BAsic Vulkan Engine
bave is a simple 2D engine written in C++20 and Vulkan.
bave-example-android.mp4
- Desktop / Android support.
- Efficient event queue.
- Double buffered render resources.
- Meshes and textures.
- Shaders, optional custom descriptor sets (but fixed layout).
-
DrawableAPI. - Fonts and text.
- Multi touch support.
- Audio playback.
- Streaming audio (music).
Documentation is located here.
- Windows, Linux on X11, or Android targets.
- MacOS support is experimental, and requires Vulkan SDK (it includes MoltenVK).
- Wayland is untested and may have some edge cases.
- Vulkan 1.1+ capable GPU, loader, and driver.
- C++ runtime.
- All runtime requirements, and:
- C++20 compiler and standard library*.
- CMake 3.22+.
- (Optional but highly recommended) Vulkan SDK and/or validation layers.
- Android validation layers are downloaded by the example, feel free to copy them / the script into your project.
bavevendors Vulkan headers and loads functions at runtime, so the SDK / loader is not needed at build time.
*Usage of C++20 library features currently unsupported on Android NDK and MacOS clang (eg
std::format,std::ranges, etc) has been avoided throughout bave.
See example for an app that's designed to target Android while being developed on the desktop.
bave-tools-animator.mp4
bave-tools (desktop only) includes some utilities to edit texture atlases, nine slices, and sprite animations.