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LambdaCube Engine

Overview

LambdaCube is a 3D rendering engine entirely written in Haskell.

The main goal of this project is to provide a modern and feature rich graphical backend for various Haskell projects, and in the long run it is intended to be a practical solution even for serious purposes. The engine uses Ogre3D's mesh and material file format, therefore it should be easy to find or create new content for it. The code sits between the low-level C API (raw OpenGL, DirectX or anything equivalent; the engine core is graphics backend agnostic) and the application, and gives the user a high-level API to work with.

An application building on LambdaCube is composed of the following layers:

application
		optional components
generic core
render system
native OpenGL	or	DirectX	or	...

optional components: e.g. loaders for various formats, physics engine
generic core: resource handling, script loading, rendering
render system: a thin abstraction layer to unify low-level APIs

News

2009-11-18 - The first release on Hackage: engine and examples, plus a bullet example that will eventually grow into a library
2009-09-22 - The summer report was presented at the JSSP meeting
2009-08-10 - Major public commit that went with the mid-summer report
2009-05-12 - Project announced to be among the JSSP winners
2009-03-31 - Application for Jane Street Summer Project sent in
2009-01-?? - Development started

Download

LambdaCube repository at Google Code

Todo

Must have:
- texture effects
- light setup
- frustum culling
- full shader support
Medium priority:
- overlay support + font rendering
- binary loader for the native Ogre format
- framework for supporting various shaders (glsl, Cg)
- rewrite to OpenGLRaw
- LOD support
Low priority:
- particle system
- shadow mapping
- skeletal animation
- volumetric clouds
- imposters
- Collada support
- terrain support (heightmap with LOD, cf. SOAR)
- mesh modelling interface
Long term:
- Quake3 map loader (BSP support)

Screenshots

2009-11 - Hackage release

2009-09 - JSSP meeting

Tile Racer track loader:

Bullet physics integration:

2009-03 - Pre-summer mock-up

Licence

The code is released under BSD3.

Features

Mesh file format
- Geometry is supported
Material Script

Dependencies

Core library:
- OpenGL - to be dropped completely in favour of OpenGLRaw
- uulib - used for parsing scripts
- alex - used for parsing scripts
- fgl - scene graph handling
- zip-archive
- hslogger
Optional components:
- stb-image - image loader
- xml - Ogre interchange format loader
Examples:

The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows.

@@ Line 42: / Line 42: @@
 [http://code.google.com/p/lambdacube/ LambdaCube repository at Google Code]
+=== Todo ===
+* Must have:
+** texture effects
+** light setup
+** frustum culling
+** full shader support
+* Medium priority:
+** overlay support + font rendering
+** binary loader for the native Ogre format
+** framework for supporting various shaders (glsl, Cg)
+** rewrite to [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw OpenGLRaw]
+** LOD support
+* Low priority:
+** particle system
+** shadow mapping
+** skeletal animation
+** volumetric clouds
+** imposters
+** Collada support
+** terrain support (heightmap with LOD, cf. [http://www.andrasbalogh.com/RangerMk2/ SOAR])
+** mesh modelling interface
+* Long term:
+** Quake3 map loader (BSP support)
 === Screenshots ===