OpenGL Engine

Overview:
This engine is an ECS game engine written in C++ using OpenGL. I started working on this project late into my senior year, as a sort of personal capstone project for myself. I wanted to take what I had been learning about in school and on my own time, and apply it to something that would prove to myself (and potential employers) that I had the programming chops to work in a low level environment and build up the tools that I needed to make my own game. It also proved a good experience to practice modern C++ and teach myself more low level physics and linear algebra concepts.

My Role:
This project was entirely created by me. I’ve personally created every piece of it, with inspiration taken from various reference materials and tutorials which can be found on the GitHub page.

Link to GitHub Repository.

Lessons Learned:
This list will be updated as I continue to work on the project, so this list while be perpetually behind what I have finished.

1. Modern C++:

   1. The whole smart pointer family

   2. STL library functions

   3. Variadic templates and parameters

   4. Move constructors

   5. typeid and reflection

   6. std::chrono

2. OpenGL/Graphics

   1. GLFW + GLAD

   2. glm

   3. Shaders vert/frag

   4. Textures

   5. Graphics matrices and transformations

   6. Camera control and movements

3. Physics

   1. Forces, acceleration, velocity calculation, trade offs between the

   2. Damping, friction, drag, gravity

   3. Importance of a fixed timestep for physics calculations (and the annoyance of floating point imprecision)