A C++23 cross-platform game framework, with emphasis on addressing pain points in existing game engines. Notable features:

1. Fast Parallel ECS, with support for querying by base class
2. Multithreaded physics simulation
3. 3D spatial audio, including room reverbation modeling
4. Automatic memory management handled via reference counting, no garbage collector
5. GPU-driven render engine that supports modern rendering APIs (Metal, DirectX 12, Vulkan)
6. Fully-programmable GPU particle system, supporting both arbitrary meshes and billboarded sprites
7. Physically-based lighting model
8. Author shaders in vanilla GLSL
9. Declarative user interface system based on HTML and CSS
10. Support for SVGs in the UI and for textures
11. Built-in multiplayer networking system
12. FSM animation blending tree system
13. Compute shader mesh skinning with automatic batching
14. Programmable audio effect processing system
15. AR/VR support via OpenXR integration
16. CI/CD-friendly build process powered by CMake
17. Quality-of-life features like automatic incremental shader compilation
18. Integrates with GPU debugging tools (Xcode Metal Debugger, RenderDoc, PIX, NSight)

A complete list of third party technologies can be found in the deps folder.

Note: RavEngine does not have a graphical editor.

Expect bugs and frequent breaking changes. Do not use in serious projects.

Use CMake:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23)

set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})

# set output dirs
set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIGURATION>)
set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIGURATION>)

PROJECT(Example_RavEngine_Game)

add_subdirectory("RavEngine") # configure the engine library

# configure your executable like normal
file(GLOB SOURCES "src/*.cpp" "src/*.hpp" "src/*.h")
add_executable("${PROJECT_NAME}" ${SOURCES})
target_link_libraries("${PROJECT_NAME}" PUBLIC "RavEngine" )  # also adds header includes
target_compile_features("${PROJECT_NAME}" PRIVATE cxx_std_23)  # Set C++ version

# inform engine about your different assets
file(GLOB objects "objects/*.obj" "objects/*.fbx")
file(GLOB textures "textures/*")
file(GLOB shaders "shaders/*.vsh" "shaders/*.fsh" "shaders/*.csh")
file(GLOB fonts "fonts/*.ttf")
file(GLOB sounds "sounds/*.ogg")
file(GLOB uis "${sample_dir}/ui/*.rml" "${sample_dir}/uis/*.rcss")
pack_resources(TARGET "${PROJECT_NAME}" 
   OBJECTS ${objects}
   SHADERS ${shaders}
   TEXTURES ${textures}
   UIS ${uis}
   FONTS ${fonts}
   SOUNDS ${sounds}
)

# fixup macOS / iOS / tvOS bundle
if(APPLE)
INSTALL(CODE 
   "include(BundleUtilities)
   fixup_bundle(\"${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/$<CONFIGURATION>/${PROJECT_NAME}.app\" \"\" \"\")
   " 
   COMPONENT Runtime
)
endif()

Then build with CMake as normal. Other notes:

• Windows:
  • You will need to run your initial configure twice before building (known bug).
  • If on an older OS (Windows 10), you'll need to clone recursive to get an updated version of DXC.

* Simulator support is build-only. RavEngine uses GPU features that the simulator does not support.

Hardware

Note that for end users the minimum system requirements are much lower.

Software

• macOS, iOS, tvOS, visionOS
  • Xcode 16.2+
  • CMake
• Windows
  • Visual Studio 2022 or later with the "Desktop Development in C++" and "Game Development in C++" modules
  • CMake (included with Visual Studio)
  • LunarG Vulkan SDK (optional unless Vulkan support is desired)
• Android
  • Android Studio 4.2 or later with NDK 27 or later
  • Host requirements:
    • macOS host: Xcode 16.2+
    • Windows Host: Visual Studio 2022 with the "Desktop Development in C++" and "Game Development in C++" modules
    • Linux host: clang 16 or later (recommended) or gcc 13 or later
  • The SDL Android Builder wrapper project
• Web Browsers
  • Latest emsdk
  • CMake
  • Host requirements:
    • macOS: Xcode 16.2+
    • Windows: Visual Studio 2022 with the "Desktop Development in C++" and "Game Development in C++" modules
    • Linux: clang 16 or later (recommended) or gcc 13 or later
• Linux
  • ninja (recommended) or make
  • clang 16 or later (recommended) or gcc 13 or later
  • cmake
  • libatomic
  • libx11-dev
  • libwayland-dev
  • uuid-dev
  • alsa-lib-devel or pulseaudio (or another SDL3-supported audio library)
  • LunarG Vulkan SDK

View a repository with code samples here: https://github.com/RavEngine/Samples