DIYE

DIY engine (DIYE for short) is a highly opinionated toolkit for 3D-based applications and games.

It's not meant to be a general-purpose engine, but rather a collection of mid-level abstractions that can give you a head start on your project without having to worry about the boilerplate code but still giving you the flexibility to customize it to your needs.

It's not a library so copy and paste the parts you need and modify them to your liking then throw away things you don't want. You can even copy single file or function to your project if you like (link attribution is appreciated but not required).

Roadmap

Plan for the next release:

• Half-Edge data structure with simple set of operations
• Vulkan Allocator
• RenderDoc integration
• OSX compilation without errors

Screenshots

OBJ Loader and rotation gizmo

Debug primitives renderer

ImGui integration

Animation Curve with Editor

Watch video here

Development

Make sure to go through the setup steps before starting development.

Consider installing everything to C:\\sdk.

Useful links:

• https://cmake.org/download/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vcpkg/get_started/get-started?pivots=shell-cmd
• https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Development_environment
• https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases

Add to user env PATH:

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.41.34120\bin\Hostx64\x64
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.22621.0\x64
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMake\Ninja
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMake\CMake\bin

Set CXX to:

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.41.34120\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe

Setup

Init CMake:

cmake --preset debug .

Copy assets to build directory and download modified viking model from https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Loading_models.

Dependencies

Libraries:

• Vulkan
• ImGui
• ImGuizmo
• SDL2
• SDL2_image
• GLEW
• fmt
• GLM
• TinyOBJLoader
• imdd

Stack:

• C++17
• GLSL
• CMake
• vcpkg
• ninja (optional for shader compilation)

Timeline

Releases:

• 2025.Q1: Initial release with basic rendering, UI, camera, debug primitives renderer, input and OBJ loader