BansheeEngine/Documentation/GitHub/features.md

Features

Here you will find a complete list of all currently available features. Banshee is current in development and more features are being added frequently.

Editor

• Asset management
  • Simple drag and drop import
  • Automatic reimport of externally modified assets
  • Asset modifications immediately reflected in-game
  • Version control friendly format
• Powerful object inspector
  • Automatic GUI for script objects
  • Exposes properties for artists/designers
  • Customizable per-type
• Level creation
  • Simple drag and drop interface
  • Traditional set of tools
  • Custom 2D and 3D tool support
• Prefab system
  • Pre-built templates for level design
  • Easy to create and maintain complex levels
  • Hierarchical prefabs and instance specialization
• Play in editor
  • Compile in editor
  • Immediately test changes
  • Pause and frame-step
  • Analyze and modify scene while playing
• Fully extensible
  • Easy to extend using scripting
  • Comprehensive extension scripting API
  • Extend almost anything
  • Editor windows
  • Object inspectors
  • 2D/3D tools
  • Automate common tasks
• Game publishing
  • One click build process
  • Automatically detect required resources
  • Automatically package and output an executable
• Customizable frontend
  • Dockable layout and floating windows
  • Custom skin & localization support
    

Core

• Quality design
  • Built using C++14 and modern design principles
  • Clean layered design
  • Fully documented
  • Modular & plugin based
  • Minimal third-party dependencies
  • Multiplatform ready
• Renderer
  • DX9, DX11 and OpenGL 4.3 render systems
  • Multi-threaded rendering
  • Flexible material system
  • Easy to control and set up
  • BansheeFX language for material definitions
  • Shader parsing for HLSL9, HLSL11 and GLSL
• Asset pipeline
  • Easy to use
  • Asynchronous resource loading
  • Extensible importer system
  • Available importer plugins for:
  • FBX, OBJ, DAE meshes
  • PNG, PSD, BMP, JPG, ... images
  • OTF, TTF fonts
  • HLSL9, HLSL11, GLSL shaders
• GUI system
  • Unicode text rendering and input
  • Easy to use layout based system
  • Many common GUI controls
  • Fully skinnable
  • Automatic batching
  • Support for texture atlases
  • Localization
• Scripting
  • C# 5.0
  • Separate high level engine API
  • Integrated runtime for maximum performance
  • Full access to .NET framework
  • Integration with Visual Studio
  • Automatic serialization
  • Custom components
  • Custom resources
  • No additional code
  • Handles complex types and references
• Other
  • CPU & GPU profiler
  • Virtual input
  • Advanced RTTI system
  • Native object serialization
  • Debug drawing
  • Utility library
  • Math
  • File system
  • Events
  • Thread pool
  • Task scheduler
  • Logging
  • Crash reporting
  • Memory allocators