Sycamore

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StartedFebruary 2025
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Summary

The culmination of several OpenGL projects and forays into game engine architecture, Sycamore is a 3D game library designed to allow quick, performant, and simple visuals.
The goal of the project is to create something which can ship lightweight and interactive 3D experiences to the web, which I can then use for portfolio demonstrations and elements of my personal website. I plan to use Emscripten as a build tool to compile games into web assembly.

Example

The video shown above is built from the following C++ code alone:
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include "Sycamore.h"




class TGame : public scm::TApp
{
	typedef scm::TApp Super;


public:
	TGame(const char* name, unsigned int width, unsigned int height)
		: Super(name, width, height)
	{	}
};




class TPrototypeScene : public scm::TScene
{
	typedef scm::TScene Super;


public:
	void BeginPlay() override
	{
		// Load assets
		scm::TAssetManager::Directory = "../assets/";
		auto material = scm::TAssetManager::Load<scm::TMaterial>("flat.glsl");


		// Create cube
		auto geom (scm::TAssetManager::Load<scm::TGeometry>("cube.obj"));
		auto mesh = std::make_shared<scm::TMeshComponent>(geom, material);
		cube = new scm::TMesh(mesh);


		Super::BeginPlay();
	}


	void Render() override
	{
		Renderer.Draw(*cube);
	}


	scm::TMesh* cube;
};




int main()
{
	std::cout << "Running game" << std::endl;


	TGame* game = new TGame("Hello Cube", 1920U, 1080U);
	game->UseScene<TPrototypeScene>();
	game->Start();
}