Realm

Hobby game framework and game in D

Features

• Batch rendering
• Materials
• Model loading (.obj)
• Texture loading
• Debug/Line drawing
• Shadows
• Streamlined shader creation
  • With shader program caching
• Virtual file system
• Little to no overhead ECS
• UI/Screen space rendering
  • Text
  • Coloured panels

Building

Dependencies

• D compiler
• dub package manager
• CMake/make/meson/MSBuild
  • For building freetype, so see here for what you need.
  • Or you could just get a prebuilt binary and place it in Projects/<Project>/bin
  • Either way you do it be sure to get freetype 2.11

Process

1. First clone and get submodules using -recursive flag or running
   git submodule init
git submodule update
2. If building freetype, its already configured to build a dynamic library, it is under external/freetype
   • See link above for directions
3. Go to your game project root (for example Projects/RealmGame) and type
   dub run or dub config --config=realm-executable
   • To build out to a dynamic library use dub config --config=realm-dynamiclibrary

Creating a project

2. Run ./bootstrap/new-project.bat <name>from repository root
   • This will create a dub project under ./Projects/name and register realm engine package
3. Configure dub.json
   • in the generated dub.json add the following:
     "dependencies" : {"realm" : "~main"}
"workingDirectory" : "../../"