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+# BansheeEngine
+
+A free & modern multi-platform game development toolkit. It aims to provide simple yet powerful environment for creating games and other graphical applications. A wide range of features are offered, ranging from a math and utility library, to DirectX 11 and OpenGL render systems all the way to asset processing, fully featured editor and C# scripting.
+
+## Download
+
+Along with the source you will need these dependencies (Extract to the same folder as the source code):
+[Download dependencies] (http://nolinkyet)
+
+Or download the combined package:
+[Download source + dependencies] (http://nolinkyet)
+
+## Features (currently available)
+
+* Design
+  * Built using C++11 and modern design principles
+  * Clean layered design
+  * Fully documented
+  * Modular & plugin based
+  * Multiplatform ready
+* Renderer
+  * DX9, DX11 and OpenGL 4.3 render systems
+  * Multi-threaded rendering
+  * Flexible material system
+    * Easy to control and set up
+    * Shader parsing for HLSL9, HLSL11 and GLSL
+* Asset pipeline
+  * Easy to use
+  * Asynchronous resource loading
+  * Extensible importer system
+  * Available importer plugins for:
+    * FXB,OBJ, DAE meshes
+    * PNG, PSD, BMP, JPG, ... images
+    * OTF, TTF fonts
+    * HLSL9, HLSL11, GLSL shaders
+Powerful GUI system
+  * Unicode text rendering and input
+  * Easy to use layout based system
+  * Most common GUI controls
+  * Fully skinnable
+  * Automatch batching
+  * Support for texture atlases
+  * Localization
+* Other
+  * CPU & GPU profiler
+  * Virtual input
+  * Advanced RTTI system
+  * Automatic object serialization/deserialization
+  * Debug drawing
+  * Utility library
+    * Math, file system, events, thread pool, task scheduler, logging, memory allocators and more
+    
+## Features (upcoming)
+
+ * C# scripting support (in development, coming soon)
+ * Multi-purpose and extensible editor (in development, coming soon)
+ * High quality renderer
+ * Physics system integration
+ * Audio system integration
+ * Video system integration
+ * Networking system integration
+ * Animation
+ * GUI animation
+
+## Development state
+
+Project is currently in active development. Current version is considered a preview version. Bugs are to be expected and new features will be added as development progresses.
+
+## Jump in
+
+Easiest way to get started with Banshee is to check out `ExampleProject` included with the source code. However to give you a taste here are a few code snippets.
+
+### Starting a minimal application
+```
+	RENDER_WINDOW_DESC renderWindowDesc;
+	renderWindowDesc.videoMode = VideoMode(1280, 720);
+	renderWindowDesc.title = "My App";
+	renderWindowDesc.fullscreen = false;
+	
+	Application::startUp(renderWindowDesc, RenderSystemPlugin::DX11);
+	Application::instance().runMainLoop();
+	Application::shutDown();
+```
+
+### Importing resources
+```
+  HMesh dragonModel = static_resource_cast<Mesh>(Importer::instance().import("Dragon.fbx"));
+  HTexture dragonTexture = static_resource_cast<Texture>(Importer::instance().import("Dragon.psd"));
+```
+
+### Adding and positioning a camera
+```
+  HSceneObject sceneCameraSO = SceneObject::create("SceneCamera");
+  HCamera sceneCamera = sceneCameraSO->addComponent<Camera>(window);
+
+	sceneCameraSO->setPosition(Vector3(40.0f, 30.0f, 230.0f));
+	sceneCameraSO->lookAt(Vector3(0, 0, 0));
+```
+
+### Adding an object for rendering
+```
+  HSceneObject dragonSO = SceneObject::create("Dragon");
+  
+	HRenderable renderable = dragonSO->addComponent<Renderable>();
+	renderable->setMesh(dragonModel);
+	renderable->setMaterial(dragonMaterial);
+```
+
+### Adding GUI
+```
+  HSceneObject guiSO = SceneObject::create("GUI");
+  HCamera guiCamera = guiSO->addComponent<Camera>(window);
+  
+  HGUIWidget gui = guiSO->addComponent<GUIWidget>(guiCamera->getViewport().get());
+  GUIArea* guiArea = GUIArea::createStretchedXY(*gui, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+  guiArea->getLayout().addElement(GUIButton::create(HString(L"Click me!")));
+  guiArea->getLayout().addElement(GUIButton::create(HString(L"Click me too!")));
+```
+
+# License
+
+Banshee is offered completely free for personal or commercial use. Only requirement is that you include Banshee Logo in your application when using any part of Banshee. Read `BansheeLicense.rtf` included with the project for more details. 
+
+# Author
+
+Banshee is developed by Marko Pintera. I created and built the entire project from my bedroom in my free time out of personal interest in game engine development, never having had the chance to do it professionally. 
+
+I appreciate any feedback at [email protected] (antispam: flip gmail/com).