Elysian Shadows

Thinking about starting a little project. I have been working on all the components of this individually and think its time to put it together.
Basic premise goes something like this.

You have a core engine that does no game logic, just give you services like graphics, audio, and so on. Then you have two building blocks to use to make game content.
1. a scripting language that has access to all the core engine components, 2. you can compile ddl's that the engine will load. (you can load the DLLs from a script as well)
(You can use either independently, but they are meant to compliment each other. )

here is a pic.



What I have so far.

• Scripting (AngelScript)
  Audio (OpenAL)
  Physics (Bullet)
  DLL Loading

If anyone would like to help, I need help with the graphics and IO.

I'll publish a link to the code soon.

Is it meant for 2D or 3D graphics, or both?
What kind of I/O do you mean? Asset loading?

I could probably help with both.

2D and 3D, although I dont care to much for 3D.

I mean IO as in peripherals, but yeah, asset loading would be awesome too.

avansc wrote:2D and 3D, although I dont care to much for 3D.

I mean IO as in peripherals, but yeah, asset loading would be awesome too.

I don't know how much help I'd be for programming peripherals, but I could definitely help with the graphics and asset loading. I've got a decent bit of experience with both OpenGL and Direct3D, though I haven't used D3D10/11 in practice.

I am interested in knowing what kind of interfaces from the core engine are exposed to your DLL versus what is exposed to AngelScript.

Falco Girgis wrote:I am interested in knowing what kind of interfaces from the core engine are exposed to your DLL versus what is exposed to AngelScript.

Well potentially anything can be exposed. However there are things id recommend doing from within a DLL and things to do from the script. For example, even though you could render something from within the script, its not recommended I spose, rather put it on a render queue.

To be honest I dont know exactly what all the do's and dont's are, but I spose I'll pick them up as I play around.