linmad / nibble

[WIP] 3D\2D Render engine

Nibble

Everything starts from small and evolve to something big. The project mirrors my passion to learn computer graphics, C++, and art with programming. More like demoscene making or "games" maybe.

The current goal of this project to create a flexible and comfortable demo scene engine to make screenshots and small gifs, as I did previously done: Instagram nibble_hex ^_^

And yes maybe it's sort of overengineered but I'm aiming to play around with different graphical API's and platforms in the end.

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First version - render result and functionality

Implemented with C++, OpenGL and with other libraries GLEW, GLFW, GLM, Assimp.3.0 - Old project branch

How to build

Build system is MSBuild, so solution files already preconfigured you need only open it and execute solution build. Then you will find inside Nibble\bin {release/debug}-x64 prepared files.

Engine main loop idea

Singletons

• Logger can be accessed like LOGGER_CLIENT_INFO("msg")
• EventBus just to add event use EVENT_BUS_ADD_EVENT(Event)
• Engine allows to have one instance

External libraryies

Dependencies are forked and have minor modifications to use precompiled headers.

Development and testing environment info

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
GPU 1: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 Version 16.8

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TODO Section

Research more about that

• Debug support system? Or it's ok with logger and breakpoints?
• Memory system layer (Like I saw in the Snowdrop from Massive entertainment)
• Entity components system layer?
• Physics system layer?
• How to write automated tests for graphics?
• What else?

TODO LIST

• Add missing features of old version:
  • Shadows Maps
  • Omni-directional Shadows
  • Directional light
  • Spotlights
  • Point lights
  • Mesh renderers
  • Materials
  • Model importing from .obj
• Files (I/O), VFS (Virtual file system) support
• Engine input handlers like Arx libertatis has
• Move Visual studio Preprocessor definitions to platform.h and refactor MacroPlatform.h

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