Sector Engine Overview VERSION COMING JUNE, 2015 Sector Engine is still in development, this presentation could change in the future

OpenGL  Sector Engine uses the OpenGL API exclusively, DirectX isn’t supported  The use of OpenGL allows the engine to have a wide range of compatible devices  The OpenGL API is much simpler and easier to use tan DirectX  OpenGL has ports to Java and Python, along with a native C++ version  Extensive documentation is available over OpenGL  Lower CPU overhead than DirectX

Features  Sector Engine has versions in Java and C++  Many features supported are usually exclusive to commercial engines  Sector Engine is free and open source (more to come)  All of the documentation is written by the person who created it  Starter content  Features a GUI for level editing and animation control  Python scripting with Jython and Iron Python  Uses OpenGL specification 4.5 core

What to Expect  OBJ and FBX model formats excepted  Skybox loading  Weather  Physics and Collision systems  Advanced artificial intelligence and player tracking perfect for real time games  JHeightMap and CHeightMap generators are integrated into the engine

Performance  Sector Engine is a primarily GPU based engine; variables, physics/collision calculations, and rendering are all performed on the GPU  Uses VAOs and VBOs for all data being drawn to the screen to reduce the amount of CPU calls made during program execution  Physics are all calculated on the GPU to take advantage of the extremely fast speed of graphics cards and provide advanced physics calculations with almost no latency  Rendering is all GPU based too, using the shader pipeline, Sector Engine can use the graphics card to draw instead of the considerably slower CPU

Open Source  Sector Engine is published under the Apache V2 license agreement and is completely free to use  The Open Source nature of Sector Engine allows for modification and integration without the hassle of private project collaboration and paychecks  Add in features for you…or for everyone, whenever you modify Sector Engine, you can keep the changes for just a specific project or you can propose a pull request on Github and add the feature for everyone

Credits  Lane Surface – Core engine functionality, JHeightMap and Cheightmap, Documentaion, Website, shaders, and scripting  Nathaniel Singewald – Higher level classes, bug testing, and design  Khronos Group for their support of OpenGL  OpenGL Super Bible – Help with the migration to OpenGL specification 4.5 core  Jamie King and Oskar Veerhoek for the awesome OpenGL tutorials