# Hipreme Engine v1.0.0 Announcement
Today, I'm glad to announce that Hipreme Engine is finally
releasing its version 1.0. The 1000th commit marks the first
release of this engine. There is a lot of work already done and a
lot of work to be done. Some systems may find unstable support,
such as Linux, which of course I'm willing to help, since it is
not my development platform, it may not even work on the first
run. But, even though this may happen, there is still a lot of
work already done to be shown. It is the first D library with
that quantity of abstraction done for making your work fully
cross platform. But, with a lot of missing functionality, why
announce right now?
# iOS Porting is Done
# Battle Testing
It is high time to start battle testing Hipreme Engine. The
engine is not gonna suffer any more power refactor for some time
now, since all the platforms are supported, the abstraction is
good enough for doing much.
### Make It Better
By releasing this to public, it is possible to identify common
pitfalls that could be easily solved with a little time. Build
selector born from the need of making it easier to users setup
the engine.
### Be Patient
Expecting the engine to work with the same behavior on every OS
and API is quite a hard task. It may take some time until the
engine is stable for everyone, although I guarantee I've done the
best I could to provide a high quality experience.
### Your Issue Is My Priority
If you find any kind of issue, don't be afraid to submit the
issue, don't try to circumvent it unless you're really planning
to release anything soon. By submitting the issue you make me
aware of it and I'm certain that if it is doable, it is
definitely priority.
## Platforms Supported:
- Windows
- Linux
- MacOS
- iOS
- Android
- PS Vita
- WebAssembly
- Xbox Series
## Current Compiler:
- DMD 2.106
- LDC 1.36
### Warning:
You won't be able to use your PC's D version. This was made
because the existence of the custom runtime I'm supporting right
now and to guarantee the best experience of any user. The
language understands which version you're using on
build_selector, and queries your permission for downloading it.
Since this is a one person project, this is the best way I found
for guaranteeing more stability.
## Supporting APIs:
### Rendering
- OpenGL 3
- OpenGL ES 1/2
- WebGL
- Direct3D 11
- Metal 2.4
### Audio
- OpenAL
- OpenSL ES
- XAudio 2
- AVAudioEngine
## Features
- Basic Windowing Support (Meant to open your window and execute
your game)
- Basic Filesystem (Read/Write) on supported platforms with async
API
- Game assets recognition + preloading
- Primitives Rendering
- Sprites+Animations rendering
- Tween
- Scripting API (Hot reload without reopening game window) + null
dereference check on Windows + Linux
- Easy build system that should not require knowledge in specific
domains
- Tilemap rendering
## What you can do with the current state
- Easily create a single screen game
- Generate builds to every platform mentioned
- 2D games
## Common functionalities it is lacking
- GUI
- 2D Physics Engine
- Particle System (needs more testing and serialization)
- Post Processing shaders
- User threading (means that the API user should not use
core.thread as it is not guaranteed to work)
# Planned Features
The features here planned are in order of importance:
1. Tutorials
1. Particle System
2. Basic GUI
2. Documentations
3. Small refactors on audio engine
4. Shader Transpiler - Write in D, output shaders for every API
1. Frame buffer abstraction
2. Post processing shaders
5. Make the renderer message based
## Warnings
### Starting Point
- Means that the API finally reached a lot more of stability, it
is entirely possible to create games.
### You may find dumb bugs
- As of now, I'm releasing this to make it easily available to
`dub` users. So, this project is still lacking some battle
testing.
### Lack of tutorials and documentation
- The lack of tutorials and documentation are a real problem
right now. This is the next step after the creation of some games
### Build Selector CI
- The build selector CI is still requiring some updates to not
let it get changes from separate branches, it may break on the
release section.
# Getting Started
Run `dub run hipreme_engine:build_selector`. The actual
recommended would be simply cloning the engine on your own since
it may reach some path requirements problems on Windows.
