[DRAFT]Rewriting the engine in C++ #7
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Not using Monogame anymore, switching to C++ DX11/DirectXTK
Made Shader,VertexBuffer, ShaderInputLayout and ResourceCreationException classes. Made Vector4 and Vertex[type]Declaration structs All that code was written in 1 go and it worked for the first time. lmao I'm still amazed
--> I continued to make the code more modular --> Implemented IObject and Camera TODO: --> Implement shader parameters
It looks so broken GAH
Now to fix the axis model...
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I tested the physics engine initialization under a separate VS2022 project. I fixed some strange issue with vertices seeming to be skewed to the side because of a erroneous calculation inside I attempted implementing mesh picking without success. |
Including spritebatch, constexpr math API, grid setting, serialization and deserialization for I/O and more stuff I don't remember.,
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SpriteBatch is almost finished, I just need to fix the rotation affine transformation. (I'm not including Font in this list). Fonts currently have a major memory bug involving reading the glyps from FreeType. I have added support for source rectangles (i.e custom UV coordinates) so it is possible to only render a part of a image. I didn't test that feature, but it will be used when I add the translation/rotation/scale buttons. |
- AssetReference was renamed to AssetID. - AssetID is just a templated struct that contains a unsigned integer, so an untyped ID is a plain integer. - Asset base type for classes that can be loaded using ContentManager::Load<T>. - Removed Asset<T> and IAsset. This was necessary, because the types of content being loaded were not identifiable during deserialization.
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Project files are in a JSON format. Compiled projects will be generated using a compiler (i.e MSVC), so they won't be used in final projects. |
Stuff being done is too small to explain imo
I've also attempted to use precompiled headers, but I've failed.
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Need to use font atlases and a preallocated vertex buffer for the SpriteBatch implementation. |
- Fix loading assets at opening project - Some nullchecks - Simplified AssetType registration - Work on integrating TextPrint object
Also added Texture2D::Texture2D(GraphicsDevice*, std::filesystem::path const &) overload to replace string and wstring overloads.
Kinda works, but all asset previews are broken and save a plain coloured image.
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CMake building works with VS2022 on Windows 10. Post build processes are broken at the moment. |
Fixed by writing an optimisation in SpriteBatch to not create new VertexBuffers in each Draw() update, but to modify an existing Vertex Buffer with an initial capacity of 1024 and a growth factor of 2. Fixed VertexBuffer usage variable not being used in the ctor. Thus also fixing ::SetData() throwing exceptions. Finally, also fixed the post build process.
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Currently using a naive font atlas implementation, see results in the picture below: |
Visual Studio doesn't seem to define NDEBUG when switching to Release-x64, this is so fcking stupid. I'm beginning to hate VS2022. May want to try CLion again.
Rewriting the engine in C++ could allow more control and performance compared to the old Monogame releases. Monogame has limited 3D rendering capabilities, namely the assimp implementation allows a maxiumum of 72 bones, BasicEffect (Blinn-Phong with limited control over the variables), broken UVW mapping, and some cross compatibility issues.
I do realise this will take months, but I think it is worth it.
Currently, it is being written using plain Winapi32 and DirectX11 (native windows technologies, duh). Future implementation could use NVRHI and a cross platform GUI library.
Tasks are placed in the order they are finished.
Complete tasks
Tasks that are currently being worked on
TO DO Tasks
Tasks list taken from: https://github.com/orgs/3DRadSpace/projects/10