Feature List

This page contains a compact version of the current feature list of the PixelLight framework. You can download the complete feature list as a PDF file.

Flexible plugin architecture
Frontends: One for PixelLights own GUI system, a lightweight native OS frontend, one for the UI framework Qt and a null frontend without any GUI involved used for example when only rendering into background buffers
Sound: OpenAL, FMOD and FMODEx
Physics: Newton, ODE and PhysX
Support for many input devices (e.g. SpaceNavigator, WiiMote)
Integration of third-party middleware like SPARK as alternative particle engine, libRocket for HTML/CSS game interfaces
Script: Lua and within the public Git repository are experimental script backends for JavaScript by using V8 (ECMA-262 compliant JavaScript engine), Python and AngelScript

Completely programmed in C++
Well structured and understandable code due to strictly object oriented design
Advanced reflection-, component- and plugin-systems making PixelLight highly flexible, portable, modular and quite universal
Flexible scene graph system which makes it easy to create even very complex scenes
Sophisticated application framework enabling you to "just start" quickly with your application development

Autodesk 3ds Max export plugin that can export whole scenes with nodes, meshes, materials and even morph targets with just one click

Detailed documented code with explanations of parameters and return values, examples and notes
A lot of sample applications

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