Execute() function to run code.
Manages Jobs in completed, executing and completed categories moving Jobs according to its state and cleaning up their memory once completed
Contains N number of WorkerThreads which coordinate under the JobSystem to complete Jobs. N is defined by the user and defaults to a number depending on the device's detected number of CPU cores.
Example usage can be seen in Simple Miner where it is used to multithread chunk generation, saving and loading
Engine Event System
Uses a common EventCallbackFunction typedef which returns a pointer and takes in EventArgs& to create a list of subscribed functions to string keys
Note*: This is currently being improved upon using C++ Templates to make general subscriber functions that aren't limited to specific types
Manages subscription keys and their associated lists of functions subscribed to those keys
Provides convenience management and event firing functions to the global space of the Engine allowing other Engine code and game code to add their own functions and fire events