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Intrinsic: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Vulkan Game Engine

66 points by Jarlakxen 10y ago

swsieber 10y ago
Cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a-ZEjYAwxRsJ:www.intrinsic-engine.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a-ZEjYA...
- corysama 10y ago
  also https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic
tubs 10y ago
Just having taken a very quick look through the source, you should not really be doing individual memory allocations per-resource.
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floopidydoopidy 10y ago
Is Visual Studio truly a requirement? If so, no thanks.
- MildlySerious 10y ago
  Isn't VS the way to go for building the Windows version for many projects? Are there ways around it?
  - floopidydoopidy 10y ago
    Because it says 'Cross-Platform' and is anything but with that requirement.
    - cma 10y ago
      It says it is early and linux support is coming soon. It is open source, so you can help speed up the linux support.
RayDonnelly 10y ago
Most games developers won't touch GPL3, why not LGPL? Also should games engines really have *Player.cpp/.h files?
- ktta 10y ago
  From the home page: OPEN SOURCE Intrinsic is available to the public domain under the GPL v3. If you’re interested in licensing Intrinsic for your commercial or closed-source project (without the restricitions of the GPL), just contact me.
  - floatboth 10y ago
    that's... a weird usage of the words "public domain" also for some reason Qt is listed as a "proprietary" dependency in the readme
    - RayDonnelly 10y ago
      Further, linking PhysX to GPL3 is not possible.
    - ovao 10y ago
      I agree, I think there's some confusion as to what "public domain" means in this context. This project is open source software, but not public domain software.
    - ktta 10y ago
      That's maybe because, since he's also selling commercial license, Qt must be paid for(Qt is only LGPL/GPL for OSS). Some people refer to anything not "completely" free to use, as proprietary. It funny because his software would be "proprietary" in case that's what he actually meant.
BoorishBears 10y ago
Linux section says it's coming soon. Android says almost the same in even less certain terms. OSX not even mentioned. VS based builds. Is this really cross platform?
- executesorder66 10y ago
  > OSX not even mentioned. That's because OSX does not support Vulkan. But yeah, I hate it when projects claim to be cross-platform but what they really mean is "hope to be cross platform one day"
  - erichocean 10y ago
    > OSX does not support Vulkan https://moltengl.com/ https://moltengl.com/
    - chme 10y ago
      So the right way to say it would be "Apple does not support Vulkan".
    - ovao 10y ago
      Is it really accurate to describe this as a "Vulkan implementation", or would it instead be considered a "Vulkan wrapper/translation layer"? It appears to be the latter: MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on Apple's Metal graphics framework.
irascible 10y ago
Intrinsic Alchemy was the name of a graphics api in the 90s.. might want to beware of tm.
speps 10y ago
A game engine is mostly tools, foundations (containers, serialisation), gameplay frameworks (entities, components, AI). This is not a game engine by my definition if it's marketed as "Vulkan only". Also, I have the feeling that every game should look different and have its own art direction, being able to switch the whole rendering pipeline is essential. Why not contribute to bgfx[1] really? It's a "Graphics API", not a "game engine"... [1] https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

66 points by Jarlakxen 10y ago

Cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a-ZEjYAwxRsJ:www.intrinsic-engine.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a-ZEjYA...

corysama 10y ago
also https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic

tubs 10y ago

Just having taken a very quick look through the source, you should not really be doing individual memory allocations per-resource.

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floopidydoopidy 10y ago

Is Visual Studio truly a requirement? If so, no thanks.

MildlySerious 10y ago
Isn't VS the way to go for building the Windows version for many projects? Are there ways around it?
- floopidydoopidy 10y ago
  Because it says 'Cross-Platform' and is anything but with that requirement.
  - cma 10y ago
    It says it is early and linux support is coming soon. It is open source, so you can help speed up the linux support.

RayDonnelly 10y ago

Most games developers won't touch GPL3, why not LGPL? Also should games engines really have *Player.cpp/.h files?

ktta 10y ago
From the home page: OPEN SOURCE Intrinsic is available to the public domain under the GPL v3. If you’re interested in licensing Intrinsic for your commercial or closed-source project (without the restricitions of the GPL), just contact me.
- floatboth 10y ago
  that's... a weird usage of the words "public domain" also for some reason Qt is listed as a "proprietary" dependency in the readme
  - RayDonnelly 10y ago
    Further, linking PhysX to GPL3 is not possible.
  - ovao 10y ago
    I agree, I think there's some confusion as to what "public domain" means in this context. This project is open source software, but not public domain software.
  - ktta 10y ago
    That's maybe because, since he's also selling commercial license, Qt must be paid for(Qt is only LGPL/GPL for OSS). Some people refer to anything not "completely" free to use, as proprietary. It funny because his software would be "proprietary" in case that's what he actually meant.

BoorishBears 10y ago

Linux section says it's coming soon. Android says almost the same in even less certain terms. OSX not even mentioned. VS based builds. Is this really cross platform?

executesorder66 10y ago
> OSX not even mentioned. That's because OSX does not support Vulkan. But yeah, I hate it when projects claim to be cross-platform but what they really mean is "hope to be cross platform one day"
- erichocean 10y ago
  > OSX does not support Vulkan https://moltengl.com/ https://moltengl.com/
  - chme 10y ago
    So the right way to say it would be "Apple does not support Vulkan".
  - ovao 10y ago
    Is it really accurate to describe this as a "Vulkan implementation", or would it instead be considered a "Vulkan wrapper/translation layer"? It appears to be the latter: MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on Apple's Metal graphics framework.

irascible 10y ago

Intrinsic Alchemy was the name of a graphics api in the 90s.. might want to beware of tm.

speps 10y ago

A game engine is mostly tools, foundations (containers, serialisation), gameplay frameworks (entities, components, AI). This is not a game engine by my definition if it's marketed as "Vulkan only". Also, I have the feeling that every game should look different and have its own art direction, being able to switch the whole rendering pipeline is essential. Why not contribute to bgfx[1] really? It's a "Graphics API", not a "game engine"... [1] https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx