Welcome to the Engine I Have No Name For (codenamed: 8ball-engine)

Overview

• This engine does not do anything new and fancy except trying to incorporate memory safety as much as possible, whilst maintaining performance (by utilizing the usage of smart pointers, mainly std::weak_ptr and std::shared_ptr)
• For now this engine is only capable of rendering 2D and doesn't have a scene system nor a camera system
• The engine is based on the Entity Component System and it is mainly controlled via the GameManager.cpp and the components folder
• You can add more IO functionality in the util folder (audio, scripting, textures, windows, gui, etc), there is already a bunch of functionality implemented there - Window initializing (with SDL2), gui (with Dear ImGui), Texture loading and rendering (with SDL2).
• For rendering this engine uses SDL2 because of its cross-platform abilities and support of multiple rendering backends such as Vulkan, OpenGL and Direct3D.

Building/Compiling

• On Windows you would have to install MSYS2 with configured SDL2 and SDL2_image in it (ImGui is already integrated in the engine, check src/util/imgui)
• On GNU+Linux/Unix you would only have to set up your compilers and libraries through your package manager of choice
• To compile the project you need to run the build.py script which would go through the whole src folder and compile everything

Idea for a Scene System (TODO)

• the engine uses the ECS at its core so a scene could be an array of entities with components inside in the format of JSON

Example:

[
    {
        "components": {
            "TransformComponent2D": {
                "Position": [1.2, 2.4],
                "Rotation": [],
                "Scale": []
            },
            "SpriteComponent": {
                "SpriteImagePath": "path/to/your/image.png"
            }
            /* insert your behaviour components */
        }
    },
    {
        "components": {
            "TransformComponent2D": {
                "Position": [0, 0],
                "Rotation": [0, 0],
                "Scale": [0, 0]
            }
        }
    }
]