game-engine

Project goals:

• Game engine for open world games
• Low budget in mind, design features around re-using assets and perhaps in-engine creation of them.
• Low poly.. lower than is standard nowadays.
• Requires programming skills, editor is for world editing only. not a game maker studio.
  • Engine provides the world and ways to load and render, you do the rest.

Core:

• Library system
• World is divided into cells/sectors/regions
• Cells contain cellnodes which can be anything that you can place in the game world.
• Cellnode class is meant to be extended only for engine features.
• Component system. For cellnodes is made for defining the node itself.
• Packing and loading of cells, and cellnodes.
• Terrain nodes, and multitexturing support via blendmaps.

Editor

• Editing terrain
  • Modify, Flatten, Smooth
• Texturing terrain
  • Up to 4 different textures per terrain node.
  • Edit blend map in Editor using brushes.
• Library management:
  • Creation of materials, lights.
  • Editing of material and light nodes.
  • Deleting, renaming entries.
• Cell hierarchy
  • Delete, or save to library.
  • Edit nodes.
• Placement of nodes *

*** TODO ***

Core

• Right now, maybe nothing.

Editor

• Ability to save and load cells properly, saving seems to work.
• Ability to snap camera on to node in hierarchy by double clicking.
• Inspector for editing things.
• Better functioning movement tool.
• Highlight borders of all cells.
• The UI is awful right now, have to re-design it.
• Perhaps camera position isn't the best way to decide which cell is active? Feels awkward at times.
  • have no "active" cells? add some smarts into the texture painting?. edit textures via cell hierarchy->terrain->inspect?

This read me may be edited at later date as the project progresses.