bakery will be an asset precompiler for game developers. Offline preprocessing provides developers with two major benefits:

• Load times can improve, since heavy lifting is done offline
• Since only the precompiler needs to import assets from their 'native' formats (e.g. .3ds, .png, .mp3), only the precompiler needs to link against specialized libraries for doing so (e.g. assimp, avcodec). This makes compiling cross-platform less of a headache.

How It Works

Bakery consists of two pieces: an extensible offline precompiler, written in Python, and an online runtime, written in pure (no-dependency) C++. The precompiler produces raw asset files, which the runtime can parse and load. Assets are generally stored in a raw binary format that allows the game to load the object by memcpying C++ objects.

Extensions can extend the pipeline by

• Adding a new intermediate asset type
• Importing from a new format
• Creating a preprocessing step as part of the build chain

Setting Up

sudo make install