A 3D DirectX 12 game engine written in C++ inspired by Primal. The Lotus Editor is written in C# and will always only support windows. But as the game is built from the project, rather than the editor, it is possible games can be made for non-windows platform in the future if I ever implement a graphics API other than DirectX.
At this time, the engine and the editor both require Windows 10 or 11 and a GPU that supports DirectX 12. In addition, in order to build ContentTools, Autodesk FBX SDK 2020.2 must be installed on the device.
In order to not have to modify project settings, ensure the include and library folders can be found at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\FBX\FBX SDK\2020.2
Suggested to add command line option /ignore:4099 to linker options to supress warnings about missing FBX PDBs.
This is a rough idea of what to expect. No ETA is given for anything. As of January 16th, 2023 I am still currently working on getting DirectX 12 supported and ready to use.
- Window handling, including support for multiple windows
- generational ID system
- ID integer based entity component system
- C++ native scripting
- Direct3D 12 support
- In progress
- Lotus managed pointer/memory types
- Lotus managed lists and vectors
- Vectors and free lists are implemented currently
- Textures
- Forward Lighting
- HLSL shaders
- With shader model 6.6, Dynamic Resources are currently bugged for recent drivers for RTX 3000 series and 4090
- Models and Meshes
- Animation
- Shadows
- Physics
- User input
- Cameras
- Forward+ rendering
- Material system
- Physically Based Rendering - PBR
- Image based lighting
- Multithreading
- Logging communication with the editor
- Particle systems
- Font rendering
- HDR support
- Antialiasing
- Screen space reflections
- Ambient occlusion
- More post processing effects
- Controller input
- Audio
- Bloom
- Tone mapping
- Geometry editor
- Partially implemented
- Project open/create dialog
- Win32 window hosting
- Content/asset browser
- Model importer
- Texture editor
- Material editor
- Lights
- Gizmos (rotating, scaling, translating)
- Animation editor
- Audio import and player
- Profiling tools