Permafrost Engine is an OpenGL 3.3 real-time strategy game engine written in C, made in the image of old classics, but with some modern ideas.

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Engine Features

• OpenGL 3.3 Programmable Pipeline
• Skeletal animation with GPU skinning
• Directional Light and Shadow Mapping
• Rendering of water (including reflection, refraction, soft edge effects).
• Export/import game entities from ASCII files
• event system
• UI framework (based on Nuklear)
• Efficient Raycasting
• Map/Scene Editor
• suspend/resume system
• Fast rendering of huge maps
• Map navigation graph/grid generation
• Efficient Spatial Indexing Using Quadtrees
• Efficient real-time tracking of members of dynamic spatial regions
• Audio system supporting positional effects and multi-channel global effects
• Ranged combat using efficient projectile physics simulation
• Supports different resolutions and aspect ratios
• Configurable graphics settings
• Save and restore any engine session, including the state of all Python definitions
• Advanced debug visualization and analysis tools
• Cross-platform (Linux and Windows)
• …

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• SDL2 2.0.10
• GLEW 2.1.0
• python 2.7.17
• openal-soft 1.21.1
• stb_image.h, stb_image_resize.h
• khash.h
• nuklear.h