🌀 MiniEngine — Lightweight OpenGL Game Engine (Stopped)

MiniEngine is a minimal yet modular OpenGL-based game engine sandbox, written in modern C++.
Its purpose is to provide a clean, extensible foundation for learning real-time rendering, camera control, input systems, and general 3D engine architecture.

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🧩 Dependencies

• C++17 or later
• OpenGL 3.3+
• GLFW (window/input handling)
• GLAD (OpenGL function loader)
• GLM (math)
• CMake 3.14+

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⚙️ Build Instructions

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ParsaFaghani/Game-Engine.git
cd MiniEngine
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
./MiniEngine

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🛠️ TODO (Development Roadmap)

🎮 Core Engine

• Refactor input system into event-based callbacks
• Add customizable input mapping / keybinding
• Abstract rendering into a Renderer class
• Add frame timing & FPS counter
• Support multiple camera types (FPS, orbit, free-fly)

🔦 Rendering

• Add directional lighting (Phong shading)(simple)
• Point and spot light support
• Normal mapping and specular highlights
• Skybox with cubemap shaders
• Post-processing effects (bloom, fog, grayscale, etc.)
• Shadow mapping (depth maps)

🎨 Assets / Scene

• Load OBJ/GLTF models
• Add basic material system
• Texture support (diffuse / normal / specular)
• Add scene graph / transform hierarchy

🧠 Systems

• Node-based system
• Physics: basic AABB collisions
• Add scripting hooks (e.g., Lua or C++ callbacks)
• Simple animation system

🧪 Tooling

• In-game debug UI (using ImGui)
• Hot-reloading shaders
• Mouse picking / raycasting
• Simple editor for placing Nodes

🐧 Platform / Build

• cross-platform(Linux and windows tested)

This project is currently on hold.