H4engine : Strong Simple and Scalable C++ architecture designed for fast development and prototyping
H4 engine provide a full "ready to run" framework to begin development and prototyping of your 3D applications.
A Fully customisable level editor provided with source code
- Instantaneous "Click and Play" from editor
- Properties grid with Class array edition
- Graphical State machine editor
- Simulation loop module
- Entities tree
- Networked Level Edition (Beta) using openTNL
Start pack of Fully dynamic loadable entities or modules (see examples and documentation)
- FPS explorer
- Third Person Character controler
- Triggers
- Static Object
- Rigid bodies
- etc...
Customisable Rendering Pipeline :
- User customisable pixel shaders and vertex shader directely refreshable from editor
- Deferred HDR ligthing
- ambient
- omni
- spot
- neon
- PostProcess,
- Customisable Cascaded shadow mapping
- Screen Space Ambient Oclusion
- Scene graph API
- Dynamic Lazy octree
- Automatic Hardware instancing
- Skinning with Dual Quaternion
- Automatic LOD generation (in progress)
- Directionnal antialising
Collision and Physic module using PhysX from NVIDIA 
- Fully parallelised Physic simulation using GPU on Nvidia hardware
- Character Actor
- capsules
- AABB
- Rigid bodies
Integred Sound module using Fmod
- 3D and 2D sounds
- Musics
- Doppler effects
Easy Scalable Multithreading 
- Job manager with Automatic load balancing
- "Built in" Graphical Hierarchical Multithread Profiling
- Up to 32 core and associated hardware thread
Graphical State machine using fast expression interpreter for fast prototyping of animations and behaviours
- Powerfull Multithreaded animation system
- Motion graph with state machine
- Blending, mixing, postprocess
- Dual Quaternion Skinning
Runtime introspection with the H4ClassManager
- Class and references management
- Recursive class properties management
- Dynamic Array support
- Function call support
Network programming
- High Level Entity replication
- Internet lobby application
Strong referencing and management of data resource :
- Package Files builder
- HTPP file loader
External tools :
- 3DSMAX plugins to export to H4 file format
- Motion builder FBX file converter to H4 format
- Dual Quaternion Skinning visualisation plugin for 3DSMAX