Aether3D Game Engine

Features

Platforms

• Windows (Visual Studio 2013, does not need deprecated DirectX SDK)
• Linux (Tested on Ubuntu)
• OS X
• iOS (7.0 and iPhone 5s, iPad Air or iPad mini Retina for OpenGL ES 3.0)

Rendering

• OpenGL 3.2, 4.3, ES 3.0 and D3D11
• Forward+ aka Tiled Forward shading using a compute shader.
• Physically-based lighting (Cook-Torrance shader included)
• Variance Shadow Mapping
• Bloom
• SSAO
• HDR
• Environment mapping
• Batching of 2D geometry
• Geometry instancing for depth and shadow passes.
• Render textures (2D and cube map)
• Directional, spot and point lights.
• Texture atlases
• Bitmap fonts (reads BMFont format)

Core

• Asset hot-reloading
• SIMD (SSE) math operations
• Scene graph for transform hierarchy
• Custom model format with converters included for FBX, Blender, .obj and COLLADA .dae
• Libraries used: SDL2, OpenAL, stb_image, stb_vorbis, PugiXML, DirectXTex
• Very few external dependencies
• Modern C++11 code
• Clean code, approaching zero warnings, statically analyzed.

Animation

• GPU skinning and animation
• Blend shape animation

Audio

• OpenAL-soft and stb_vorbis.
• Supported formats: .wav and .ogg.