Чифир Engine

This is my new game engine. The main reason for this is that the renderer in the last one wasn't designed well from the start, and other elements such as the build system became cumbersome. In this new engine, I'm hoping to avoid this.

Information

I'm doing my best to document how I'm designing things in design/. The renderer is going to be designed around a render hardware interface, with more complex render passes on top of that, instead of implementing a fixed function pipeline in each graphics API like before. Another notable feature of this iteration is that it uses DLLs for each system, and the reason is so that the systems of the engine could be reused by tools that I might make, and also because it makes it easier to separate functionality that shouldn't get tangled up.

The engine doesn't use the CRT or STL at all (where possible, meaning not at all on Windows and barely on Linux/Switch), which does improve portability, especially between Windows versions. Some performance-critical functions are written to use SIMD if the current CPU supports it (on x86, it's all dynamically enabled based on cpuid instead of being done at compile time). I also wrote my own allocator that works pretty well, but I think there are still issues with its bookkeeping, and I'm sure I'll have to optimize it eventually.

Build requirements

For Windows, you need Visual Studio or Clang. You also (will, in the future) need the GDK to build the x64 version. For Xbox 360, you need the SDK, it's on Internet Archive. For Switch, you need version 15.3.2 of the SDK (also on Internet Archive), the private repo, and my private fork of xmake. For Linux, you need Clang and glibc (other libcs might work, but this is untested).

There are Rust bindings in progress, you need the nightly toolchain.

Build instructions

You'll need xmake. First, you should copy config.default.lua to config.lua, and change any important stuff. Then, just run xmake config -m debug, followed by xmake build.

For the Rust stuff, build the engine, then do cargo build.

Supported platforms

	Windows AMD64	Windows x86	Windows ARM64	Xbox 360	Nintendo Switch	Linux
Clang	yes	yes	no	no	yes	kinda
MSVC	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no