What is MARS?

MARS is a C++, Open Source, 3D Game Engine in development. Started this project roughly 4 years ago when I was still learning C++; however I abandoned the project because of life situations. Well, it's almost 4 years later and I cloned the old repo and made this new one because why not. I think it'd be to work on again and see how much better I've gotten over the years.

Feel free to follow along or make pull requests. This isn't a serious project, just something to fool around with.

The idea for MARS originally came about when I wanted to create something unique and challenging. A Game Engine seemed like a huge task and a large challenge which added to the the enjoyment of working on it.

Planned Features

• Completely abstracted Rendering API with the ability to hotswap the renderer you are using with a simple console command.
• Easy to extand gameplay framework
• Commplete scripting language to allow easy gameplay scripting
• AI Suite
• Complete Entity Component System
• Networking Layer
• Robust logging system
• Custom data types (Array, Map, Vector, etc) (in-progress)
• • Stack
• • Array
• • Map
• • String
• • Vector
• • Tuple
• Custom Platform Layer to allow the engine to run anywhere
• Robust event system
• Built in input polling/buffer
• MARS Tool Framework -- A suite of tools designed to make working with MARS easy. (Class Tool, Project Setup Tool, etc)
• Easy to use Editor (in-progress)
• Custom Multi-threading class to easily create mutli-threaded game code
• Level Editor
• In-Editor Visual Scripting Language for designers and artists

Supported Platforms

• Windows 10 (x64) [primary priority]
• Linux (Partial Support) [secondary priority]
• Mac OSX
• PlayStation
• Xbox

Implemented Rendering APIs

• DirectX 11
• DirectX 12
• Vulkan
• OpenGL 4.6 (In-Progress)

Getting started

Building the Project

• git clone the project.
• Run git submodule init and git submodule update
• Install Visual Studio 2019 if you haven't already
• Create a folder inside of Thirdparty called "Libs".
• Build assimp, glfw3, SDL2 and SDL2main and place their .lib files inside of the Libs folder.
• Run the GenProjectFiles.bat script.
• Run the MARS.sln.bat script
• Build the ALL_BUILD project in VS

Running the engine

• Set the MARSEditor project as the startup project
• Run the project