game_engine

My game engine I made for a project for CSC 562 at North Carolina State University, Spring 2025.

Building

Currently building is only available on Windows. Build by:

make all

Running

The project can be run by

cd bin;
./app_2D <scene json file>.json

NOTE: You must ALWAYS be at the same level of the application to run correctly in the terminal.

NOTE: This application can only be run from the terminal as of now. Double clicking it would lead to an error as we need to provide the scene name.

How the engine looks for data

Make sure your data is laid out as so:

app_2D
glfw3.dll
lua51.dll
data
|-->res
|    |
|    ----><resource_name_1>
|    |      |
|    |      |----><resource_name_1>.bin // model file
|    |      |----><resource_name_1>.fs  // shaders
|    |      |----><resource_name_1>.vs
|    |      |----><resource_name_1>.png
|    |
|    |
|    ----><resource_name_2>
|    |      |
|    |      |----><resource_name_2>.bin 
|    |      |----><resource_name_2>.fs
|    |      |----><resource_name_2>.vs
|    |      |----><resource_name_2>.png
|    .
|    .
|    .
|
-->scripts
   |--><script_name_1>.lua
   |--><script_name_2>.lua

--> screenbuffer.fs // This file MUST be there

Converting models to .bin

A converter script objconverted.py has been provided to convert obj model files to bin files to be used with the engine. Use it as so:

python3 objconverter.py <source_file>.obj <dest_file>.bin