sfray

Old-school FPS raycast engine written in C++11 and using SFML 2.3.

Please note that this is not a complete game or even really a game at all. This project focuses on the rendering engine for the raycasting. You can build off of this to add movement, combat and the other things that make a real game. The included example showcases how to do a few of these things.

Features

Ability to render walls, floors and ceilings as textures or colors
Rendering of sprite objects (Entity class)

Roadmap

These are things I would like to explore and try to figure out, when I have more time available to do so.

Walls with different heights
Animated entities
Animated walls and floors/ceilings
More rendering methods and options to give more choices to the developer as to where to cut corners

Resources

Check out my random Youtube videos that show sort of snapshots of the development of the engine:

And here is probably the absolute best tutorial for a starting place. Note: this tutorial was not done in SFML, but the basic idea is how this is done and what I based my version off of.

Example Program

The example program (located in main.cpp) shows basic usage. I've tried to clean it up and add comments.

Demo Features

Floor, ceiling and wall rendering methods
Toggle entity drawing on and off
Camera movement and collision
Overlay "gun" example (defaults to hidden, see keybindings to key to toggle it to visible).
Frames-per-second output to help debug performance gains/losses.

Keybindings

Arrow Keys: movement/rotation
Z: Cycle floor rendering method
X: Cycle ceiling rendering method
C: Cycle wall rendering method
V: Cycle entities on and off
B: Cycle overlay example on and off

Raycaster

Rendering Options

There are different rendering "options" for walls, floor, ceiling and entities.

Walls

None
Colored
Textured

Floor

None
Colored
Textured

Ceiling

None
Colored
Textured

Entities

None
Textured

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for more info.

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