SWAN

WARNING

SWAN is still in a very early stage of development.
It lacks many of the core elements needed to make it a game engine (Physics, support for skinned meshes, etc.).
If you decide to use this project, be ready for lots of missing features, low framerates and weird, nonsensical behaviour.

SWAN: Something We All Need

SWAN aspires to be a game engine that enables developers to create simple games quickly and efficiently.

SWAN is programmed in C++.

It currently features:

• A basic OpenGL renderer
• A primitive GUI system
• A Wavefront OBJ mesh importer

The project relies on several other libraries:

Library	Purpose	Link
SDL2	Input, window management and GL context control	SDL homepage
OpenAL	Audio	OpenAL homepage
FreeALUT	OpenAL utilities	FreeALUT Github page
GLAD	Loading GL functions	GLAD Github page
STB Image	Image loading	STB Github page

Future plans:

• Scripting with Lua
• Support for earlier versions of OpenGL (GL 2.0 and 1.0)
• A basic physics system

Compilation instructions

To compile SWAN and its demos, you will need a few tools:

• CMake
• A compiler with support for the C++14 standard

After you have obtained said tools, do the following:

1. Create a "build" directory so as to keep the main directory clean
   mkdir build (works in both Bash and Windows CMD)

2. Go into that directory
   cd build

3. Run CMake with the main directory as the argument
   cmake ../

4. Run whatever commands are necessary to build the project
   e.g. make for Linux or mingw32-make.exe for MinGW on Windows