3DCast

A 3D Rendering Engine supporting both rasterization and raytracing.

⚠️ This project is heavily under construction!

Features (by now)

• Scene management
• Entity Component system
• Rasterizer Viewport
• Skyboxes with environment light calculation
• Different Light types
• PBR Materials
• SSAO
• Cascading Shadow Map
• Loading and Transforming of Models
• Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux)
• Editor themes
• Editable Keymap
• Debug Console and diagnostics
• Endless orientation grid (it's endless)
• Different Components for complex entities
• Dynamic gizmos for translation, scaling, and rotating

Under the Hood

• Graphics API abstraction
• Massively scalable Memory manager
• Fused deferred and forward shading

Insights

Switch the mood with one click and automatically calculate the environment lighting based on provided skyboxes.

See the difference when applying effects like ambient occlusion and cascaded shadow mapping.

Submenus providing customizability.

Building the Project

Prerequisites

• CMake 3.14 or higher
• C++17 compatible compiler
• Git for cloning the repository

Build Instructions

Using the Build Scripts

Windows:

# Clone the repository with submodules
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/3DCast_Linux.git --recursive
cd 3DCast_Linux

# Run build script
install.bat

Linux:

# Clone the repository with submodules
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/3DCast_Linux.git --recursive
cd 3DCast_Linux

# For X11 (default)
./install.sh

# For Wayland
./install.sh --wayland

Manual Build

# Clone the repository with submodules
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/3DCast_Linux.git --recursive
cd 3DCast_Linux

# Build project
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release --parallel

Directory Structure

3DCast_Linux/
├── 3DCast/            # Core engine library
├── 3DCast_Runtime/    # Application entry point
├── GLWrapper/         # OpenGL abstraction layer
├── Dependencies/      # Third-party libraries
├── resources/         # Assets and resources
├── CMakeLists.txt     # Main CMake configuration
├── install.bat        # Windows build script
└── install.sh         # Linux build script

Running the Application

After building, the executable will be located in:

• Windows: build/bin/Release/3DCast.exe
• Linux: build/bin/Release/3DCast

Asset Files are copied automatically when using the install scripts. Alternatively copy the folder 3DCast/resources and 3DCast_Runtime/imgui.ini into the executables folder.