What is the HexNgine? The hexngine is an on-going effort to build an in-house game engine. This engine will then form the foundation for some of the games i will be releasing in the near future, in particular NeoEarth. The engine is being developed using C++ and Microsoft's DirectX API. Version 1.0 of the engine was used to develop the Vehicle Simulator for my 3rd year project at university. Information about the current state of the engine can be found below.

• Library: bare functions class-encapsulated in an easy to use format.
• API: uses the Microsoft DirectX 8.1 API.
• Graphic functions: cull, alpha, shade modes, backdrops, fog, text, viewports.
• Images: loading from file, saving to file, screen capture and blur.
• 3D meshes: x files, primitives, textures, fill modes, vertex manipulation.
• Elands: tile texture, height manipulation/mapping, vertex coloring & blending.
• Camera: range, fov properties and preset styles (orbital, 3rd person, free).
• Basic lighting: diffuse, ambience, specular, range and attenuation properties.
• Sprites: basic manipulation and texturing.
• 3D Lines: vertex manipulation and coloring.
• Audio: load music/sounds, volume, pan, frequency, start/stop positions.
• Input: keyboard and mouse support.
• Files: create, open, close, append, write different data types.
• Collision: basic detection/response, AABB, OBB, ellipsoid and sphere bounds.
• Console: insert commands for realtime manipulation of the engine.