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SpaRcle Engine Roadmap

Engine
  • ECS and scenes
    • EntityRef
  • Resource management
    • Assets
    • Resource hot-reloading
    • Asset libraries
    • Delayed resource loading
  • Asset importing
    • Textures (PNG, JPG)
    • 3D Models (OBJ, FBX, BLEND)
    • Audio (WAV, OGG, MP3)
    • Fonts (TTF)
  • Codegen and reflection system
  • Loading screen
Editor
  • ImGUI editor (placeholder)
  • Project creation
  • Build exporting (planned)
  • Use own UI-system for editor
  • Animations editor
Scripting
  • Serialization
  • C++ Engine API
  • C++ Dynamic linking
  • C++ Static linking (in progress)
  • C++ Plugins
  • C++ Scripts compiler standardization (have problems with abi compatibility)
  • Blueprints or own scripting language (not planned in near future)
Render

  • Graphics API

    • Vulkan
    • OpenGL
    • WebGL (planned)
    • DirectX (not planned in near future)
    • Metal (not planned in near future)

  • Animations

    • Skeletal animations
    • Animation blending (need to optimize)
    • Keyframe animations

  • Shaders

    • SpaRcle Shader Language (SRSL)
    • Preprocessor and includes
    • Vertex, Fragment, Compute shaders
    • Shader hot-reloading and caching
    • SSBO support
    • Normal mapping
    • Tessellation and Geometry shaders

  • UI

    • Text rendering
      • TTF fonts and colored emojis
      • Advanced text rendering (formatting)
    • Sprite slicing
    • Windows/Widgets
      • Layout system
      • Buttons
      • Input fields
      • Sliders
      • Checkboxes
      • Scroll areas
      • Docking

  • Features

    • Skybox
    • Custom render pipeline and custom passess
    • Post-processing
    • MSAA
    • Multi-cameras rendering
    • Bufferization
    • Frustum culling
    • Particle system (planned)
    • Bloom
    • SSAO
    • SSR
    • PBR
    • Batched rendering
    • Graphics settings
    • Multithreading rendering
    • Light system
      • Cascaded shadow maps
      • Directional lights
      • Point lights
      • Spot lights
      • Area lights
      • Light probes
Physics
  • Basic collision detection
  • Rigid bodies
  • Physics materials
  • Physics debugging visualization
  • Soft bodies
  • Vehicles
  • Joints
  • Cloth simulation
  • Raycasting
  • Multithreading support
Audio
  • OpenAL backend
  • Audio sources
  • Audio listener
  • Audio streaming
  • Audio effects (reverb, echo, etc.)
  • 3D audio occlusion
  • EFX support
Platforms
  • Windows 10/11
  • Linux
    • GLFW (unstable)
    • X11 (unstable)
    • Wayland (planned)
    • Flatpak (planned)
  • Android
    • VR Meta Quest (planned)
  • Web (planned)
  • iOS (not planned in near future)
  • MacOS (not planned in near future)
  • Consoles (not planned in near future)

Our current active areas of development

  • Work on standardizing graphic settings
  • Linux wayland support
  • On UI system