C++ Animation Engine

My biggest project while getting my master’s was building a 3D game/animation engine from scratch in C++.

The objective is to create a lean, fast engine that uses libraries built by myself. This means not using STL containers, except for some offline tools to generate the animation data.

While I was working on this project I wrote some blogs about a few of the concepts.

Features

• Full memory system tracking allocations and deletions in a custom heap using a landgrab of Win32 memory

• Parent-Child-Sibling tree hierarchy and iterator

• Robust, custom Math library and functions: Vectors, Matrices, Quaternions, SLERP, LERP, and more

• File system wrapper over the STL system to add better error reporting and file handling

• Update and Draw loop logic containing various objects for models, textures, shaders, cameras, and more

• Offline converter using the FBX SDK to convert complex models into readable data for our engine

• Selective keyframe drop compression using a variable delta

• Full 3D model viewer with interactive camera

• Model skinning

• Animation engine including key frames, blending, controllers

• Multiple shader pipeline

• Animation, skinning, and blending on the GPU