Silent Engine

Track decompilation progress here: https://github.com/Vatuu/silent-hill-decomp

Current foundations

• Math wrappers and functions (similar to DXTK but with some usability improvements)
• Input handling
• Savegame handling
• Config options handling
• Window handling
• Asset streaming
• Timestep handling
• Parallel task handling
• Filesystem handling
• Clean logging
• Renderer with swappable backends
• Sound system
• Translator for internationalized scripts
• Font manager
• Various utilities pulled from other projects.

All considerations are being made to make this a flexible, readable, and extendable foundation. Portability is in mind as a top priority for multi-platform support from inception.

TODOs

• The decomp must be farther along before the bulk of the porting work can begin. More basic things like the boot screen and game menus could be ported already with some effort, but it's not worth doing yet while the decomp is in constant flux.
• Must switch to GCC as the compiler.
• Forward renderer.
• Sound system. Need to write a KDC+VAB -> XM converter?
• Parsers for all proprietary game file types.
• Math needs more work.
• Extensive documentation.

Building (Windows/macOS/Linux)

WIP. Ideally the project will be able to cross-compile between all main development platforms.

Install dependencies

The project has the following requirements:

• cmake
• git
• python3

Clone the repository

Clone https://github.com/Sezzary/SilentEngine to your desired directory. Cloning recursively will ensure the following submodules are included in the process:

• assimp
• FlatBuffers
• FreeType
• GLM
• HarfBuzz
• ImGui
• ImGuizmo
• json
• LuaJIT
• rectpack2D
• SDL3
• sol2
• spdlog + {fmt}
• stb
• UTF8-CPP
• VLC

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Sezzary/SilentEngine
git submodule update --init --recursive

Build LuaJIT locally:

cd Libraries/LuaJIT
make
cd ../..

Build the code (Debug/Release)

Available Make commands:

• debug: Runs Debug build configuration and builds a Debug executable.
• release: Runs Debug build configuration and builds a Release executable.
• configure-debug: Runs Debug build configuration.
• configure-release: Runs Release build configuration.
• build-debug: Builds a Debug executable.
• build-release: Builds a Release executable.

Contributing

Too early for this, but feel free to take a look around in the meantime!