Originally conceived to support a wrecking-ball crane game, WreckEngine has more-or-less become an engine implementation playground. Someday that game will be the demo.

General Goals:

• Explore collision physics
• Implement/attempt to streamline interesting functionality found in other engines
• Take advantage of the modern C++ toolkit
• Learn advanced graphics programming concepts
• Make the engine simple to use and reuse

Implemented:

• Arbitrary Mesh Colliders
• Transform system with hierarchy and as-needed, on-demand computation
• Memory control using smart pointers
• Safe, low-impact CPU-side wrappers for GPU-side OpenGL constructs (gl_structs.h)
• Graphical debug primitives, using streamed buffer data and instanced rendering
• Properties (a la C#, property.h)
• Dynamic Event System
• Multithreading the various update loops
• Flexible renderer that can manage post-process chains, render groups, and full render pass chains
• Dynamic lighting, supporting deferred and forward lighting
• Hot-swappable shaders, i.e. they can be rewritten at runtime and have their changes reflected

To Be Implemented:

• Physically accurate collision resolution (in progress!!)
• Constraints
• Lua JIT scripting system, allowing for dynamic rebuilds
• Terrain system

Might Be Implemented:

• Component System?
• More advanced rendering techniques?
  • Sorting non-opaque objects to enable accurate alpha blending
  • Visibility Buffer
  • PBR
• Fluid Dynamics/Soft-body Physics?
• Scene Loader/Editor (stretch)
• Make it more cross-platform

...

• Make the wrecking-ball demo