Vercidium Engine - Documentation
Added 2025-07-01 08:15:27 +0000 UTCI've started writing documentation for the engine and it's publicly available at https://publish.obsidian.md/ve. It's a work in progress, I'm working on it every night so check back daily for the latest updates.
My goal is for the engine to be intuitive to use, and provide plenty of examples to go with it. While this engine won't compete with Godot or Unreal, my hope is that it'll help you learn and experiment with OpenGL, multithreading, networking and much more.
Surprisingly I'm enjoying writing these docs. That might be because I'm cleaning up the code as I go, or because it feels like I'm making the code/engine 'official'.
I'm starting with the high level concepts (update loop, shaders, input, UI, etc) to cover the main features, and then I'll drill down into more specific features.
If you have any requests for what I document next, please let me know!
I'm also writing docs for Raytraced Audio here, if you haven't gained access to the demo or the Discord server yet, please sign up at https://vercidium.com/audio
Changelog
VE = Vercidium Engine
RA = Raytraced Audio
July 1st
VE - mouse + keyboard input
RA - voices, interfaces
July 2nd
RA - Voice, SpatialisedVoice. Interfaces
July 3rd
VE - VertexBuffer, TypedVertexBuffer, Vertex buffers overview, vertex attribute strings, GL features
RA - voxel types, AudioContext, RaytracedAudioContext, bare minimum raytracing example code
July 4th
VE - animation example
RA - voxel data structure - AudioVoxel, AudioChunk, AudioMap, AudioVoxelType
July 5th
VE - screen recorder / animation rendering
RA - finished AudioVoxel/Chunk/Map data structure, fields and functions
July 9th:
VE - better docs for rendering to MP4
July 10th:
RA - revised startup docs, data-only mode, device selection, long sounds, leeching, Play3D arguments
July 24th:
RA - model to voxel conversion
Comments
Thanks :) I have a full time job and work on this in the mornings/evenings/weekends. I see it more as a side gig than a hobby, I try to do at least something on it every day.
Vercidium
2025-07-10 00:48:02 +0000 UTCGreat progress! I had a quick question for you, do you do this full time or is it just a hobby you do? If you work how do you manage your time? I know this is kind of a loaded question, but just thought I’d ask. Either way you are doing Phenomenal work!
The Idea Junkie
2025-07-09 15:48:07 +0000 UTCA lot of your features are more advanced and performant than what Godot, Unreal and Unity have. It's probably just that they have a wider community support base (and/or more funding) that allows them to catch bugs and add new features more quickly... Which is to say they might have more features or it might be easier for the end user to set theirs up but the quality of the features you provide would be higher
J19
2025-07-01 17:18:20 +0000 UTC
