Sentinel C++14 Game Engine

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📰 Description:

Sentinel is a C++14 based game engine, with DirectX 11 currently as it's primary rendering API. Stemmed from the understandings and short comings of my previous work Ghost Engine, this engine is more focused on establishing a good architecture, proper editor-to-runtime pipeline, ease of use, and ultimately to develop the engine into something which can be used to actually make and ship small games instead of being another non-functional portfolio project/ defunct project.

Sentinel follows the Orthodox C++, or C-flavored C++ paradigm, where not a lot of modern C++ features are used, in order to make code as easy and straightforward to understand as possible.

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🗒️ Features:

Application	Graphics
Python + Premake build system setup Terminal logging, with printf-style formatting Multi-cast Event system Input polling Platform Agnostic Input codes SIMD/custom Math operations Basic ECS support using flecs Scene serialization/deserialization Archive I/O support File I/O and Filesystem operations	Context and Swapchain creation Buffers (Vertex, Index, Constant) Shaders Textures Vertex Layouts using reflection Render-Textures and Depth-Textures Framebuffers General-purpose in-world camera
Editor	Ongoing
Custom title-bar window ImGui Dockspace ImGui Viewport Scene Hierarchy Panel Device Information	Development of scene rendering Archive-based data loading pipeline Resource loading from custom binary files More ECS components

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🎞️ Screenshots:

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🔖 Prerequisites:

🖥️Hardware

Operating System	Windows 10 or Windows 11
Graphics Support	DirectX 11 (Feature support 11_0 or above)

💿Software

Visual Studio 2022 or 2019	Download Link	Install Desktop Development with C++ workload option
Python 3.3 or higher	Download Link	Install requests package from pip

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⬇️ Cloning:

1. Execute following git command in CLI to a local destination:

   git clone https://github.com/CybernetHacker14/Sentinel.git

2. In the cloned folder, execute following git command in CLI:

   git submodule update --init

• Alternatively, execute following git command in CLI to a local destination:

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/CybernetHacker14/Sentinel.git

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➕ Project Creation:

• For Windows: Execute the Setup.bat file present in the Scripts folder and follow instructions. This will create a new Visual Studio solution in the outermost directory.

⚠️   Currently, only Premake option works. CMake build scripts aren't updated for latest changes

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📝 Tech Stack:

Supported OS	Supported IDEs	Languages Used
Windows 10 Windows 11	Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2022	C++14 (Engine + Editor) HLSL (Shader language) Lua (Premake) CMake Python (Setup)
External Libraries
glfw/GLFW	USCiLab/cereal	SanderMertens/flecs
ocornut/imgui	zlib-ng/minizip-ng	nothings/stb_image
Tessil/sparse-map	g-truc/glm