Features

The stone engine will implement most basic functionalities for a game engine.

This page is serving as a list of features that it should have.

Basic

• Scene definition : Have a library-agnostic way of defining a scene with its elements
• Scene renderer : Implementation of a scene renderer using a graphic library
  • Vulkan
• Window manager : Window manager that handle creation and destruction of windows, user input events
  • Glfw
• Mesh : Possibility to display a model mesh on the screen
• Camera : Way of moving the camera around a scene to render from different angles
• Lights : The colors of the different rendered elements are influenced by lights as elements of a scene
• Post Process : Post process effects to alter the final image into something else
• Importing : Can use external files to include assets in our scene like mesh, texture images, sounds etc...
• Custom scene : way to define a custom scene with extension

Advanced

• Voxel World : Rendering a voxel world with better specialized performances than cube meshes
• Skinned Mesh : Deformable mesh influenced by bones from a skeleton
• Particle system : Optimized way to render swarm of small elements
• Skybox : 360* elements that render where no elements are drawn
• Casted Shadow : Lights can project shadow that are influenced by each elements
• Animations : Playable scene animations over given time
  • Blending : Mix blending between multiple animations
  • State Machine : State machine that blend animations according to programmable states
• Deferred shading : Use multiple stage in a rendering pipeline to render an image
• Extended Rendering Effect
  • Normal mapping : Use of normal texture
  • Parralax mapping : Use of displacement height map
  • Bloom : Use of emissive material to influence elements around
  • HDR
  • SSAO : Use of depth buffer to modify screen ambient lightning
• PBR : Physical based rendering pipeline materials

Extra

• Physic : Body collision in the scene
• Audio : Playable sound in background or in 3D
• Network : Network communication with proxy elements mirroring remote elements from a server
• Widget : System to create 2D widgets for user interface and a way to render them in a 3D scene

Future

• KHR extensions : handle multiple file extensions https://wanna.helpjuice.com/khr-extensions
• Terrain : Tessellated plane mesh rendered with a height map
• Decal : Application of a texture projected on mesh
• AI Behavior Tree
• Image recording : Render image from the game engine directly to image files or videos