caniouff / rbfx

Game engine with extensive C# support and WYSIWYG editor.

rbfx is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

This project is a fork of urho3d.github.io.

License

Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.

Features overview

• Multiple rendering API support
  • Direct3D9
  • Direct3D11
  • OpenGL 2.0 or 3.2
  • OpenGL ES 2.0 or 3.0
  • WebGL
• HLSL or GLSL shaders + caching of HLSL bytecode
• Configurable rendering pipeline with default implementations of
  • Forward
  • Light pre-pass
  • Deferred
• Component based scene model
• Skeletal (with hardware skinning), vertex morph and node animation
• Automatic instancing on SM3 capable hardware
• Point, spot and directional lights
• Shadow mapping for all light types
  • Cascaded shadow maps for directional lights
  • Normal offset adjustment in addition to depth bias
• Particle rendering
• Geomipmapped terrain
• Static and skinned decals
• Auxiliary view rendering (reflections etc.)
• Geometry, material & animation LOD
• Software rasterized occlusion culling
• Post-processing
• HDR rendering and PBR rendering
• 2D sprites and particles that integrate into the 3D scene
• Task-based multithreading
• Hierarchical performance profiler
• Scene and object load/save in binary, XML and JSON formats
• Keyframe animation of object attributes
• Background loading of resources
• Keyboard, mouse, joystick and touch input (if available)
• Cross-platform support using SDL 2.0
• Physics using Bullet
• 2D physics using Box2D
• Scripting using C#
• Networking using SLikeNet + possibility to make HTTP requests
• Pathfinding and crowd simulation using Recast/Detour
• Inverse kinematics
• Image loading using stb_image + DDS / KTX / PVR compressed texture support + WEBP image format support
• 2D and “3D” audio playback, Ogg Vorbis support using stb_vorbis + WAV format support
• TrueType font rendering using FreeType
• Unicode string support
• Inbuilt UI, localization
• WYSIWYG scene editor and UI-layout editor implemented with undo & redo capabilities and hot code reload
• Model/scene/animation/material import from formats supported by Open Asset Import Library
• Alternative model/animation import from OGRE mesh.xml and skeleton.xml files
• Supported IDEs: Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, CodeBlocks, CodeLite, QtCreator, CLion
• Supported compiler toolchains: MSVC, GCC, Clang, MinGW, and their cross-compiling derivatives
• Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit build
• Build as single external library (can be linked against statically or dynamically)
• ImGui integration used in tools

Screenshots

Dependencies

rbfx uses the following third-party libraries:

• Box2D 2.3.2 WIP (http://box2d.org)
• Bullet 2.86.1 (http://www.bulletphysics.org)
• Civetweb 1.7 (https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb)
• FreeType 2.8 (https://www.freetype.org)
• GLEW 1.13.0 (http://glew.sourceforge.net)
• SLikeNet (https://github.com/SLikeSoft/SLikeNet)
• libcpuid 0.4.0+ (https://github.com/anrieff/libcpuid)
• LZ4 1.7.5 (https://github.com/lz4/lz4)
• MojoShader (https://icculus.org/mojoshader)
• Open Asset Import Library 4.1.0 (http://assimp.sourceforge.net)
• pugixml 1.9 (http://pugixml.org)
• rapidjson 1.1.0 (https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson)
• Recast/Detour (https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation)
• SDL 2.0.7 (https://www.libsdl.org)
• StanHull (https://codesuppository.blogspot.com/2006/03/john-ratcliffs-code-suppository-blog.html)
• stb_image 2.18 (https://nothings.org)
• stb_image_write 1.08 (https://nothings.org)
• stb_rect_pack 0.11 (https://nothings.org)
• stb_textedit 1.9 (https://nothings.org)
• stb_truetype 1.15 (https://nothings.org)
• stb_vorbis 1.13b (https://nothings.org)
• WebP (https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp)
• imgui 1.70 (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/docking)
• tracy (https://bitbucket.org/wolfpld/tracy/)
• nativefiledialog (https://github.com/mlabbe/nativefiledialog)
• IconFontCppHeaders (https://github.com/juliettef/IconFontCppHeaders)
• ImGuizmo 1.61 (https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/ImGuizmo)
• cr (https://github.com/fungos/cr)
• crunch (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/crunch/)
• CLI11 v1.5.1 (https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/)
• fmt 4.1.0 (http://fmtlib.net)
• spdlog 1.3.1 (https://github.com/gabime/spdlog)
• EASTL 3.13.04 (https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL/)
• SWIG 4.0 (http://swig.org/)

rbfx optionally uses the following external third-party libraries:

• Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/)

Supported Platforms

Graphics API/Platform	Windows	Linux	MacOS	iOS	Android	Web
D3D9 / D3D11	✔
OpenGL 2 / 3.1	✔	✔	✔
OpenGL ES 2 / 3				✔	✔
WebGL						✔