ZiRC

Learning Zig by building a raycasting engine.

Screenshot

An explicit goal of this project is to do as much as possible in software. As such, except for the skyclinder, all of the rendering is done in software and hardware acceleration is only used to scale the resulting image.

In particular alpha blending is implemented in software. This was the result of an interesting diversion into unsigned integer arithmetic approximations of floating point computations.

Features

[X] Basic textured raycasting
[X] View-bobbing, collision detection with walls, momentum etc
[X] Textured floors and ceilings
[X] Variable height walls
[X] Render tops of walls
[X] Static sprite objects
[X] Skyclinder*
[X] No overdraw (without sprites, skyclinder)
[X] Variable height ceilings
[X] Walls extending from ceiling instead of floor
[ ] Sprites look different from different directions
[ ] Animated textures
[ ] Fluid-like floors
[ ] Procedurally generated textures

*It's topologically a cylinder, not a box; hardware rendered for now

Build

Ensure you have a recent version of Zig (tested on 0.9.0-dev.866+6a6e2cd64), and the csfml library somewhere we your linker can find it. Then run

zig build -Drelease-fast run

The default keybinds are FRST for Forward, Left Strafe, Backward, Right Strafe and the arrow keys for similar but turn instead of strafe. Escape exits.

License

The code is GPLv3+, the artwork is CC-BY-SA 4.0