Well Engine

A general-purpose D3D11-based game engine written in C++. Initially developed as a group project by six students for Lurks Below.

Usage

Shouldn't require any prerequisites. Only supported platform is Windows.

• Download the repository and open "WellEngine.sln" in Visual Studio (tested with 2022).
• Ensure "Application" is the selected startup project.
• The preferred build mode is usually Release. Select Debug if using breakpoints. Select Deploy to build the game with all editor functionality stripped away.

Functionality

Entities, Behaviours & Systems

• Entities & behaviours similar to Unity's GameObjects & Components
• Systems for scene independent singleton-like scripts

Scenes

• Quad-tree based frustum culling
• Serialization
• Prefabs

Dev Tools

• Transformation controls
• Entity/Behaviour creation & manipulation
• Debug shape drawing
• Runtime resource loading & shader compilation
• Full Tracy support

Multi-pass Rendering

• Shadowmapping
• Metallic reflections
• Environment maps
• Tiled forward rendering
  • Transparency pass
• Post-processing
  • Volumetric fog
  • Bloom
  • Depth of Field

Libraries

• Dear Imgui for UI
• ImPlot for prettier plotting UI
• ImGuizmo for transformation tools
• Jolt Physics for collision & physics
• SDL3 for window handling
• Tracy for frame capture
• DirectXTex for texture loading, manipulation & block compression
• stb for texture loading