Mechtatel (ru: Мечтатель en: Dreamer)
Мечтай до тех пор, пока не узнаешь, что давно пора повзрослеть и бросить эту фигню.
This project aims to create a Vulkan-based game engine in Java with help of LWJGL. It's still far from what you call a game engine, but I'll keep on developing little by little in my free time. Leave a star in this repo if you like it!
Unfortunately, there are no elaborate documents for this project so far. However, you could check out the test code and hopefully get to learn what Mechtatel has to offer!
Note that this project is currently under development and is subject to drastic change.
It's been years since I came up with an idea like "Isn't it great if I could create a game engine and build my own game upon it?" If you just want to create a game, then you should take advantage of the great game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine. As for me, I simply love to write code, and want to develop a game starting from the lowest level possible.
Mechtatel is a word that means "Dreamer" in Russian. It's by far the best word to describe me, only dreaming and being far from any achivements. God knows if I could complete this work by the time you'd think I'm no more...
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.dabasan</groupId>
<artifactId>mechtatel-core</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-alpha4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.dabasan</groupId>
<artifactId>mechtatel-logging</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-alpha4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>Snapshot builds are available in the Maven Snapshot Repository.
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.dabasan</groupId>
<artifactId>mechtatel-core</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.dabasan</groupId>
<artifactId>mechtatel-logging</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>Use of mechtatel-logging module is optional.
It provides minimal logging functionality with Logback, which prints out logs above the INFO level to stdout.
You can overwrite it or use another logging implementation at your discretion.
- Investigate the methods to reproduce water surface
- Implement functionality to simulate sea waves
- Implement it in another module or as an add-on
- Design and implement API that can be invoked from external applications
- Establish connection between Mechtatel (server) and client app
- Build client app in any language (Go, Rust, etc.)
Released v0.0.1-alpha4.
Released v0.0.1-alpha3.
Implemented tracking camera to provide third-person view for the target character.
v0.0.1-alpha0 fails to start because it fails to load native libraries and shaders from inside a JAR.
Currently working on a fix and refactoring of that issue.
Released v0.0.1-alpha1.
Removed app info from settings and changed it to constant values.
Updated the versions of the dependencies.
Released the first non-snapshot version 0.0.1-alpha0 of the Mechtatel engine.
Fixed a bug that the control of frames per second doesn't work properly.
Previous implementation sees a lower frames per second and laggy rendering because of improper update of the lastTime variable.
Fixed a bug that the shader for texture operations ignored factors given as a parameter.
Added test code to play sound files.
Texture operations can now take up to 8 textures. Merge-by-depth operation has been removed.
Implemented headless mode, that is, rendering without a window. This feature will enable you to run a GPU instance on a cloud service and obtain rendering results from the Mechtatel engine, although it is yet to be tested on a cloud service.
Implemented Gaussian blur as a full-screen effect. Full-screen effects are intended to be applied after post-processing stages. Post-processing shaders consume images other than color (such as depth and position), whereas full-screen effect shaders consume only a color image.