AV Engine Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for the AV Engine.

The AV engine is a game engine written in C++ that I’ve been writing in my free time, as part of a larger project. The eventual goal and purpose of the engine is to support an as of yet unreleased game. This documentation aims to serve as a means for me to document how everything works and fits together, as well as how to use the functions of the engine itself.

Features of the engine include:

  • Implementation of a streamable open world

  • Real-time physics

  • A heavy focus on scripting and data driven content

  • Abstraction of platform specifics

  • An Entity Component System

  • Support for serialisation

  • A powerful dialog system

As well as this I’ve tried to architect the engine as cleanly as possible, both as a learning experience and to increase its future maintainability. The engine tries to be as data driven as it can, while still trying to be as optimised as possible.

The engine is intended to support a game with the following features:

  • 3D graphics

  • A streamable open world

  • Explorative style RPG

  • Top down style gameplay where the camera follows the player

  • Extensibility via scripts and mods

  • Cross Platform

However, it can be used to create other sorts of projects as well. For instance, 2d games are completely possible using the engine’s 2d features. Furthermore, with its data driven nature, many different kinds of projects can be created using this engine.

Much of the engine is based on external libraries. These include:

  • Ogre3D

  • Bullet Physics

  • EntityX

  • Squirrel (Scripting Language)

  • SDL for desktop windowing

  • A few smaller utility libraries