Gameobject Component system

This was the first thing I ever made for what would later become Catbox. In our very first TGA2D assignment I made a GameObject and Component class, and have brought them with me in every C++ project since. The system is a replica of how it works in Unity, with the reason being that it would be easy for the other programmers to get into and understand how to use it. I have heard from the other programmers in my group that the programming pipeline is very nice because of this system and the engine as a whole, which is always nice to hear.

In-engine editor

The engine has its built in level editor, so there is no need to import levels from Unity or Unreal. Firstly, it has a scene hierarchy with drag & drop parenting support, shift-clicking to select multiple objects at once, ctrl-clicking to select or deselect objects, and a search bar (however I didn’t make that part, credit goes to Markus Hermelin).

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Being able to select objects in the viewport instead of being forced to use the hierarchy is very important for the level editor to be usable. For this, I used a common solution which is to map the object’s ID to a render texture. You can then sample the ID back from the render texture using the mouse position and use the ID as an index to access the gameobject. I also implemented drag-select support, so you can sample IDs within a rectangle.

Particle Editor

This was my favorite tool to develop! It's really fun to build onto the editor and adding new features and expanding the boundaries of what kind of effects you can create.