APOCALYX Game Engine

OpenGL and GLSL support.

The engine is based on OpenGL. The renderer uses some common OpenGL extensions to improve the rendering speed. The OpenGL Shading language (GLSL) is fully supported. Almost every kind of object that appears on the scene can be rendered with vertex and fragment programs or the more advanced vertex and fragment shaders. Thanks to OpenAL, spatialized 3D sound is supported. The engine adds the capability to select the sounds that need to be played according to their loudness and distance from the listener. OpenAL supports also the functions to perform sound capture.

Plenty of features.

The engine includes features such as the rendering of sky boxes, cloud layers, lens flares, flat terrains with and height fields even with reflections, infinite terrains, wavy surfaces, sprites, billboards, 3D meshes with diffuse, gloss, environment and bump mapping, particles emitters, planar shadows, the loading of 3DS and OBJ meshes, the animation of MD2, MD3, MS3D and Cal3D models and the loading of BSP levels with collision detection and lightmaps. Then playback of MIDI, OggVorbis and MP3 soundtracks, 3D sound, capture of sound samples, management of compressed data and a particle-based physics engine suitable for the simulation of flags, cloths and articulated, soft or rigid bodies.

Fully scriptable.

The engine also includes and provides easy access to libraries such as the ODE physics engine, the ColDet Collision Detector, the LUA scripting language to describe and control the scenes without any recompilation, the Tiny C compiler for fast compilation of C code, the time-critical code and the C Scripting Language, the AngelScript Language and the SMALL language for fine control of bots' AI. Then, to help the development of interesting AI, the engine also uses the A* path finding algorithms, steering behaviors and a library to define and control finite state machines. Finally, to layout the graphical user interface, the engine includes the AntTweakBar library and the GLGooey library.