LayaAir3.0 engine function overview
Author：Charley
LayaAir3.0 engine includes three parts: engine code, project development tools, and project release. This article only gives a brief overview of most functions to give developers a preliminary understanding.
1. Engine code
Engine code, in addition to the open programmable rendering pipeline, full-platform graphics engine architecture, next-generation PBR rendering flow, ClusterLighting multi-light technology, Forward+ rendering pipeline, high-performance parallel renderer API access (WebGPU) and other core foundations . For developers, we will introduce them from three parts: general, 2D, and 3D.
1.1 General parts of the engine
- Network (HTTP request, WebSocket request)
- Loading (can load text, JSON, XML, binary, audio, video, skeleton files, image files and other resources)
- ECS component system (component system, life cycle method)
- Scene management
- Events (dispatching, listening, capturing)
- Interaction (mouse, keyboard, screen touch, VR controller)
- Multimedia playback (audio, video)
- Easing
- Browser interface (encapsulates commonly used browser window functions and calls browser window functions)
- Device interface (gyroscope, accelerometer, geolocation)
- node
- Screen adaptation
- Mini-game adaptation (WeChat mini-games, Douyin mini-games, OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, etc.)
1.2 2D engine
- 2D sprites (2D basic display objects and containers)
- 2D view (Scene2D, Dialog)
- 2D animation (atlas animation, frame-by-frame animation, easing animation, timeline animation, dragon bone, spine bone)
- 2D text (text, HTML text, BitmapFont)
- 2D UI components (Image, Button, Label, TextInput, TextArea, Combobox, CheckBox, Radio, RadioGroup, Tab, ViewStack, Clip, FontClip, VScrollBar, HcrollBar, Progressbar, VSlider, HSlider, ColorPicker, Box, List, Tree, Panel)
- 2D UI effects (mask, filter)
- 2D scene inheritance class (runtime class)
- 2D drawing (drawing rectangles and rounded rectangles, circles and sectors, polygons, line segments, polylines, curves, textures and filled textures)
- 2D physics (Box2D)
- Tiled Map
1.3 3D engine
- 3D sprites (3D basic display objects and containers)
- 3D basic tools (3D coordinate system, 3D transformation, 3D math tools, etc.)
- 3D scenes (scene management, ambient light, ambient reflection, scene sky, scene fog, etc.)
- 3D camera
- 3D lighting (directional light, point light, spot light, area light, shadow, light effect)
- 3D mesh
- 3D materials (model materials, particle materials, trailing materials, sky materials)
- 3D textures
- 3D particle system
- 3D trailing
- 3D physics (bullet, PhysX)
- 3D animation (rigid body animation, material animation, skeletal animation, camera animation, timeline animation)
- Custom Shader
- webXR
2. IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
An overview of the IDE is also divided into general modules, 2D modules, and 3D modules for an overview.
2.1 Common module
- Hierarchy management panel
- Assets panel
- Scene window
- Game window
- Console panel
- Timeline Animation panel
- Animation controller panel
- Inspector panel
- Project settings panel
- IDE plug-in System
- IDE Assets store
2.1 2D module
- 2D layout widgets (basic display object nodes, UI components, skeletal animation nodes)
- 2D animation editing
- 2D UI editor
- 2D script management
- Scene inheritance class management
- 2D prefabs
2.2 3D module
- 3D scene editing
- 3D camera
- 3D lighting settings
- 3D animation editing
- 3D particle system
- 3D material editing
- 3D blueprint editing
- 3D prefabs
- 3D physics editor
3. Project release
3.1 Web version released
Publishing the web version is the basic publishing method, which can be used to run on the browser or native packaged publishing.
3.2 Mini game release
It provides adaptation libraries for each mini-game platform, as well as quick release functions for each mini-game platform.
3.3 Native packaging and release
Supports publishing as installation packages for iOS and Android platforms.