Bak3D Engine v1.2 - Particle System Update

This new update comes with a range of new updates, but the most important one being a whole new particle system!

New features:

• Application FPS metrics have been added to the Metrics Window
• Particle structure and Particle System Object
• New Texture2D class used by all objects
• Customized model and texture importing
• Model selection Menu
• Bounding Box for particle system debugging
• New Particle System Properties Menu (velocity, scale, lifetime, color, rotation, texture, and more)
• Randomization toggles and offset slides for some particle system properties (velocity, scale, color, rotation)
• Particle Instancing Optimization technique and a new particle instance data payload that stores attribute information per instance
• Background color is now tunable in the Environment Settings window

Enhancements:

• New object menu to select between models and particle systems
• Model Texture Breakdown window is now included in the Object Settings window
• Light Menu is now integrated into the Environment Settings Window

Bugfixes:

• Retarget Project Architecture to Windows SDK version to 10.0.20348.0
• Fix Model loading issues for custom models

Instructions on how to run:

• Extract zipped folder
• Navigate to folder and verify directories "assets", "shaders" and "particles" (within assets) are there
• Run the 3D Model Viewer application

I hope you enjoy this new update and if there are any bugs, do not hesitate to make an issue on!

Bak3D_Engine_v1.1

Main and first release of the Bak3D Engine.