Veltrix Engine

The engine is in Alpha and is in active development

# <strong>Veltrix Engine</strong>

3D game engine built on Python with Pyglet and OpenGL.

## 🎯 What is Veltrix Engine?

Veltrix Engine is a game engine designed for simplicity and stability. It provides a complete solution for developing 3D games in Python with rendering, physics, and UI system.

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What does the game engine contain?

Core / ECS Feature
Status Window + main loop (pyglet) ✓
Scenes (Scene) ✓ 
Entities + components (Entity, Component) ✓
Components can add other components at runtime (no crash) ✓ 
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3D Rendering Feature
Status 3D mesh rendering (Renderer.render_mesh) ✓ 
GLSL shader pipeline ✓ 
Fixed-function fallback (no shader) ✓ 
Camera + view/projection matrices ✓ 
3D primitives (cube/sphere mesh generation) ✓ 
Textures on materials (diffuse texture)    ✓ 
Normal/specular maps in Material as data fields (can be loaded)    ✓
Full PBR pipeline (metal/roughness workflow in shaders)    X
Post-processing (bloom/SSAO/tonemapping) X
Shadow mapping X 
Deferred rendering X
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Lighting Feature    
Status Ambient light ✓ 
Directional light ✓ 
Point light ✓ 
Spot light ✓
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Assets / Models Feature    Status OBJ import (mesh) ✓
Basic MTL support (colors + diffuse/normal map loading) ✓ 
FBX import X 
glTF import X 
Skeletal animation data (bones/skinning) X 
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Animation Feature    
Status 3D Transform keyframe animation (position/rotation/scale) ✓ 
3D skeletal animation (rigged characters) X 
2D frame animation (sprite frames) ✓ 
2D spritesheet slicing helper ✓ 
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Physics (SnowFox) Feature    
Status 2D rigid bodies + collisions (box/circle) ✓ 
3D rigid bodies + collisions (box/sphere) ✓
Constraints/joints (hinge, spring, etc.) X 
(not present in current codebase) Character controller X 
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UI Feature    
Status UI system (panels/labels/buttons, mouse handling) ✓ 
Layout system (flex/grid-style)    X 
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Audio / Networking / Tools Feature    
Status Audio loading in resource manager (API exists) ✓ 
(loading/caching exists; full audio feature set not demonstrated) 
Networking / multiplayer X 
Editor / scene editor ✓

Why Veltrix?

• An editor that combines a simple style of map creation, the foundations of the Hammer Editor, and a lightweight UI style inspired by Unity.
• Completely written in Python (everything!!!)
• Support for small teams and developers working on interesting projects.