Garden is an open source, cross platform game engine designed for efficiency and flexibility. Written in modern C++ and utilizing the Vulkan API for rendering, it is aimed at providing developers with a robust toolset for creating high-performance, visually stunning games. The main features of the engine include extensible architecture, built-in editor, convenient creation of rendering pipelines using a custom shader language (GSL), and automatic placement of memory barriers, which are necessary in recent graphics APIs.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility
- Entity Component System (ECS)
- Built-in Editor (ImGui)
- Deferred Rendering (G-Buffer)
- Physically Based Rendering (PBR)
- Image-Based Lighting (IBL)
- Gamma Correction (HDR)
- Tone Mapping (ACES, Uchimura)
- Automatic Exposure (AE)
- Light Bloom (Glow)
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
- Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)
- Cascade Shadow Mapping (CSM)
- Skybox Rendering (Cubemap)
- Perspective / Orthographic Camera
- Infinite far plane (Reverse Z-Buffer)
- Frustum Culling (AABB)
- Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH)
- Opaque / Translucent / Cutoff Shaders
- Vulkan API 1.3 backend
- Multithreaded Rendering
- Automatic Memory Barriers
- Bindless Descriptors
- Custom Shader Language (GSL)
- Easy To Use Rendering Pipelines
- Linear Resource Pool
- Built-in Thread Pool (Tasks)
- Settings / Logging System
- Scene Serialization / Deserialization
- First Person View (FPV)
- .web / .png / .jpg / .exr / .hdr Support
- glTF Model And Scene Loader
- Config File Reader / Writer
- Resource Pack Reader / Writer
- Equi To Cube Map Converter
- Procedural Atmosphere (Sky)
- Screen Space Reflections (SSR)
- Motion Blur
- Forward Rendering
- Vignette Post-Process
- Depth Of Field (DOF)
- Physical Based Camera
- Screen Space Shadows (SSS)
- Froxel Culled Lights
- GPU Occlusion Culling
- Chromatic Abberation
- Lens Flare / Glare
- Color Grading (ACES)
- Lens Distortion
- God Rays
- Volumetric Smoke / Clouds
- Soft / Point Shadows
- Translucent Shadow Maps
- Vulkan Memory Aliasing
- Particles / Trails
- 2D Tile Maps (9-sliced)
- Nvidia DLSS Support
- Nvidia Reflex Support
- AMD FSR Support
- Physics Support (Jolt)
- Hardware Ray-Tracing
- Ray-Traced Shadows
- HDR Monitor Support
- Virtual Reality Support
- Consoles Support
- Mobiles Support
- Windows (10/11)
- Ubuntu (22.04 LTS)
- macOS (Monterey 12)
This list includes only those systems on which functionality testing is conducted. However, you can also compile it under any other Linux distribution or operating system.
- Nvidia Maxwell microarchitecture and newer
- AMD GCN microarchitecture and newer
- Intel Gen9 microarchitecture and newer
- Apple M1 processor and newer (partial support)
- C++17 compiler
- Git 2.30+
- CMake 3.22+
- Vulkan SDK 1.3+
- OpenSSL 3.0+
- X11 (Linux only)
Use building instructions to install all required tools and libraries.
| Name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| GARDEN_BUILD_GSLC | Build GSL shader compiler | ON |
| GARDEN_BUILD_EQUI2CUBE | Build equirectangular to cubemap converter | ON |
| GARDEN_RELEASE_EDITOR | Build Garden editor in the release build | OFF |
| GARDEN_RELEASE_DEBUGGING | Build Garden debugging code in the release build | OFF |
| Name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| GARDEN_APP_NAME | Garden application name | GardenApp |
| GARDEN_APP_NAME_LOWERCASE | Garden application lowercase name | gardenapp |
| GARDEN_APP_VERSION_MAJOR | Garden application major version | 1 |
| GARDEN_APP_VERSION_MINOR | Garden application minor version | 0 |
| GARDEN_APP_VERSION_PATCH | Garden application patch version | 0 |
| GARDEN_APP_RESOURCES_DIR | Garden application resources directory | garden/resources |
| GARDEN_APP_CACHES_DIR | Garden application caches directory | garden/.caches |
Documentation with all GLSL changes is located here. You can install Visual Studio Code extension to highlight GSL code.
- cgltf (MIT license)
- Conf (Apache-2.0 license)
- ECSM (Apache-2.0 license)
- FastNoise2 (MIT license)
- FreeType (FreeType license)
- GLFW (Zlib license)
- Imath (BSD-3-Clause license)
- ImGui (MIT license)
- Logy (Apache-2.0 license)
- Math (Apache-2.0 license)
- Nets (Apache-2.0 license)
- OpenEXR (BSD-3-Clause license)
- Pack (Apache-2.0 license)
- stb (MIT license)
- VMA (MIT license)
- Voxy (Apache-2.0 license)
- WebP (BSD-3-Clause license)
- xxHash (BSD-2-Clause license)
- Vulkan (Apache-2.0 license)