A library that implements world's favorite pinball simulator.
Today we have nice game engines like Unity or Godot that support C# out of the box. The goal of VPE is to easily provide what Visual Pinball makes so great to other "current gen" engines, while keeping backwards-compatibility.
Visual Pinball roughly consists of the following sub systems, which VPE will fully support:
- File format, i.e. reading and writing
.vpxfiles - A data API, i.e. editing properties of all the game items
- Media handling, i.e. dealing with sounds and images
- A game loop, which includes:
- Rigid body physics, i.e. movement based on mass and gravity
- Collision detection
- Animations
- A transformation API, i.e. something that tells the renderer what to update
- The scripting engine
The "core" of VPE (i.e. the VisualPinball.Engine project) is a pure C# port
of the original Visual Pinball. It has no dependencies to any proprietary third
parties, and provides everything but the rendering engine. It is free and open
source.
We're currently focusing on Unity as a game engine, but anything about Unity applies to Godot or other C#-based engines as well. C# allows extending third party classes, which means we can ship another DLL that just by including in your application will add functionality to VPE.
More concretely, we include a bridge library that allows you to render VPE in Unity. More on that here.
VPE is still under development, so there is nothing much to test. If you're a developer and you'd like to contribute, let us know, we have a Discord channel.
There are a few videos in the VPF thread, where you can discuss as well.
Special thanks go to JetBrains for their awesome IDE and support of the Open Source Community!
GPLv2, see LICENSE.