jesseguerrero / graphicsplayground

A simple OpenGL-based graphics engine

GraphicsPlayground

Overview

This is a simple graphics engine that I created in order to dive into Engine/Graphics programming.
At the moment it serves as a great base for learning and experimenting with shaders and simple engine concepts.

The goal is to extend this into a feature-complete graphics engine, including an editor and the basic tools needed to create a game.

Platforms

• Windows
• OS X

Only 64-bit targets are supported.

Dependencies

The following libraries are used (and are already included):

• GLFW is used for managing the running windows.
• OpenGL (4.1) is the main graphics API.
• GLM is used as the base mathematics library (will be replaced in the future).
• The project uses the Premake (v5.0.0-beta2) build system.

Precompiled Premake binaries for Windows and OS X are also included.

A Python script is used to interact with Premake and therefore must be present in your system.
If you want to avoid installing it, you can manually run premake and build the project (see generate_project.py).

Build

1. Download/Clone the code/repository.
2. Open a terminal and change the working directory to the project root.
3. Execute the project generation python script: python ./generate_project.py

Incoming Features

• Textures (diffuse, normals, etc.) [not fully implemented]
• Shadows
• Cubemaps
• Model Loading
• Deferred Rendering
• PBR
• Text Rendering
• Vulkan support
• Raytracing
• Editor (ImGui)

License

The MIT License (MIT)