newleaf

C++ game engine for 3d and 2d development

Engine Features

• Scene manager: entity component system oriented. Loading scenes and entity prototypes from json
• Render manager: openGL 4.6 api abstraction. Model, texture and cubemaps loading capabilities. FBO
• Window manager: glfw abstraction
• Event-driven (mouse/keyboard/window/application)
• Settings manager: customizable engine defined settings
• Debugger layer: logger, metrics and an assets/entities/scene/states/settings inspector
• Assets manager: caching and hot reloading of prefabs, shaders, textures, models and scenes
• States manager: state machine with layers and overlays
• Perspective camera
• Model, texture and cubemaps loading capabilities

How to use the engine in a personal project

• Use the engine as a library (shared or static)

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(
    newleaf
    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/kafkaphoenix/newleaf.git
    GIT_TAG        v0.1.0
)

FetchContent_GetProperties(newleaf)
if(NOT newleaf_POPULATED)
  FetchContent_Populate(newleaf)
  set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ${BUILD_SHARED_LIBS} CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE)
  add_subdirectory(${newleaf_SOURCE_DIR} ${newleaf_BINARY_DIR})
endif()

Demos

• Engine use cases can be found in the newleaf demos repository

Planned features

• User defined settings
• Shader compilation
• Render commands batching
• Expand camera class supporting more modes
• Serialization
• Per module tests using catch2
• Profiler
• Font rendering
• Audio
• Physics
• Networking
• Vulkan support
• Engine wiki documentation
• Editor Mode
• Multi window/overlay
• Scripting language
• Multiplatform
• Multithreading

Third party libraries

• glfw: openGL application development framework
• glad: openGL loader
• EnTT: entity component system
• stb: image loading
• glm: math operations
• imGui: ui framework
• nlohmann_json: json processing
• assimp: model loading
• spdlog: structured logging
• Catch2: unit testing