ajmd17 / hyperion-engine

A 3D game engine written in C++ with features like PBR, Dynamic environment mapping, variance shadow mapping, procedural terrain generation, deferred rendering, and more.

Hyperion Engine

About

Hyperion Engine is a 3D game engine written in C++ - it is easy to understand and use, while still giving you ample control over the game engine.

Hyperion currently renders using OpenGL primarily, but plans are in place to add support for Vulkan as well as other rendering platforms (currently it runs on OpenGL). It is currently in the process of being ported over to Metal as well using MGL.

Feel free to contribute anything - We'd love to have some more eyes on this project! Submit an issue if you run into anything, as well.

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Building

Hyperion uses CMake to build. We have added a couple shell scripts to make the building process a bit more convenient, although there really aren't too many steps.

If it is your first time building the engine, you can run the setup.sh script from the root directory of the project. This will create the build folder, as well as copy all needed resources over from the res folder.

NOTE: Currently, assets are loaded from build/res, so if you make a change to any shaders, textures or models here, you'll have to copy them over to the root res folder before pushing a change, or else that change will not be reflected in your commit.

After that process has completed, cd into the build folder. From here, you're able to run make directly and then run the engine test with ./hyperion. We also have a build.sh script,which when ran from the root project folder, will do this whole process for you.

Really, all you need to know is:

• Run setup.sh to regenerate the makefile and copy assets from res into build/res
• Run build.sh to build the engine
• Run ./hyperion to run the engine test