1. What is TDME2?

• ThreeDeeMiniEngine2 is a lightweight, multiplatform 3D engine including tools
  • Read about the philosophy if interested
  • See screenshots, if you want to quickly know where we are and where we will go :)
• TDME2 is open source
  • please check the license
  • you find the source code at https://github.com/andreasdr/tdme2
  • you find binary alpha builds at https://www.mindty.com/products/tdme2/builds/
  • here you find developer documentation including collaboration graphs and private API as well as public API for current alpha build
    • RapidJSON is included, but not yet integrated into documentation, please see http://rapidjson.org/
    • For TDME2 GUI XML documentation see README-GUI-XML.md
    • For TDME2 MiniScript documentation
      • see README-MiniScript.md
      • here you find base MiniScript documentation including collaboration graphs and API

2. Features

• Application
  • initialization
    • loads and initializes renderer backend plugin
    • creates main window and OpenGL/Vulkan context using GLFW3
  • handles HID
  • supports
    • setting window position and dimension
    • setting full screen or windowed, borderless windowed mode
    • setting application icon
    • setting mouse position and mouse cursor
    • executing other applications or background applications
    • swapping double buffered buffers (to screen) manually if required
    • checking if application is active (port-mingw, port-msc only for now)
    • setting and getting data from clipboard
    • receives and forwards file/folder drop events
    • gamepads/joysticks (WIP)
  • provides
    • a crash handler for port-msc and port-mingw which also saves backtrace to crash.log
    • application life cycle
• Math
  • Math class with common math functions
  • Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Matrix3x3, Matrix4x4 and Quaternion class
    • those have a ordinary API + operators, the latter is still a bit WIP
• 3D engine
  • model reader
    • DAE
      • node names/ids must not have whitespace characters
      • requires baked matrices
      • requires triangulated meshes for now
    • FBX via FBX SDK
    • GLTF via tinygltf
    • TDME Model file format
      • this is a much more efficient model file format for TDME
      • can also be written
      • can use external or embedded PNG and embedded BC7 textures
  • objects/entity types
    • 3d model based objects with
      • animations
        • supports model object base animation and animation overlays
        • supports animation blending
      • skinning via
        • CPU on GL2, GL3+/CORE, GLES2
        • GPU via compute shaders with GL4.3+/CORE, Vulkan, GL3+/CORE via OpenCL for MacOSX
        • which also supports several instances of the same object to reduce compute and render calls
      • both animations and skinning have some sort of configurable LOD functionality
      • texture transforms/animations
        • via texture matrices
      • supports BC7 texture compression
    • objects with support for LOD
    • imposter objects with support for LOD