Spartan is a research-focused game engine designed for real-time solutions, providing a dynamic experience. Not intended for game development yet, it serves as a valuable study resource due to its clean, modern, and high-quality architecture.
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For occasional updates regarding the project's development, you can follow me on twitter.
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For questions, suggestions, help and any kind of general discussion join the discord server.
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For issues and anything directly related to the project, feel free to open an issue.
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Adhering to the MIT license is appreciated. This means that you can copy all the code you want as long as you include a copy of the original license.
Status
Livestreams
Occasional livestreams on Discord for interesting topics.
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Features (v0.31)
- 10+ font file formats support (FreeType)
- 20+ audio file formats support (FMOD)
- 30+ image file formats support (FreeImage)
- 40+ model file formats support (Assimp)
- Vulkan and DirectX 11 backends (same HLSL shaders compile everywhere)
- Deferred rendering with transparency (under a single render path and using the same shaders)
- Principled BSDF supporting anisotropic, clearcoat and cloth materials (combined with things like normal mapping, parallax, masking, occlusion etc)
- Bloom (Based on a study of Resident Evil 2's RE Engine)
- Volumetric lighting
- Depth of Field
- Lights with physical units (lux for directional, candelas for point and spot lights)
- Shadows with penumbra and colored translucency (Cascaded and omnidirectional shadow mapping with Vogel filtering)
- SSGI (Screen space global illumination, an extension of SSAO)
- SSR (Screen space reflections)
- SSS (Screen space shadows)
- TAA (Temporal anti-aliasing)
- Physically based camera (Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO)
- Depth of field (controlled by the aperture of the camera)
- Motion blur (controlled by the shutter speed of the camera)
- Real-time shader editor
- On the fly mip generation on the GPU, using a single dispatch.
- Font rendering
- Frustum culling
- Physics (Rigid bodies, Constraints, Colliders)
- Entity-component system
- Event system
- Mouse & keyboard input as well as controller support (tested with a PS5 controller)
- Debug rendering (Transform gizmo, scene grid, bounding boxes, colliders, raycasts, g-buffer visualization etc)
- Thread pool
- Engine rendered platform agnostic editor
- Profiling (CPU & GPU)
- Support for XML files
- Easy to build (Single click project generation which includes editor and runtime)
- AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening
- AMD FidelityFX Single Pass Downsampler
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2
- AMD Compressonator for texture compression
Roadmap
Short-term
- Some bug fixing so we are stable again.
- Switch to bindless.
- Outperform D3D11.
- Deprecate D3D11.
- Continue work on D3D12 (on going and non blocking since Vulkan is there).
- Create a startup/default world which is closer to a playable demo.
Long-term
- Skeletal Animation.
- Atmospheric Scattering.
- Eye Adaptation.
- Subsurface scattering.
- Ray traced reflections.
- Ray traced shadows.
- Dynamic resolution scaling.
- Export on Windows.
- UI components.
- Improve editor looks.
- Scripting.
- Linux port.
Wiki
Don't forget that there is a wiki that can help answer some of your questions. Here are some of it's contents: