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Turbo Game Engine (Leadwerks 5) beta updated with Vulkan renderer


Josh

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The beta of our new game engine has been updated with a new renderer built with the Vulkan graphics API, and all OpenGL code has been removed. Vulkan provides us with low-overhead rendering that delivers a massive increase in rendering performance. Early benchmarks indicate as much as a 10x improvement in speed over the Leadwerks 4 renderer.

The new engine features an streamlined API with modern C++ features and an improved binding library for Lua. Here's a simple C++ program in Turbo:

#include "Turbo.h"

using namespace Turbo;

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
	//Create a window
	auto window = CreateWindow("MyGame", 0, 0, 1280, 720);
	
	//Create a rendering context
	auto context = CreateContext(window);

	//Set some Lua variables
	VirtualMachine::lua->set("mainwindow", window);
	VirtualMachine::lua->set("maincontext", context);

	//Create the world
	auto world = CreateWorld();

	//Load a scene
	auto scene = LoadScene(world, "Maps/start.map");

	while (window->KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE) == false and window->Closed() == false)
	{
		world->Update();
		world->Render(context);
	}
	return 0;
}

Early adopters can get access to beta builds with a subscription of just $4.99 a month, which can be canceled at any time. New updates will come more frequently now that the basic renderer is working.

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Turning the lights back on. My OpenGL shader code will be easy to integrate. But I want to go slowly in small steps and test a lot, to make sure everything is very solid.

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I love that new way of writing the code, it's much more readable. 

auto window = Turbo::CreateWindow("MyGame", 0, 0, 1280, 720);

 

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32 minutes ago, Iris3D Games said:

I love that new way of writing the code, it's much more readable. 


auto window = Turbo::CreateWindow("MyGame", 0, 0, 1280, 720);

 

The Turbo:: namespace isn't actually needed. I'm not sure why I had that in my example.

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I'm also adding some easy Lua commands:

LuaSetGlobal("mainwindow", window);
LuaSetGlobal("maincontext", context);

 

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Wait, that's all it takes? Does that set up Lua interpreter and create the C++ game all in just those few puny lines of code? This is amazing!

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