roadmap

Kohi Engine Roadmap

The items in this list are not in any particular order. This list will be updated occasionally as development progresses.

Engine general:

• mobile runtime support (android, IOS)
• (SIMD)
• dynamic arrays (marked as TODO because I want to revisit)
• queue, pool, bst
• logger (Multi-threading, channels)
• particles
• input (mobile)
• input (gamepad support)
• string library (kstring structure)
• pool allocator
• binary file format for textures (with converter)
• resource hot reload
• ECS
• prefabs
• Raycasting
• Object Picking (1/2 done)
• Gizmos (might fall under UI?)
• AUDIO
• PHYSICS
• networking?
• profiling
• proper editor and 'runtime' binaries (alongside testbed)
  • world editor
  • UI editor
  • editor logic library (dll/.so) hot reload
• timeline system
• skeletal animation system
• skysphere (i.e dynamic day/night cycles)
• water plane
• volumes (precomputed visibility volume and other types of volumes like triggers for gameplay, physics volumes, weather/weather occlusion)

Renderer:

• DirectX/OpenGL/Metal? backend support
• geometry generation (2d and 3d, e.g. cube, cylinder, etc.)
• advanced materials (WIP)
• PBR
• multithreading support (Vulkan/D3D12)
• batch rendering (2d and 3d)
• shadow maps

UI: (separated section because number of controls)

• UI system
• Layering
• UI file format
• Load/Save UIs
• UI Editor
• control focus (tab order?)
• docking
• drag and drop support
• UI Controls (one of the few engine-level areas that uses OOP):
  • Base control - all controls come from this
  • panel
  • image box
  • viewport control (world/scenes will be switched to use these as render targets)
  • rich text control (system text w/ multicolour, bold/italic, etc. and bitmap text with multicolour only)
  • button
  • checkbox
  • radio buttons
  • tabs
  • windows/modals (complete with resize, min/max/restore, open/close, etc.)
  • resizable multi-panels
  • scrollbar
  • scroll container
  • textbox/textarea
  • in-game debug console

Other items:

• Documentation

Done/Implemented Features

• clock
• event system
• platform layer
• cross-platform (desktop, Windows/Linux/macOS)
• testing framework
• math library (vector math, etc)
• hashtable
• freelists, plus use of them in buffers
• input (desktop)
• linear allocator
• dynamic allocator (variable-size allocations)
• resource system
  • loaders: binary, text, image, material, bitmap font, system font, scene
• renderer front/backend architecture scaffolding
• Vulkan backend support
• textures
• geometry
• materials
• Phong lighting model
• Spec maps
• normal maps
• official mac support
• job system
• threads
• skybox
• renderable texture support
• multiple renderpass support
• configurable renderpasses (and framebuffers/use renderable textures)
• UI Controls (in progress):
  • text control (system and bitmap font)
• Auto-Generated code documentation.
  • Requires that entire codebase be gone over and commented.
• in-game object unloading (meshes, etc.)
• systems manager (plus 'system' interface which all systems should match)
• Scene/Level
  • File format/load/save
• keymaps/keybindings
• kvars (configurable 'global' settings)
• console/console consumer
• console commands
• application configuration
• terrain
• containers
  • stack
  • hashtable
  • freelist
  • dynamic arrays
  • ring