Difference between revisions of "LambdaCubeEngine"

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Overview

LambdaCube is a Domain Specific Language for 3D graphics.

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.

Download

LambdaCube DSL repository at GitHub

History

2012-08-15 - Started development blog
2011-06-23 - The second big release which already includes a more advanced Bullet binding and the Stunts example; details in the announcement
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

Screenshots

2012-06 - LC DSL Q3 example

2012-06 - LC DSL Stunts example

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.

The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows. If Bullet is installed, the Stunts example should also be possible to get running with cabal-install.

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-== LambdaCube Engine ==
+== Overview ==
+[http://lambdacube3d.wordpress.com/ LambdaCube] is a Domain Specific Language for 3D graphics.
-=== Overview ===
+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.
-LambdaCube is a 3D rendering engine entirely written in Haskell.
+== Download ==
-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 [http://www.ogre3d.org Ogre3D]'s [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_9.html#SEC12 mesh] and [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_14.html#SEC23 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.
+[https://github.com/csabahruska/lc-dsl LambdaCube DSL repository at GitHub]
-An application building on LambdaCube is composed of the following layers:
-{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ccccff" | application
-|-
-| colspan="2" style="background: #ffffcc" | &nbsp;
-| colspan="3" align="center" style="background: #ccffcc" | optional components
-|-
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ffffcc" | generic core
-|-
-| colspan="5" align="center" style="background: #ffcccc" | render system
-|-
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | native OpenGL
-| align="center" | or
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | DirectX
-| align="center" | or
-| align="center" style="background: #cccccc" | ...
-|}
-* 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 ===
+== History ==
+* 2012-08-15 - Started development [http://lambdacube3d.wordpress.com/ blog]
+* 2011-06-23 - The second big release which already includes a more advanced Bullet binding and the Stunts example; details in the [http://just-bottom.blogspot.com/2011/06/renewed-lambdacube-bullet-bindings-and.html announcement]
 * 2009-11-18 - The first release on Hackage: [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-engine engine] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-examples examples], plus a [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lambdacube-bullet bullet example] that will eventually grow into a library
 * 2009-09-22 - The summer report was presented at the [http://ocaml.janestcapital.com/?q=node/68 JSSP meeting]
@@ Line 39: / Line 19: @@
 * 2009-01-?? - Development started
-=== Todo ===
+== Screenshots ==
+=== 2012-06 - LC DSL Q3 example ===
-* clean up code and upload it to Hackage
+[[Image:Lc-q3.png|800px|Quake3 example]]
-=== Download ===
+=== 2012-06 - LC DSL Stunts example ===
-[http://code.google.com/p/lambdacube/ LambdaCube repository at Google Code] (outdated at the moment)
+[[Image:Lc-stunts-1.png|800px|Stunts example]]
-=== Screenshots ===
+[[Image:Lc-stunts-2.png|800px|Stunts example]]
-==== 2009-11 - Hackage release ====
+=== 2009-11 - Hackage release ===
 [[Image:Lambdacube-basic.png|LambdaCube basic example]]
-==== 2009-09 - JSSP meeting ====
+=== 2009-09 - JSSP meeting ===
 Tile Racer track loader:
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 [[Image:Lambdacube-physics.png|800px|LambdaCube and Bullet physics example]]
-==== 2009-03 - Pre-summer mock-up ====
+=== 2009-03 - Pre-summer mock-up ===
 [[Image:Lambdacube1.jpeg]]
-=== Licence ===
+== Licence ==
 The code is released under BSD3.
+The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows. If Bullet is installed, the Stunts example should also be possible to get running with cabal-install.
-=== Features ===
-* [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_9.html#SEC12 Mesh file format]
-** Geometry is supported
-* [http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_14.html#SEC23 Material Script]
-=== Dependencies ===
-* Core library:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGL OpenGL] - to be dropped completely in favour of [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw OpenGLRaw]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uulib uulib] - used for parsing scripts
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alex alex] - used for parsing scripts
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fgl fgl] - scene graph handling
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zip-archive zip-archive]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hslogger hslogger]
-* Optional components:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stb-image stb-image] - image loader
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml xml] - Ogre interchange format loader
-* Examples:
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLFW GLFW]
-** [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/elerea elerea]
-** Bullet Physics binding (to appear on Hackage soon)
-The engine and the examples not using physics build out of the box on a fresh Haskell Platform install under Windows.
 [[Category:Applications]]