Tesseract-Engine

A 3D Game Engine for Small to Medium-sized Games

Tesseract-Engine is a lightweight and powerful game engine designed for developers working on small to medium-sized projects. With a simple and visually appealing interface, it offers a LUA scripting environment and is built in C++ for optimal performance.

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Features

• User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies the game development process.
• Lua Scripting Support: Integrates Lua for customizable and flexible scripting.
• Engine Tools: Includes utilities like a profiler and playback system.
• High Compatibility: Supports various asset formats, including OBJ files and dynamic textures.

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Tools and Libraries Used

• ImGui: For UI creation.
• GCML: General C Macros Library
• DLL-Extractor: For managing and extracting DLL dependencies.

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Development History

Note: Screenshots are sorted by version.

Version 0.0.131

Updates:

• Added Guizmos
• Added Mesh Visualisers
• Added Global Settings
• Lua Changes
  • Added Intelisence Headers for Engine and KeyCodes
  • Changed Lua require to not need a path
• Added Culling
• Fixed GLCalls Count
• Removed Unused Code (TestMesh.cpp)

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Version 0.0.102

Updates:

• Added More Themes
• Added Engine.KeyDown()
• Added KeyCode "Returns a Bool if the key is down"
  • local KeyCode = require("keycode")
  • KeyCode:Space
  • KeyCode:A
• Fixed Primary Camera on Load
• Remade Transform Inspector
• Remade Camera Inspector
• Remade Play/Pause Button
• Added -DTIMERS to include more Profiler Timers (May slow down Engine)
• Remade Mesh Componenet Inspector to be cleaner

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Version 0.0.93

Updates:

• Added support for OBJ Files with MTL Textures
• Optimised OBJ Importer
• Added Engine.Expose("var name", <local var>)
  • This Exposes a variable to the editor GUI
• Made the LUA Engine be a require("engine")
• Remade Profiler to be more readable

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Version 0.0.76

Updates:

• Engine Profiler: Visualize frame resource usage for optimization.
• Playback System: Start and pause gameplay with automatic scene saving and restoration.
• Lua Math Library: Includes math.lua for advanced calculations.

  local Math = require("math")
  

• Temporary File Access: Added C++ function to create temporary files.

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Version 0.0.68

Updates:

• Script Component: Enhanced Lua scripting integration.
• Lua Editor (WIP): A basic Lua script editor.
• Lua Binding: API for interfacing Lua with the engine.

  Engine.GetGameObjectByTag("")
  Component::GetComponent("")
  Engine.Log("")
  Transform:SetPosition(vec3)
  Transform:SetRotation(vec3)
  

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Version 0.0.50

Updates:

• Texture Preview: Automatic texture and model loading.

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Version 0.0.45

Updates:

• OBJ File Support: Added compatibility for OBJ asset files.

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Version 0.0.37

Updates:

• Dynamic Texture Support: Enhanced texture management and rendering.

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Version 0.0.33

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Version 0.0.23

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Version 0.0.15

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