RenderCore (v1.0)

A minimal 3D rendering engine built with C++ and OpenGL.

⚡ Lightweight. Modular. Educational.
This project was created to explore game-engine architecture, ECS, rendering, and real-time graphics.

📸 Preview

🎯 Project Overview

It is a small, from-scratch 3D engine built for learning purposes.
The goal is to understand how a real engine works internally — how models are loaded, how ECS is structured, how rendering pipelines work, and how lighting is implemented.

This release represents a complete, stable version of the engine, with all planned core systems implemented.

🚀 Features (v1.0)

🔷 Rendering

• OBJ model loading
• Modular shader system
• Resource system (shader/model caching)
• Uniform Buffers
• Basic materials and rendering parameters

🔷 Lighting System

Fully functional lighting with multiple sources of each type:

• Directional Light
• Point Light
• Spot Light

All lights are controllable through ECS components.

🔷 Entity Component System (ECS)

Custom ECS implementation:

• EntityManager
• ComponentManager
• SystemManager
• ComponentArray<T>
• Coordinator (main ECS interface)

Designed to be simple, clean, and fast.

🔷 Scene System

• SceneManager for switching between multiple scenes
• Independent scene initialization

🔷 Serialization

Full JSON serialization/deserialization of:

• Transforms
• Models
• Lights
• Scene data
• And other components

Allows saving/loading complete scenes.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Language: C++
• Graphics API: OpenGL
• Build System: CMake
• Architecture: ECS

📌 Project Status

RenderCore v1.0 is a complete, stable release for its intended scope.
Rendering, ECS, lighting, scene management, and serialization are fully implemented.
Future updates may extend features, but this version represents a solid, working engine.

📁 Repository Structure

/external
└── external libraries

/include
├── components - ECS Components
├── ecs - ECS system
├── managers - Resource Managers, Scene Manager, Uniforms Manager
├── render - Mesh and Uniforms structures
└── systems - ECS Systems

/resources
└── objects, shaders, scenes, and other assets

/src
├── managers - implementation of managers
├── render - implementation of render classes
└── systems - implementation of ECS Systems

/include/App.h
/src/App.cpp - main App class

⚡ Build Instructions

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Run the executable from the build directory. You can change the current scene by keys 1,2...9,0

⭐ Final Notes

This engine was created as a personal learning project. Feel free to explore, fork, or use it as a reference for your own engine experiments.