/// <summary>
/// Create the engine with rendering output to a UI window.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="drawingWindow">
/// The window the game will draw to.
/// </param>
/// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">
/// drawingWindow is null.
/// </exception>
public GameEngine(IDrawingWindow drawingWindow)
: this()
{
if (drawingWindow == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("drawingWindow");
}
m_drawingWindow = drawingWindow;
var renderWindow = new RenderWindow(drawingWindow.DrawingPanelHandle,
new ContextSettings {
AntialiasingLevel = AntialiasingLevel
});
RenderManager = new RenderManager(EntityManager, EventManager,
renderWindow);
m_managers.Add(RenderManager);
// not needed in a headless game... I think?
m_managers.Add(new InputManager(renderWindow, EventManager));
}
/// <summary>
/// Initialize core sub system functionality such as audio, the Canvas, PostFX,
/// rendermanager, light managers, etc.
///
/// Note that not all of these need to be initialized before the client, although
/// the audio should and the canvas definitely needs to be. I've put things here
/// to distinguish between the purpose and functionality of the various client
/// scripts. Game specific script isn't needed until we reach the shell menus
/// and start a game or connect to a server. We get the various subsystems ready
/// to go, and then use initClient() to handle the rest of the startup sequence.
///
/// If this is too convoluted we can reduce this complexity after futher testing
/// to find exactly which subsystems should be readied before kicking things off.
/// </summary>
public static void Init()
{
// We need to hook the missing/warn material stuff early, so do it here
Globals.SetString("Core::MissingTexturePath", "core/images/missingTexture");
Globals.SetString("Core::UnAvailableTexturePath", "core/images/unavailable");
Globals.SetString("Core::WarningTexturePath", "core/images/warnMat");
//todo Hmm, data and core mingle a bit here
Globals.SetString("Core::CommonShaderPath", "data/shaders/common");
// This is the path used by ShaderGen to cache procedural
// shaders. If left blank ShaderGen will only cache shaders
// to memory and not to disk.
//todo Hmm, data and core mingle a bit here
Globals.SetString("shaderGen::cachePath", "data/shaders/procedural");
//todo exec helperFunctions
// We need some of the default GUI profiles in order to get the canvas and
// other aspects of the GUI system ready.
Profiles.Init();
// This is a bit of a shortcut, but we'll load the client's default settings to
// ensure all the prefs get initialized correctly
//todo this is also done in the root main
string prefPath = Global.getPrefsPath();
if (Global.isFile(prefPath + "/clientPrefs.cs"))
{
Global.exec(prefPath + "/clientPrefs.cs");
}
else
{
Global.exec("data/defaults.cs");
}
// Initialization of the various subsystems requires some of the preferences
// to be loaded... so do that first.
GlobalValues.Init();
Canvas.Init();
Cursor.Init();
// Initialize some common material data, which we use here and there
GfxData.CommonMaterialData.Init();
RenderManager.Init();
Lighting.Init();
Audio.Init();
Sfx.AudioData.Init();
Sfx.AudioDescriptions.Init();
Sfx.AudioEnvironments.Init();
Sfx.AudioStates.Init();
Sfx.AudioAmbience.Init();
ParseArgs.Init();
// Materials and Shaders for rendering various object types
// todo CommonMaterialData might have to be initialized earlier
GfxData.Shaders.Init();
GfxData.TerrainBlock.Init();
GfxData.Water.Init();
GfxData.ScatterSky.Init();
GfxData.Clouds.Init();
// Initialize all core post effects
PostEffect.Init();
// Seed the random number generator.
Global.setRandomSeed();
}