Forte Engine

A basic WGPU render engine designed to have a very small amount of overhead. In the future, this will serve as a base for other Forte Engine related modules.

Modules

Math

Extensions for cgmath to make our lives easier. For example, Quaternion::euler_deg_x(angle: f32) allows us to quickly create quaternions with a angle around the x axis.

Render

The basic render engine. This handles everything from creating the app and window, to handling inputs, to rendering mesh. See below for examples.

Lights

This module handles the basic information needed for lights. See examples below.

Shader Information

Basic

Group 0: Camera Information

This contains the information of the camera.

Struct arguments:

• view_pos: The position in 3d space of the camera. The fourth W value can be set to anything needed for the shader.
• view_proj: The combined view and projection matrix for rendering.

struct CameraUniform {
    view_pos: vec4<f32>,
    view_proj: mat4x4<f32>,
};
@group(0) @binding(0)
var<uniform> camera: CameraUniform;

Group 1: Texture

The texture to render with.

Binding 0: The texture itself. Binding 1: The sampler that will be used to "sample" the texture according to WGPU specs.

@group(1) @binding(0)
var t_diffuse: texture_2d<f32>;
@group(1) @binding(1)
var s_diffuse: sampler;

Options: Lights

Group 2: Lights

This is the basic information required for lights in a scene. You may wish to tweak what lights are passed to the shader based on their distances to the player.

Struct arguments:

• position: the position the light in 3d space.
• range: the range of the light in units.
• color: the color of the light.
• exponent: the exponent used to "soften" the edges of the lights.
• direction: the direction the light is pointing, this only needs to be set if cutoff is set.
• cutoff: the dot product where the light will "cutoff", this is useful for spotlights where the light will not emit in 360 degrees.

struct Light {
    position: vec3<f32>,
    range: f32,
    color: vec3<f32>,
    exponent: f32,
    direction: vec3<f32>, 
    cutoff: f32
}
@group(2) @binding(0)
var<storage, read_write> lights: array<Light>;
@group(2) @binding(1)
var<uniform> num_lights: u32;
@group(2) @binding(2)
var<uniform> ambient_light: vec3<f32>;