Features

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Bjorn Stahl edited this page Nov 6, 2017 · 2 revisions

This page attempts to give an overview of the features present in the engine:

Graphics:

Image loading / saving
Chain-able animations and transformations (scale, rotate, blend)
Shaders
Multipass offscreen rendering
3D models
Selection/Picking
Asynchronous processing
Multi-tiered Scene-graph (transparent save-deallocate, resume)
Text Rendering (with emoji)

System:

Lua scripting (controls I/O routing, window placement, connection management, ...)
Database- driven configuration interface
Process separated management of security sensitive or crash prone tasks
Terminal emulator
Led Controllers
API for custom text user interfaces
Server crash recovery
Script switching (handover in case of script errors)
Script Crash Recovery
Protocol service for Xorg
Protocol service for Wayland
Opt-in external support for: Clipboard-management, Color control, Input injection

Video/Display Management:

Multiple displays
Resolution switching
Power state controls
Multi-DPI rendering
Head Mounted Displays
Low Level interfaces (EGL/KMS/GBM, EGL/BCM)
High Level interfaces (SDL, SDL2)

Audio:

Streaming
Sample Playback
Recording / Capture

Multimedia:

Video decode
Video encode/streaming/ocr

Input:

Multiple keyboards, mice
Joysticks
Touch Display, Drawing Tablet
Special sensors (IMU positional, ...)
Hotplug

Networking:

VNC sharing
LAN discovery / message passing

Misc:

Dedicated QEMU backend
Dedicated SDL2 backend
Dedicated Libretro backend