Planned Features

The following features are presented alphabetically. This list is not exhaustive, if you would like to work with our team on a bug fix or feature contact us via the gitter team chat.

Audio

• OpenAL support
• Script controls
  • Play/Pause/Stop
  • Volume
  • Loop
• File formats?

Animation

• Script controls
  • Play/Pause/Reset
  • Jump to frame

Graphic Enhancements

• Transparent Objects - #81
• Shadow maps - #82
  • Cached shadow maps
  • Cascaded shadow maps
• 2D Pipeline
• Interchangeable pipelines
  • Physically based rendering
  • Forward rendering
• Draw immediate
• Environment probes

Particles

We have no current plans to integrate a particle system, but it is something we would like to look into.

Platforms (Mac, Android, iOS)

We would love to have Dash compile on as many platforms as possible. There are different challenges to overcome for the D language regarding platform support, but one option in the meantime would be to use a library like Marmalade and write D bindings.

Physics

Our team has previous experience with Bullet Physics, but have no current plans to bind the Bullet library to D. Once Bullet works in D we would like to use it in the engine.

Scripting

Dash should support "any" scripting language for game development via an interface to interact with the engine. Currently you write scripts in D, but Python and Javascript are good candidates for support.

UI

Dash uses Awesomium currently, but we are switching to Chromium Embedded Framework in order to have an entirely open-source engine.

• In-engine text debugging
  • Text displays relative to objects in 3D space