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Intrinsic: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Vulkan Game Engine

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66 pointsJarlakxen19 comments

A game engine is mostly tools, foundations (containers, serialisation), gameplay frameworks (entities, components, AI). This is not a game engine by my definition if it's marketed as "Vulkan only". Also, I have the feeling that every game should look different and have its own art direction, being able to switch the whole rendering pipeline is essential. Why not contribute to bgfx[1] really? It's a "Graphics API", not a "game engine"...

[1] https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

Cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a-ZEjYA...

also https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic

Linux section says it's coming soon.

Android says almost the same in even less certain terms.

OSX not even mentioned.

VS based builds.

Is this really cross platform?

> OSX not even mentioned.

That's because OSX does not support Vulkan.

But yeah, I hate it when projects claim to be cross-platform but what they really mean is "hope to be cross platform one day"

> OSX does not support Vulkan

https://moltengl.com/

So the right way to say it would be "Apple does not support Vulkan".

Is it really accurate to describe this as a "Vulkan implementation", or would it instead be considered a "Vulkan wrapper/translation layer"? It appears to be the latter:

MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on Apple's Metal graphics framework.

Just having taken a very quick look through the source, you should not really be doing individual memory allocations per-resource.

Is Visual Studio truly a requirement? If so, no thanks.

Isn't VS the way to go for building the Windows version for many projects? Are there ways around it?

Because it says 'Cross-Platform' and is anything but with that requirement.

It says it is early and linux support is coming soon. It is open source, so you can help speed up the linux support.

Most games developers won't touch GPL3, why not LGPL? Also should games engines really have *Player.cpp/.h files?

From the home page:

OPEN SOURCE Intrinsic is available to the public domain under the GPL v3. If you’re interested in licensing Intrinsic for your commercial or closed-source project (without the restricitions of the GPL), just contact me.

that's... a weird usage of the words "public domain"

also for some reason Qt is listed as a "proprietary" dependency in the readme

Further, linking PhysX to GPL3 is not possible.

I agree, I think there's some confusion as to what "public domain" means in this context. This project is open source software, but not public domain software.

That's maybe because, since he's also selling commercial license, Qt must be paid for(Qt is only LGPL/GPL for OSS). Some people refer to anything not "completely" free to use, as proprietary.

It funny because his software would be "proprietary" in case that's what he actually meant.

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