ZenRen

Simple, high performance DirectX11.1 renderer for Gothic assets (VDF or single files).
Attempts to closely recreate original G1/G2-AddOn look and lighting.

Download (Windows)

• https://github.com/Katharsas/ZenRen/releases/latest

Currently supports

• Worldmesh (ZEN)
• Static Objects (VOBs)
• Static Light
  • Lightmaps
  • Per-Vertex Colors
  • Per-Vob Static Light Accumulation (Color & Direction)
• Time-Of-Day Skylight
• Asset File Formats
  • Level: VDF
  • Objects: VDF
  • Textures: VDF, TGA, PNG

Features

• Frame Limiter
• Simple Forward Renderer
  • Linear Colors
  • MSAA, up to 4x SMAA
  • Transparency Multisampling (Alpha-To-Coverage with Sharpening)
  • Resolution Scaling
  • Depth Prepass
• Postprocessing
  • Tonemapping
  • Gamma, Brightness, Contrast
• UI (ImGUI)
  • High DPI Aware

TODO

• Sky
• Water / Morph-Meshes
• Dynamic Lights
• Dynamic Objects (MOBs)
• Asset File Formats
  • Level: ZEN (outside VDF), OBJ
  • Objects: 3DS, OBJ
• Loading single objects without level

Options

  --level     Level ZEN name.
                Example: "WORLD.ZEN"
				 
  --vdfDir    Root dir containing VDFs to be loaded (will check all subfolders).
                Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic"
				 
  --assetDir  Root dir containing additional assets (will check all subfolders).
                Currently supports .TGA files.
                Example: ".\my-mod-assets"

Screenshots

License

Copyright (c) 2024 - Jan Mothes

This project's first-party code is "source available" for now.

Third-Party

• lib/DirectXMath - MIT
• lib/DirectXTex - MIT
• lib/g3log - Public Domain / Unlicense
• lib/imgui - MIT
• lib/magic_enum - MIT
• lib/tinyobj - MIT
• lib/ZenKit - MIT
• lib/ZenLib - MIT