Wendy

"What's your name?" he asked.
"Wendy Moira Angela Darling," she replied with some satisfaction.

Introduction

Welcome to the project page of the Wendy engine. The Wendy engine is a C++ library that provides facilities useful for the production of demos and small games.

Platforms

These are the systems that are verified to have successfully built the Wendy engine at some point:

Linux ( ppc, x86 )
Mac OS X ( ppc )
Windows ( x86 )

Note however that it's primarily being developed on Linux x86, and so may sometimes not compile on other platforms. If you find this to be the case, feel free to complain.

Dependencies

The Wendy engine uses the following libraries:

Features

Including features implemented by Moira

Supports 1D, 2D and rectangular textures
Demo system with effect factories, effect hierarchy and keyable parameters
Multi-texture, multi-pass, multi-technique render style system
Render styles choose the most appropriate technique at runtime
Fixed function and shader passes, techniques and styles can be mixed and matched
Lighting system with automatic shader permutation generation and fixed function fallback
Stencil shadow volume generation from any closed two-manifold triangle mesh
Extensible scene graph with many node types provided
All data formats except textures and shaders are human-readable XML
Texture based proportional font text renderer
Flexible user interface system with many widgets provided
Type safe, reference counted generic resource system with search paths and codecs
Resource loading cascade; every resource loads its dependencies
Render operation queue with material and depth (for translucent styles) sorting
Extensible particle system with emitters, affectors and fully overridable rendering
Key frame animation support with quaternions and Bézier splines
Simple terrain rendering system (expect improvements here)
Canvases (render targets) with screen and texture targets
Geometry buffers with flexible format descriptors
Generic I/O streams with file, memory and TCP targets
TCP client and server connection factories
Lots of useful helper classes

Download

The Wendy engine resides in a publicly readable monotone repository on mtn.elmindreda.org, in the branch org.elmindreda.wendy.

License

The Wendy engine is under the zlib/libpng license.

FAQ

Why would I want to use this engine instead of Ogre?

Uhm, no idea. Because Wendy is slower but can do less?

Why are you making it then?

Because it's the most fun you can have without putting a needle in your arm.

Also to serve as as a basis for demos and games, and many sceners still think using someone else's engine is cheating.

It's also the best way of making sure you really understand things.

Finally, it helps me to get interesting jobs.

Documentation

See the reference manual, generated by Doxygen.