paperboard/laygl

OpenGL for the layman.

Layman OpenGL (laygl)

A simple 3D engine for the layman.

Currently implemented

• Creating a window and renderer with a modern OpenGL context.
• High resolution clock for elapsed-time calculation.
• Physically Based Rendering (metallic/roughness workflow).
• Support glTF 2.0 file format.
• Materials.
• Normal maps.
• Anti-aliasing (MSAA 8x multi-sampling).
• Back-face culling optimization.
• Mipmapping / anisotropic filtering.
• Wireframe mode.
• Directional and point lights.

Short term

• Image Based Lighting (IBL).
• Flat terrain.

Long term

• Transparency
• Fog
• Third person camera with tilt-pan-zoom offsets.
• Skeletal animation
• Multi-texturing
• Terrain collision
• Texture atlases
• GUI
• Day/night cycle
• Cell shading
• Font rendering
• Distance field text rendering
• Particle effects
• Instanced rendering
• Procedural terrain
• Shadow mapping
• Percentage closer filtering
• Post-processing effects
• Gaussian Blur
• Multisampled FBOs
• Bloom effect
• Multiple render targets
• Geometry shaders
• Cube map reflections
• Render to cube map texture
• Lens flare
• Occlusion queries
• Water

Not clear yet

• Runtime keybinding system to map actions to GLFW key constants.
• Associating different materials to different mesh parts of a model.
• Loading materials from files.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. See the UNLICENSE file for more details.