Gen2

Gen2 is an open source game engine for Delphi. It is base on DirectX9 and allows Delphi users to create 2D and 3D games for Windows.

Core components of the engine

• Graphics engine based on Direct3D9
• Sound engine based on DirectSound, DirectMusic and DirectShow
• Keyboard and mouse input handling through DirectInput
• A set of tools for networking

Game development tools

• Sprite engine for 2D games with built in physics
• Scene manager for 3D games with built in physics and programmable render
• More sophisticated physics is accessible through Newton Game Dynamics
• Automatic rag doll generation from g2m meshes
• Easy access to render target textures including cube map render targets
• Highly optimized and easily extensible 3D particle engine
• A g2m mesh format that supports static, animated, skinned meshes as well as entire scenes with lights, multitexturing and meta information
• Standard mesh render through sm 3.0 and fixed function for lower end PCs
• Skinnable graphical user interface
• 2D and 3D landscapes
• Path finding and other useful utilities

Utilities

• 3DS Max plug-ins for export of DirectX(.x) and Gen2(.g2m) meshes
• Mesh viewer for .x and .g2m formats
• Texture viewer for bmp, jpg, tga, png, ppm, dib, hdr, pfm and dds formats
• Resource packer program with compression and encryption
• A program for stitching several images into a single animation texture
• Shader editor and compiler program
• Font editor with a rich set of effects
• Graphical user interface skin editor