November 2004 - February 2007

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• The Project Realism Engine (PREngine) was my first game engine.

• It was developed while I was at university, as a side project for the first 2 years. In the final year it was used in its first game, called Boy Racer.

• Written in C++ and Directx 9.0c, using Microsft Visual Studio.NET 2005, and FX composer 1.8 for HLSL shader development.

• It went through many revisions and started out as just a learning experience with Directx, but evolved to contain:

  • A physics engine (using Newton Game Dynamics).
  • Lua scripting support.
  • XML parser.
  • 3D surround sound.
  • Complex scene graph (which arranges scenes by material, instance, or distance from camera, for max rendering speed on Directx 9 hardware).
  • Resource manager (loads .x meshes, textures, sounds, and .fx HLSL effects).
  • Keyboard, mouse, windows controller, and XBOX360 controller support.
  • User interface (UI) system.
  • Video player (using DirectShow).
  • Full HLSL shader support (that automatically scales for a range of graphics cards; from shader model 1.1 to 2.0b).
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Please e-mail me if you would like to see the C++ source code.

	Effects Demo August 2007

• Displays 3 boxes with the following shaders on.

  • (Left) Texture Mapping
  • (Middle) Bump mapping with specular highlights.
  • (Right) Parallax mapping with specular highlights.

• All shaders scale from pixel shader version 1 through to 2b (Set shader quality in settings box).

• Shaders written in HLSL, using FX Composer 1.8.

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Physics Demo July 2007

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• Uses Newton Game Dynamics for the Physics.

• Uses the PREngine to load the scene and draw the graphics (Uses a Directx 9.0c powered renderer).

• Shows a sphere being projected into a tower of blocks. The physics simulation can be paused and restarted at the touch of a button.

• I've included the automatic Doxygen code documentation as well (which makes reading whole code bases much easier, although it's just here for demonstration purposes).

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Demo.......Documentation