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this: feels sooooo good, font rendering working great (for a novice at least)
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1 Semicongine
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2 ===========
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4 Hi there
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6 This is a little game engine, mainly trying to wrap around vulkan and the
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7 operating system's windowing, input and audio system. I am using the last
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8 programming language you will ever need, [Nim](https://nim-lang.org/)
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10 Building
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11 --------
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13 Requires Nim to be installed and ```glslangValidator``` to be downloaded to the
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14 directory of the main compilation file (e.g. into ```examples/``` in order to
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15 compile the examples). It can be downloaded at
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16 https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/releases/.
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18 Run ```nim help``` to see a list of available build commands.
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20 Roadmap
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21 -------
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23 Here a bit to see what has been planed and what is done already. Is being
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24 updated frequently (marking those checkboxes just feels to good to stop working).
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26 Rendering:
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28 - [x] Vertex attributes, vertex data
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29 - [x] Shaders (allow for predefined and custom shaders)
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30 - [x] Uniforms
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31 - [x] Per-instance vertex attributes (required to be able to draw scene graph)
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32 - [x] Fixed framerate
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33 - [x] Instanced drawing (currently can use instance attributes, but we only support a single instance per draw call)
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34 - [x] Textures
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35 - [x] Materials (vertices with material indices)
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36 - [ ] Allow different shaders (ie pipelines) for different meshes
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38 Required for 3D rendering:
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40 - [ ] Depth buffering
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41 - [ ] Mipmaps
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43 Asset handling:
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44 - [x] Resource loading
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45 - [x] Mod/resource-pack concept
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46 - [x] Load from directory
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47 - [x] Load from zip
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48 - [x] Load from exe-embeded
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49 - [x] Mesh/material files (glTF, but incomplete, not all features supported)
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50 - [x] Image files (BMP RGBA)
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51 - [x] Audio files (AU)
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52 - [x] API to transform/recalculate mesh data
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54 Other (required for alpha release):
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55 - [x] Config files ala \*.ini files (use std/parsecfg)
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56 - [x] Mouse/Keyboard input handling
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57 - [x] X11
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59 - [x] Enable/disable hardware cursor
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60 - [x] Fullscreen mode + switch between modes
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65 - [x] Windows Waveform API
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66 - [ ] Generic configuration concept (engine defaults, per-user, etc)
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67 - [ ] Input-mapping configuration
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68 - [ ] Telemetry
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69 - [x] Add simple event logging service
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70 - [ ] Add exception reporting
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72 Other important features:
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73 - [ ] Multisampling
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74 - [x] Text rendering
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75 - [ ] Animation system
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76 - [ ] Sprite system
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79 Other less features:
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80 - [ ] Viewport scaling (e.g. framebuffer resolution != window resolution)
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81 - [ ] Query and display rendering information from Vulkan?
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82 - [ ] Game controller input handling
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83 - [ ] Allow multipel Uniform blocks
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84 - [ ] Documentation
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86 Quality improvments:
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88 - [x] Better scenegraph API
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89 - [x] Better rendering pipeline API
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91 Build-system:
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92 - [x] move all of Makefile to config.nims
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95 Documentation
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96 =============
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98 Okay, here is first quick-n-dirty documentation, the only purpose to organize my thoughts a bit.
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100 Engine parts
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101 ------------
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103 Currently we have at least the following:
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105 - Rendering: rendering.nim vulkan/*
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106 - Scene graph: entity.nim
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107 - Audio: audio.nim audiotypes.nim
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108 - Input: events.nim
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109 - Settings: settings.nim
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110 - Meshes: mesh.nim
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111 - Math: math/\*
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112 - Telemetry: telemetry.nim (wip)
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113 - Resources (loading, mods): resources.nim
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115 Got you: Everything is wip, but (wip) here means work has not started yet.
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117 Handling of assets
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120 A short description how I want to handle assets.
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122 Support for file formats (super limited, no external dependencies, uses quite a bit of space, hoping for zip):
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124 - Images: BMP
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125 - Audio: AU
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126 - Mesh: glTF (\*.gld)
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128 In-memory layout of assets (everything needs to be converted to those while loading):
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130 - Images: 4 channel with each uint8 = 32 bit RGBA, little endian (R is low bits, A is high bits)
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131 - Audio: 2 Channel 16 bit signed little endian, 44100Hz
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132 - Meshes: non-interleaved, lists of values for each vertex, one list per attribute
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134 Configuration
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135 -------------
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137 Or: How to organize s\*\*t that is not code
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139 Not sure why, but this feels super important to get done right. The engine is
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140 being designed with a library-mindset, not a framework mindset. And with that,
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141 ensuring the configuration of the build, runtime and settings in general
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142 becomes a bit less straight-forward.
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144 So here is the idea: There are three to four different kinds of configurations
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145 that the engine should be able to handle:
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147 1. Build configuration: Engine version, project name, log level, etc.
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148 2. Runtime engine/project settings: Video/audio settings, telemetry, log-output, etc.
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149 3. Mods: Different sets of assets and configuration to allow easy testing of different scenarios
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150 4. Save data: Saving world state of the game
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152 Okay, let's look at each of those and how I plan to implement them:
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154 **1. Build configuration**
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157 **2. Runtime settings**
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159 This is mostly implemented already. I am using the Nim module std/parsecfg.
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160 There is also the option to watch the filesystem and update values at runtime,
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161 mostly usefull for development.
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162
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163 The engine scans all files in the settings-root directory and builds a
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164 settings tree that can be access via a setting-hierarchy like this:
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165
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166 setting("a.b.c.d.e")
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167
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168 ```a.b``` refers to the settings directory ```./a/b/``` (from the settings-root)
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169 ```c``` refers to the file ```c.ini``` inside ```./a/b/```
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170 ```d``` refers to the ini-section inside the file ```./a/b/c.ini```
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171 ```e``` refers to the key inside section ```d``` inside the file ```./a/b/c.ini```
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172
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173 ```a.b``` are optional, they just allow larger configuration trees.
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174 ```d``` is optional, if it is not give, ```e``` refers to the top-level section
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175 of the ini-file.
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176
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177 **3. Mods**
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178
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179 A mod is just a collection of resources for a game. Can maybe switched from
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180 inside a game. Current mod can be defined via "2. Runtime settings"
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181
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182 I want to support mods from:
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183
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184 a) a directory on the filesystem
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185 b) a zip-file on the filesystem
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186 c) a zip-file that is embeded in the executable
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187
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188 The reasoning is simple: a) is helpfull for development, testing of
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189 new/replaced assets, b) is the default deployment with mod-support and c) is
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190 deployment without mod-support, demo-versions and similar.
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191
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192 Should not be that difficult but give us everything we ever need in terms of
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193 resource packaging.
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194
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195 **4. Save data**
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196
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197 Not too much thought here yet. Maybe we can use Nim's std/marshal module. It
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198 produces JSON from nim objects. Pretty dope, but maybe pretty slow. However, we
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199 are indie-JSON here, not 10M of GTA Online JSON:
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200 https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/