Axmol Engine
A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A radical fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0)
Supported Platforms
| Build | Status (github) |
|---|---|
| Windows(win32,winuwp,win32-clang) |  |
| Android |  |
| iOS |  |
| tvOS |  |
| Linux |  |
| macOS |  |
New MediaPlayer
The new ui::MediaPlayer(renamed from ui::VideoPlayer) render video as Texture2D with designed corss-platform MediaEngine, the MediaEngine inspired from microsoft
media foundation IMFMediaEngine, the MediaPlayer support all platforms which axmol engine does.
| Target Platform | Video Compress Format | Video Pixel Format | Container Format | Backend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows Desktop | H264, HEVC, VP90 | YUY2, NV12, RGB32 | .mp4,.mkv,.webm | IMFMediaSession |
| Windows UWP | H264, HEVC, VP90 | BGR32 | .mp4,.mkv,.webm | IMFMediaEngine |
| Apple macOS | H264, HEVC(hvc1) | NV12, BGR32 | .mp4 | AVFoundation |
| Apple tvOS | H264, HEVC(hvc1) | NV12, BGR32 | .mp4 | AVFoundation |
| Apple iOS | H264, HEVC(hvc1) | NV12, BGR32 | .mp4 | AVFoundation |
| Android | H264, HEVC | NV12 | .mp4,.mkv,.webm | ExoPlayer2 |
| Linux | H264, HEVC | NV12 | .mp4,.mkv,.webm | libVLC |
Building
View the Dev setup instructions.
Highlighted Features
- Windows UWP support, refer to: #1108
- Add apple M1, android x64 support, contributed by @pietpukkel
- Improve windows workflow, support linking with engine prebuilt libs, read windows workflow guide
- Windows video player support (based on microsoft media foundation)
- Windows x64 build support
- Reimplement HttpClient based on yasio for concurrent http requests processing.
- 'Upstream-Version-License' Third-party
- Third-party license overview for easier publishing of your commercial apps based on axmol framework.
- Some links to third party libs which support axmol too.
- 'Upstream-Version-License' Extensions
- Extensions license overview for easier publishing of your commercial apps based on axmol framework.
- Spine-3.8 support
FairyGUIsupport- DragonBones support
- Live2D support
- ImGui integrated, easy to write game embedded tools, very easy to use, read ImGui for more info
- Refactor AudioEngine, OpenAL for all platforms
- OpenAL Soft, pass -DAX_USE_ALSOFT=ON to cmake to force enabling it
- OpenAL.framework, if no
AX_USE_ALSOFToption specified, cmake script will choose it on osx/ios/tvos, even though it was marked as deprecated, but still available.
- Refactor UserDefault with mio
- Modularize all optional extensions, move from engine core folder to an extensions folder
- Implement all .wav formats supported by
OpenAL Soft, such as MS-ADPCM, ADPCM, ... - Use a modern GL loader
Glad - Google angle renderer backend support
- C++ 17/20
- IOS/TVOS SDK 9.0 as minimal deployment
- Use fast pugixml
- Use curl for transferring data with URL syntax
- Use SAX parser for all plist files
- ASTC 4x4/6x6/8x8 support (if hardware decoding is not supported, then software decoding is used)
- ETC2 RGB/RGBA support (if hardware decoding is not supported, then software decoding is used)
- Supported 2D physics engines (see also APPENDIX.md):
- Box2D
- Box2D-optimized
- Chipmunk2D
- Supported 3D physics engines:
- Bullet Physics SDK
Read Full changes since cocos2d-x-4.0
Open APPENDIX.md for additional information and see Milestones for planed features too.
Reference links
- buildware, the axmol prebuilt build-bot
- Some interesting related projects based on axmol
- Axmols contributing guide
- Official Cocos2d-x
