The base class for all typical game applications made with ezEngine. More...

#include <GameApplication.h>

Inheritance diagram for ezGameApplication:

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Public Types
using	SUPER = ezGameApplicationBase

Public Types inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
using	SUPER = ezApplication

Public Member Functions
	ezGameApplication (const char szAppName, const char szProjectPath)
	szProjectPath may be nullptr, if FindProjectDirectory() is overridden.

virtual ezString	FindProjectDirectory () const override
	Implementation of ezGameApplicationBase::FindProjectDirectory to define the 'project' special data directory. More...

void	ReinitializeInputConfig ()
	Used at runtime (by the editor) to reload input maps. Forwards to Init_ConfigureInput()

ezStringView	GetAppProjectPath () const
	Returns the project path that was given to the constructor (or modified by an overridden implementation).

Public Member Functions inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
	ezGameApplicationBase (ezStringView sAppName)

void	TakeProfilingCapture ()
	Does a profiling capture and writes it to disk at ':appdata'.

void	TakeScreenshot ()
	Schedules a screenshot to be taken at the end of the frame. More...

void	CaptureFrame ()
	Schedules a frame capture if the corresponding plugin is loaded. More...

void	SetContinuousFrameCapture (bool bEnable)
	Controls if frame captures are taken continuously (without being persisted) or only on-demand. More...

bool	GetContinousFrameCapture () const

virtual ezResult	GetAbsFrameCaptureOutputPath (ezStringBuilder &ref_sOutputPath)
	Get the absolute base output path for frame captures.

void	ActivateGameState (ezWorld *pWorld, ezStringView sStartPosition, const ezTransform &startPositionOffset)
	Creates and activates the game state for this application. More...

void	DeactivateGameState ()
	Deactivates and destroys the active game state. More...

ezGameStateBase *	GetActiveGameState () const
	Returns the currently active game state. Could be nullptr.

const ezPlatformProfile &	GetPlatformProfile () const
	Returns the ezPlatformProfile that has been loaded for this application.

virtual void	Run () override
	Main run function which is called periodically. This function must be overridden. More...

void	RunOneFrame ()

ezTime	GetFrameTime () const

Public Member Functions inherited from ezApplication
	ezApplication (ezStringView sAppName)
	Constructor.

virtual	~ezApplication ()
	Virtual destructor.

void	SetApplicationName (ezStringView sAppName)
	Changes the application name.

const ezString &	GetApplicationName () const
	Returns the application name.

virtual void	AfterHighLevelSystemsShutdown ()
	Called after ezStartup::ShutdownHighLevelSystems() has been executed.

virtual void	AfterCoreSystemsShutdown ()
	This function is called after ezStartup::ShutdownCoreSystems() has been called. More...

virtual void	BeforeEnterBackground ()
	This function is called when an application is moved to the background. More...

virtual void	BeforeEnterForeground ()
	This function is called whenever an application is resumed from background mode. More...

void	SetReturnCode (ezInt32 iReturnCode)
	Sets the value that the application will return to the OS. You can call this function at any point during execution to update the return value of the application. Default is zero.

ezInt32	GetReturnCode () const
	Returns the currently set value that the application will return to the OS.

virtual const char *	TranslateReturnCode () const
	If the return code is not zero, this function might be called to get a string to print the error code in human readable form.

void	SetCommandLineArguments (ezUInt32 uiArgumentCount, const char **pArguments)
	Will set the command line arguments that were passed to the app by the OS. This is automatically called by EZ_APPLICATION_ENTRY_POINT().

ezUInt32	GetArgumentCount () const
	Returns the number of command line arguments that were passed to the application. More...

const char *	GetArgument (ezUInt32 uiArgument) const
	Returns one of the command line arguments that was passed to the application.

const char **	GetArgumentsArray () const
	Returns the complete array of command line arguments that were passed to the application.

void	EnableMemoryLeakReporting (bool bEnable)

bool	IsMemoryLeakReportingEnabled () const

virtual void	RequestApplicationQuit ()
	Calling this function requests that the application quits after the current invocation of Run() finishes. More...

EZ_ALWAYS_INLINE bool	ShouldApplicationQuit () const
	Returns whether RequestQuit() was called.

Static Public Member Functions
static ezGameApplication *	GetGameApplicationInstance ()
	Returns the ezGameApplication singleton.

static ezStringView	GetActiveRenderer ()
	Returns the active renderer of the current app. Either the default or overridden via -render command line flag.

static void	SetOverrideDefaultDeviceCreator (ezDelegate< ezGALDevice *(const ezGALDeviceCreationDescription &)> creator)
	When the graphics device is created, by default the game application will pick a platform specific implementation. This function allows to override that by setting a custom function that creates a graphics device.

Static Public Member Functions inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
static ezGameApplicationBase *	GetGameApplicationBaseInstance ()
	Returns the ezGameApplicationBase singleton.

Static Public Member Functions inherited from ezApplication
static ezApplication *	GetApplicationInstance ()
	Returns the one instance of ezApplication that is available.

Static Public Attributes
static ezCVarBool	cvar_AppVSync

static ezCVarBool	cvar_AppShowFPS

Protected Member Functions
virtual void	Init_ConfigureInput () override

virtual void	Init_ConfigureAssetManagement () override

virtual void	Init_LoadRequiredPlugins () override

virtual void	Init_SetupDefaultResources () override

virtual void	Init_SetupGraphicsDevice () override

virtual void	Deinit_ShutdownGraphicsDevice () override

virtual bool	IsGameUpdateEnabled () const override

virtual bool	Run_ProcessApplicationInput () override

virtual void	Run_AcquireImage () override
	This function can be used to acquire a new window from a swap-chain or do any other update operations on windows before the multi-threaded rendering and update phase starts.

virtual void	Run_WorldUpdateAndRender () override

virtual void	Run_PresentImage () override
	This function can be used to present the final image to a window. It is run at the end of the rendering phase. It can also be used to inspect the swap-chain e.g. for screenshot purposes before presenting.

virtual void	Run_FinishFrame () override

void	RenderFps ()

void	RenderConsole ()

void	UpdateWorldsAndExtractViews ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
virtual void	BeforeHighLevelSystemsShutdown () override
	This function is called after the application main loop has run for the last time, before engine deinitialization. More...

virtual void	BeforeCoreSystemsShutdown () override
	This function is called after the application main loop has run for the last time, before engine deinitialization. More...

virtual void	Deinit_UnloadPlugins ()

virtual void	Deinit_ShutdownLogging ()

virtual void	StoreScreenshot (ezImage &&image, ezStringView sContext={})
	Called with the result from taking a screenshot. The default implementation writes the image to disk at ':appdata/Screenshots'.

void	ExecuteTakeScreenshot (ezWindowOutputTargetBase *pOutputTarget, ezStringView sContext={})

void	ExecuteFrameCapture (ezWindowHandle targetWindowHandle, ezStringView sContext={})

virtual ezUniquePtr< ezGameStateBase >	CreateGameState ()
	Creates a game state for the application to use. More...

virtual void	ActivateGameStateAtStartup ()
	Allows to override whether a game state is created and activated at application startup. More...

virtual ezResult	BeforeCoreSystemsStartup () override
	This function is called before any kind of engine initialization is done. More...

virtual void	AfterCoreSystemsStartup () override
	This function is called after basic engine initialization has been done. More...

virtual ezString	GetBaseDataDirectoryPath () const
	Returns the target of the 'base' data directory. More...

virtual ezString	GetProjectDataDirectoryPath () const
	Returns the target of the 'project' data directory. More...

virtual void	ExecuteBaseInitFunctions ()
	Executes all 'BaseInit_' functions. Typically done very early, before core system startup.

virtual void	BaseInit_ConfigureLogging ()

virtual void	ExecuteInitFunctions ()
	Executes all 'Init_' functions. Typically done after core system startup.

virtual void	Init_PlatformProfile_SetPreferred ()

virtual void	Init_ConfigureTelemetry ()

virtual void	Init_FileSystem_SetSpecialDirs ()

virtual void	Init_FileSystem_ConfigureDataDirs ()

virtual void	Init_LoadWorldModuleConfig ()

virtual void	Init_LoadProjectPlugins ()

virtual void	Init_PlatformProfile_LoadForRuntime ()

virtual void	Init_ConfigureTags ()

virtual void	Init_ConfigureCVars ()

virtual void	Run_InputUpdate ()

virtual void	Run_BeforeWorldUpdate ()

virtual void	Run_AfterWorldUpdate ()

virtual void	Run_UpdatePlugins ()

void	UpdateFrameTime ()

Protected Attributes
ezString	m_sAppProjectPath
	Stores what is given to the constructor.

ezSharedPtr< ezDelegateTask< void > >	m_pUpdateTask

bool	m_bShowConsole = false

ezUniquePtr< ezQuakeConsole >	m_pConsole

Protected Attributes inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
bool	m_bTakeScreenshot = false

ezConsoleFunction< void()>	m_ConFunc_TakeScreenshot
	expose TakeScreenshot() as a console function

bool	m_bContinuousFrameCapture = false

bool	m_bCaptureFrame = false

ezConsoleFunction< void()>	m_ConFunc_CaptureFrame
	expose CaptureFrame() as a console function

ezUniquePtr< ezGameStateBase >	m_pGameState

ezPlatformProfile	m_PlatformProfile

ezEventSubscriptionID	m_LogToConsoleID = 0

ezEventSubscriptionID	m_LogToVsID = 0

ezEvent< const ezGameApplicationStaticEvent & >	m_StaticEvents

ezTime	m_FrameTime

Protected Attributes inherited from ezApplication
bool	m_bWasQuitRequested = false

Static Protected Attributes
static ezGameApplication *	s_pGameApplicationInstance = nullptr

static ezDelegate< ezGALDevice *(const ezGALDeviceCreationDescription &)>	s_DefaultDeviceCreator

Static Protected Attributes inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
static ezGameApplicationBase *	s_pGameApplicationBaseInstance = nullptr

Additional Inherited Members
Public Attributes inherited from ezGameApplicationBase
ezCopyOnBroadcastEvent< const ezGameApplicationExecutionEvent & >	m_ExecutionEvents

Detailed Description

The base class for all typical game applications made with ezEngine.

While ezApplication is an abstraction for the operating system entry point, ezGameApplication extends this to implement startup and tear down functionality of a typical game that uses the standard functionality of ezEngine.

ezGameApplication implements a lot of functionality needed by most games, such as setting up data directories, loading plugins, configuring the input system, etc.

For every such step a virtual function is called, allowing to override steps in custom applications.

The default implementation tries to do as much of this in a data-driven way. E.g. plugin and data directory configurations are read from DDL files. These can be configured by hand or using ezEditor.

You are NOT supposed to implement game functionality by deriving from ezGameApplication. Instead see ezGameState.

ezGameApplication will create exactly one ezGameState by looping over all available ezGameState types (through reflection) and picking the one whose DeterminePriority function returns the highest priority. That game state will live throughout the entire application life-time and will be stepped every frame.

Member Function Documentation

◆ FindProjectDirectory()

ezString ezGameApplication::FindProjectDirectory ( ) const

overridevirtual

Implementation of ezGameApplicationBase::FindProjectDirectory to define the 'project' special data directory.

The default implementation will try to resolve m_sAppProjectPath to an absolute path. m_sAppProjectPath can be absolute itself, relative to ">sdk/" or relative to ezOSFile::GetApplicationDirectory(). m_sAppProjectPath must be set either via the ezGameApplication constructor or manually set before project.

Alternatively, ezGameApplication::FindProjectDirectory() must be overwritten.

Implements ezGameApplicationBase.

Reimplemented in ezEngineProcessGameApplication.

◆ Init_SetupDefaultResources()

void ezGameApplication::Init_SetupDefaultResources ( )

overrideprotectedvirtual

Todo:: Loading Cubemap Texture

Reimplemented from ezGameApplicationBase.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

/home/runner/work/ezEngine/ezEngine/Code/Engine/GameEngine/GameApplication/GameApplication.h
/home/runner/work/ezEngine/ezEngine/Code/Engine/GameEngine/GameApplication/Implementation/GameApplication.cpp
/home/runner/work/ezEngine/ezEngine/Code/Engine/GameEngine/GameApplication/Implementation/GameApplicationInit.cpp

Public Types

Public Member Functions

Static Public Member Functions

Static Public Attributes

Protected Member Functions

Protected Attributes

Static Protected Attributes

Additional Inherited Members

Detailed Description

Member Function Documentation

◆ FindProjectDirectory()

◆ Init_SetupDefaultResources()