BansheeEngine/Documentation/GitHub/features.md

Features

All features listed here are the ones currently available (implemented). If you are interested in what's coming up in the near future check out our roadmap.

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Core

• Quality design
  • Modern code using C++14
  • 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
  • Powerful material system
  • BansheeFX language for material definitions
  • Shader parsing for HLSL9, HLSL11 and GLSL
• Asset pipeline
  • Asynchronous resource loading
  • Extensible importer system
  • Available importer plugins for:
  • FBX, OBJ, DAE meshes
  • PNG, PSD, BMP, JPG, etc. images
  • OTF, TTF fonts
  • OGG, FLAC, WAV, MP3 sounds
  • 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 for fast rendering
  • Supports texture atlases
  • Supports arbitrary 3D transformations
  • Localization support (string tables)
• Input
  • Mouse/keyboard/gamepad support
  • Provides both raw and OS input
  • Virtual input with built-in key mapping
  • Virtual axes for analog input devices
• Physics
  • Implemented using NVIDIA PhysX
  • Multi-threaded for best performance
  • Abstract plugin interface extensible for other physics implementations (e.g. Havok, Bullet)
  • Supported features
  • Colliders (Box, Sphere, Capsule, Mesh)
  • Triggers
  • Rigidbody
  • Character controller
  • Joints (Fixed, Distance, Hinge, Spherical, Slider, D6)
  • Scene queries
  • Collision filtering
  • Discrete or continuous collision detection
• Scripting
  • C# 6.0
  • Separate high level engine API
  • Integrated runtime for maximum performance
  • Full access to .NET framework
  • Integration with Visual Studio
  • Automatic serialization
  • Works with custom components, resources or arbitrary types
  • Save/load data with no additional code
  • Handles complex types (e.g. array, list, dictionary) and references
  • Fast and small memory footprint
• Audio
  • 3D sounds (panning, attenuation, doppler effect) and 2D sounds (music, narration)
  • On-the-fly streaming and decompression
  • Multi-channel support up to 7.1 sound
  • Multiple listener support for split-screen
  • Multiple backends
  • OpenAL
  • FMOD
  • Extensible to others
• Other
  • CPU & GPU profiler
  • Advanced run-time type information for C++ code
  • Iterate over class fields, safely cast objects, clone objects, detect base types
  • Find references to specific objects (e.g. all resources used in a scene)
  • Serialize/deserialize with no additional code and with automatic versioning
  • Generate diffs
  • Utility library
  • Math
  • File system
  • Events
  • Thread pool
  • Task scheduler
  • Logging
  • Debug drawing
  • Crash reporting
  • Unit testing
  • Custom memory allocators

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Editor

• Asset management
  • Simple drag and drop import for many popular formats
  • Automatic reimport of externally modified assets (e.g. modify a shader, see changes in editor right away)
  • Asset modifications immediately reflected in-game (resource hot-swap)
  • Version control friendly format
• Powerful object inspector
  • Exposes script object properties for artists/designers
  • Automatically generated GUI for custom classes
  • Customize visible elements via attributes or create GUI manually
• Level creation
  • Simple drag and drop interface
  • Traditional set of tools (Move/Scale/Rotate/Select, etc.)
  • Interface for creating custom 2D and 3D tools
• Prefab system
  • Save parts or entire levels as prefabs so they may be re-used later
  • Separate larger levels into smaller prefabs for easier loading
  • Reduce conflicts when multiple people are working on the same level
  • Customize individual prefab instances without breaking the prefab link
  • Supports nesting and complex hierarchies to ensure maintaining complex levels is easy
• Play in editor
  • Compile all scripts within editor
  • Scripts and data transparently reloaded after compilation so changes may be tested immediately
  • Pause and frame-step to better test and debug your game
  • Analyze and modify scene while playing
• Fully extensible
  • Specialized scripting API only for editor extensions
  • Easy to use without needing to know about engine internals
  • Extend almost anything. Create:
  • Custom editor windows
  • Custom object inspectors
  • Custom 2D/3D tools
  • Code for automating common tasks
• Game publishing
  • Build a game ready for distribution from within the editor
  • One click build process, just choose a platform and build
  • Automatically detects only the required resources to minimize build size
  • Automatically packages and outputs an executable
• Customizable frontend
  • Dockable layout and floating windows
  • Custom GUI skin & localization support