Flax Engine

Flax Engine is a high quality modern 3D game engine written in C++ and C#. From stunning graphics to powerful scripts - Flax can give everything for your games. Designed for fast workflow with many ready to use features waiting for you right now. To learn more see the website (www.flaxengine.com).

This repository contains full source code of the Flax Engine (excluding NDA-protected platforms support). Anyone is welcome to contribute or use the modified source in Flax-based games.

Development

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Getting started

Follow the instructions below to compile and run the engine from source.

Flax plugin for Visual Studio

Flax Visual Studio extension provides better programming workflow, C# scripts debugging functionality and allows to attach to running engine instance to debug C# source. This extension is available to download here.

Windows

Install Visual Studio 2015 or newer
Install Windows 8.1 SDK or newer
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 v140 toolset or newer
Clone repo (with LFS)
Run GenerateProjectFiles.bat
Open Flax.sln and set solution configuration to Editor.Development and solution platform to Win64
Set Flax (C++) or FlaxEngine (C#) as startup project
Compile Flax project (hit F7 or CTRL+Shift+B)
Run Flax (hit F5 key)

Note

If building on Windows to support Vulkan rendering, first install the Vulkan SDK then set an environment variable to provide the path to the SDK prior to running GenerateProjectFiles.bat:

set VULKAN_SDK=C:\VulkanSDK\version\

Linux

Install Visual Studio Code
Install Mono (https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable)
Install Git with LFS
Install requried packages: sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev nuget autoconf libogg-dev automake build-essential gettext cmake python libtool libtool-bin libpulse-dev libasound2-dev libjack-dev portaudio19-dev
Install compiler sudo apt-get install clang lldb lld (Clang 6 or newer)
Clone repo (with LFS)
Run ./GenerateProjectFiles.sh
Open workspace with Visual Code
Build and run (configuration and task named Flax|Editor.Linux.Development|x64)

Workspace directory

Binaries/ - executable files
- Editor/ - Flax Editor binaries
- Tools/ - tools binaries
Cache/ - local data cache folder used by the engine and tools
- Intermediate/ - intermediate files and cache for engine build
  - ProjectName/ - per-project build cache data
  - Deps/ - Flax.Build dependencies building cache
- Projects/ - project files location
Content/ - assets and binary files used by the engine and editor
Development/ - engine development files
- Scripts/ - utility scripts
packages/ - NuGet packages cache location
Source/ - source code location
- Editor/ - Flax Editor source code
- Engine/ - Flax Engine source code
- Platforms/ - per-platform sources and dependency files
  - DotNet/ - C# dependencies
  - Editor/ - Flax Editor binaries
  - PlatformName/ - per-platform files
    - Binaries/ - per-platform binaries
      - Game/ - Flax Game binaries
      - Mono/ - Mono runtime files and data
      - ThirdParty/ - prebuilt 3rd Party binaries
- Shaders/ - shaders source code
- ThirdParty/ - 3rd Party source code
- Tools/ - development tools source code

Licensing and Contributions

Using Flax source code is strictly governed by the Flax Engine End User License Agreement. If you don't agree to those terms, as amended from time to time, you are not permitted to access or use Flax Engine.

We welcome any contributions to Flax Engine development through pull requests on GitHub. Most of our active development is in the master branch, so we prefer to take pull requests there (particularly for new features). We try to make sure that all new code adheres to the Flax coding standards. All contributions are governed by the terms of the EULA.

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