Orion Engine v1.0.1

Erradicating the bugs and polishing

Features included in this version:

• Lots of bug fixes.
• Tuned up controls in order to give best user experience.
• Performance improvements when loading resources.

No bugs can be left alive.

Orion Engine v1.0.0

v1.0.0 release is here!

Features included in this version:

• Mesh materials. It mesh has its own material, that stores different textures and light parameters.
• New ComponentLight, that represents a light source for the scene. It's used along the mesh materials.
• Mouse picking. Game objects can be selected clicking on them in scene window.
• Gizmos. They are used to modify the transform of the selected object.

Orion Engine v0.2.2-alpha

Binary files and scene serialization

Features included in this version:

• Better resources management.
• Assets are transformed to less space-consuming format.
• New cache that avoids duplication of resources.
• Serialization of a scene, that allows loading and saving scenes.

Orion Engine v0.2.1-alpha

Speeding up the engine!

Features included in this version:

• New module ModuleCamera. It contains camera frustums that can be attached to GameObjects.
• Two new tabs, Scene and Game. The former contains the scene seen from the editor camera while the later contains the scene seen from the game camera.
• Frustum culling. With this improvement meshes that are outside camera frustum are discarded in the render process.
• Camera clear modes. Camera can be cleared into a skybox or a plain color.
• Texture is rendered using a texture instead of OpenGL primitives.
• Quadtree and OctTree. With this improvement we can speed up even more the render process by reducing the number of checks.
• New module ModuleDebug. It contains usefull Debug functions.

Depiction of the engine getting rid off useless meshes.

Orion Engine v0.2.0-alpha

And there were GameObjects

Features included in this version:

• GameObjects come in. Each GameObject represents an entity that can be modified using components.
• Components are objects that contain different entities parts, like meshes, materials, etc.
• New hierarchy window that represents the scene GameObject hierarchy.
• Revamped properties window. Here component parameters can be modified.

The engine after this release.

Orion Engine v0.1.5-alpha

Final 0.1 version (this is the one teachers)!

Features included in this version:

• Fixed various bugs.
• Several refactors in order to follow good C++ practises.
• Super cool README.

Orion Engine v0.1.4-alpha

New LOG, preparations for final 0.1 alpha version!

Features included in this version:

• Revamped log. It displays messages in a clearer and more readable way.
• Debug messages are captured from Assimp and OpenGL.
• Filter messages by soruce!
• Model texture can be overwritten dragging and dropping a png file into the engine window.

Orion Engine v0.1.3-alpha

wow UI, so much configuration options

Features included in this version:

• New gorgeous GUI.
• Lots of new configuration options for different modules (camera, render, ...).
• Scene is rendered in a separate window.
• Model properties are shown in a new window.
• Camera speed and focus is calculated regarding the loaded model size.

Orion Engine v0.1.2-alpha

Time starts to flow, impending new GUI shows in the horizon...

Features included in this version:

• Added time module, that controls time flow. It implements two clocks, the real time clock and the game clock.
• Time can be paused and stepped foward one frame. Also time scale can be changed.
• FPS can be limited.
• Started new implementation of GUI. Added some new info to camera config.

Orion Engine v0.1.1-alpha

This is about model loading and a camera

Features included in this version:

• Improved model loading. Is possible to load models dragging and dropping their .fbx files into the engine's window. Camera will be scaled accordingly to new model dimensions.
• Improved camera controls. Pressing F will focus the camera on the loaded model. Also, pressing Alt will make the camera orbit around the current model.
• Added bounding box. Pressing B will enable/disable the bounding box of the current model.