Scape Engine

Features

• Modular architecture
  • Composed of several base libraries and optional modules. Base libraries have interdependencies, modules do not.
  • Can be compiled to DLLs or as one big EXE

• High portability
  • Written completely in ISO C++
  • Platform specific code hidden beneath abstract interfaces
  • Runs on
    • Linux (32 and 64 bit)
    • Windows (XP and Vista)
    • Mac OS X (Intel)
    • Xbox (using OpenXDK)
  • Compiles without warnings using
    • MSVC (with highest warning level and disabled compiler extensions)
    • gcc (with options "-Wall -Wextra -pedantic -ansi")
    • MinGW
    • Intel C compiler
    • Clang

• Reflection for all game engine components
  • Supports scripting using an interface very close to the C++ API
    • Lua interface
    • Python interface
  • Used by GUI library to display and edit game object properties
  • Enables automatic serialization

• Supports OpenGL 1.2
  • Uses extensions for newer API additions
  • Can use assembly, GLSL and Cg shaders, with custom vertex attributes and geometry shaders
  • Vertex Buffer Object (VBO) and Frame Buffer Object (FBO) support, with fallback if extensions not available
  • Supports volume textures, compressed textures, dynamic textures, depth textures, procedural textures, floating point textures, cubemaps, anisotropic filtering
  • Instancing

• Fast submission-based renderer
  • Capable of flexible multi-pass rendering
  • No scene-graph dependency as in many other 3D engines
  • Automatic state sorting
  • Can be replaced by software rasterizer or even a raytracer

• Wide range of supported file formats
  • Bitmap formats: BMP, DDS, GIF, JPG, PNG, PSD, TGA
  • 3D formats: 3DS, DOF, Doom3 Mesh, LWO, LWS, MD2, MD3, MDL, OBJ
  • Archive formats: BOD, PAK, SYN, WAD, ZIP
  • Flexible asset management

• Optionally utilizes a wide range of open source tools and libraries
  • blendscape Blender exporter, which uses the built-in Python interface
  • Can directly read Maya ASCII files, no Maya installation required
  • Bullet Physics support
  • Cal3D animation support
  • Cg for API-independent shader development
  • OpenAL for audio
  • libMPEG2 for video playback
  • TinyXml XML parser
  • zlib compression