a couple of weeks ago i started to work on a custom game engine for AIO.
i decicded to uses the Silk.net graphics framework, which is basically a low level wrapper for OpenGL/Vulkan.
What is already working:
- glTF support for model import
- Texture import
- Skybox rendering
- Anti-Aliasing
- PBR Shader
What I’m doing right now:
- Line Renderer
- Particle System
TODO:
- UI
- Planet Shader
The UI will be based on ImGUI because Silk.net natively supports it and is already working.
It will be a lot of work to port everything over, but i’m very positive to get this done in the next few weeks.
All the networking code is already in a seperate library and should be quite easy to integrate.
I have also moved all the game assets in a seperate repo to make it easier to switch between rendering engines.
Overall it is a huge time investment and certainly you can argue that it would be better for the game to just stick with unity, and i agree, but Unity’s recent actions in trying to change their licensing model are leaving me with not much room for choice here.