EduEngine

A 3D Game Engine utilizing DirectX 12, PhysX SDK 5.0, and C# scripting.
This engine was developed as an educational project as part of the curriculum at ITMO University.

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Demos (click to watch)

Physics Demo	Lightings Demo

GPU Partice System	Behavior Tree Game

Split Screen Game	Engine Overview

Quick Start

• Submodule Initialization
• Building From Source
• Running Demo Projects

You can use EduEngineLauncher to open and create projects

Core Features

Rendering

• Flexible management of D3D12 resources, similar to DiligentEngine
• Abstraction of the DirectX 12 Graphics API for high-level modules
• Deferred rendering
• Directional Cascaded Shadow Maps
• Percentage-Closer Filtering (PCF)
• Phong lighting (directional, point, and spotlight)
• Skybox with specular reflections
• Tone mapping
• Ray picking
• Multiple camera rendering
• GPU-based particle system
• Async Compute particle system
• Particle system with screen-space collision
• Material system
• Async rendering of Editor and Runtime
• More on Wiki

Physics

• Abstraction of the PhysX SDK for high-level modules
• Static and dynamic rigidbodies
• Box, sphere, and capsule colliders
• Box, sphere, and capsule triggers
• Collision and trigger events
• Physics materials
• More on Wiki

C# Scripts

• GameObject and component system
• Fields can be marked as editable in the editor (similar to SerializeField in Unity)
• Color, Range, and other attributes
• Asset references can be assigned from the editor
• Keyboard and mouse input API
• IColliderCallback interface
• Custom in-game UI
• Extensive API for modifying parameters of built-in components such as Renderer, Rigidbody, Light, and others
• Support for any .NET libraries in scripts
• More on Wiki - C# Scripts Feature

Asset Manager

• Support for script, texture, mesh, material, and scene assets
• Generate Meta files with GUIDs for all assets
• Uses FileSystemWatcher for automatic asset resolution
• Allows renaming and moving assets without breaking scene and material references
• More on Wiki

Editor

• Utilizes docked IMGUI.NET and IMGUIZMO.NET libraries
• Displays all project assets
• Texture and mesh previews in the editor
• Material editor
• Drag-and-drop functionality in the hierarchy window to change parent objects
• Add and remove custom scripts to/from GameObjects
• Editor and Play modes
• Includes an EDU_NO_EDITOR flag to enable running the engine without loading editor resources
• More on Wiki