Rendering Engine Roadmap

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This is a basic high level overview roadmap of what is to be implemented, in pursuit of making a coherent engine.

Everything created should be highly extensible and robust, allowing no bulwark to form between incremental updates and the current version.

Phase 1: Core Engine Development

• Improve Error Handling and Add Logging
• Implement a Scene Graph
• Develop a Basic Material System
• Implement a Batching System for Draw Calls
• Implement Frustum Culling
• Add Basic Physics
• Implement an Entity Component System (ECS)
• Update Renderer to Align with Data-Oriented Design(DOD) Principles
• Enhance Documentation

Phase 2: Rendering Fundamentals

• Implement Basic Lighting
• Add Support for Particle System
• Implement a Robust Memory Management System
• Develop a Multi-threading Framework with a Job System
• Create an Event System
• Implement a Resource Management System

Tools and Utilities

• Implement Profiling and Debugging Tools
• Add Support for Asset Import/Export

Phase 3: Advanced Rendering and Optimization

• Implement Occlusion Culling
• Develop Volumetric Rendering Techniques (for nebulae and gas clouds)
• Implement an LOD System

Phase 4:

Begin extensive work on the Physics Engine (separate project)

Long Term Goals

• Add Support for Procedural Generation of Celestial Bodies
• Multiple rendering pipelines(clustered, deferred, post-processing), and the ability for the engine to dynamically choose between them
• Much more complex physics engine
• More complex lighting (ray tracing, global illumination, radiative transfer)
• Add support for GPU compute shaders

This list is roughly in order, except for Long Term Goals.