Version 0.2.0

Third official release

This is a big one! The last release was in January 2023, over 1½ years ago!

TLDR

• 2 whole new apps
  • 1200 new lines of application code
• A lot of new engine features
  • 4700 new lines of engine code

What's inside

• Engine with all the base functionalities
• GreenWorld
  • 3D Demo Nature Scene
• CellSim
  • 3D Cellular Automata System
    • Very primitive, acts as a stress test for now
• Liquefied
  • 2D Eulerian Fluid Simulation
    • Physically accurate
    • Forces: Gravity and an initial input velocity
    • Project: Calculates and applies the right amount of pressure to make the velocity field divergence-free and also enforces solid wall boundary conditions
    • Advect: Moves the quantity along the velocity field. Uses a semi-lagrangian approach utilizing Forward-Euler and Runge-Kutta 2

What's new

• A lot of bug fixes
• Improved performance
• Added several new rendering systems
  • 2D and 3D Grid-Renderer, Pixel-Renderer, improved controls and more ...
• Drastically improved texture handling
  • Separation of OpenGL-Textures and (raw) Texture-Buffers
• Dynamic texture subsampling
  • Textures can act as obstacles for the Fluid-Simulation
  • Example: An image file gets read in as a raw Texture-Buffer, dynamically subsampled and transformed in the corresponding grid cells
• Reworked and simplified interface creation for all apps
• Streamlined the interface of several key engine features like the ResourceManager and RenderManager
• Improved logging
• Updated almost all external dependencies
• Added scripts for several tasks (like building and static analysis)
• Improved CMakeLists.txt
• Added .clang-format and .clang-tidy files
• Improved use of GitHub-Workflows

Available files

SalinityGL-0.2.0.tar.xz

• Source code package for Linux. Take a look at the README for build instructions

Version 0.1.1

Second official release

What's inside

• Engine with all the base functionalities
• GreenWorld
  • 3D Demo Nature Scene

What's new

• Bug fixes
• Updated Engine-API
• Reworked the rendering system
  • There are now several renderers (for all the different tasks) that extend one base interface
  • They are getting automatically managed
• Updated some other internal components
  • Textures, Heightmap, and App-Settings
• Added a new audio backend

Available files

GameEngine-0.1.1.tar.xz

• Source code package for Linux. Take a look at the README for build instructions

Version 0.1.0

First official release

What's inside

• Engine with all the base functionalities
• GreenWorld
  • 3D-Application built with the engine

What's new

General

• Improved engine architecture and folder structure
  • Reworked several internal components
• Finished the GreenWorld-Application
• Improved build instructions
• Improved README.md (added code quality badges 😎)
• Improved CMakeLists.txt

Functionalities

• Lighting
  • Blinn-Phong
  • Shadow-Rendering
  • Normal mapping
• Water-Rendering
• Instanced-Rendering
  • Particles
    • Smoke