MegaStorm Systems

Core

• Modern C++17 framework built on SDL3, with a modular manager-based API.
• Independent logic and rendering rates, high-resolution timing, delta time and render interpolation.
• Platform-dependent rendering backends: Direct3D 9/11/12, Vulkan, Metal, GPU, OpenGL and OpenGL ES, with software rendering support.
• Custom memory management with allocation tracking and engine-provided STL containers.
• Configurable logging, profiling and micro-benchmarking tools.
• Debug windows with live numeric and string watches, plus an embedded console with contextual auto-completion, quoted arguments, scrollback, command history and unified help.
• CDCv2 asset archives with compression, support for files larger than 4 GB, validation, optional encrypted storage, streaming block access and defragmentation.
• Integrated XML parsing, xxHash hashing and pseudo-random number generation using WELL512, MWC and PCG32.
• Configuration management with a customizable graphical setup launcher.

Graphics and media

• Image, cursor, sprite, tile, font and drawing modules, with render target support.
• Sprite animation, sub-pixel positioning, interpolation, scaling, rotation and blending.
• Image loading for BMP, PNG, JPG/JPEG, PCX, TGA and WebP, with BMP and PNG saving.
• Built-in image filters for color adjustments, blur, distortion, pixelation and alpha processing.
• Particle effects with presets, animated appearance, timed bursts, sub-emitters and collision.
• 2D lighting with ambient intensity, animated point and spot lights, glow effects and occluders.
• Persistent Physics collision sets supporting rectangles, circles, ellipses, segments and polygons.
• Unified audio playback for music, sound effects, voice and ambient audio, supporting WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and tracker modules such as MOD, XM, S3M and IT.
• H.264 video playback with seeking, metadata, audio integration and streamed CDC storage.

Scene system

• Advanced 2D Scene and world management with native Tiled TMX/TSX support.
• Tile, image and object layers, animated tiles and custom object factories.
• Camera control, smooth scrolling, parallax, triggers and debug overlays.
• Scene loading from external files or CDC archives.
• Runtime objects for animated lights, occluders, portals and independent particle emitters.
• Particle collision against tile layers and selected object shapes.
• Configurable overlays for object bounds, shapes, names and triggers.

GUI system

• GUI panels with typed widgets, customizable themes, callbacks and flow layouts.
• Built-in labels, images, frames, buttons, check boxes, progress bars, sliders, text edits, number edits, lists and combo boxes.
• Text alignment and configurable widget appearance and interaction states.
• Controls for in-game interfaces, editors, tools and configuration screens.

Networking

• TCP/IP client/server networking with dedicated or in-application server operation.
• Asynchronous queues, diagnostics and configurable backpressure controls.
• Challenge-response login and optional AES-CTR session encryption.
• Authoritative and non-authoritative modes. In authoritative mode, every user packet passes through the configured server callback using server-derived sender identity.

EditorC64

• Asset creation, preview and editing.
• Particle-effect authoring and live preview.
• Scene particle placement, direct object editing and map movement.
• Universal VTT import with configurable blocking roles.
• Animated GIF, WebP and H.264 import into Tiled-compatible animated tilesets.
• CDC archive management.

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Platform and SDL modules

• SDL3 3.5.0
• SDL3_net 3.3.0
• SDL3_image 3.5.0
• SDL3_mixer 3.3.0

Data, archives and utilities

• libpng 1.6.59
• stb_image 2.30
• libwebp 1.6.0
• zlib-ng 2.3.90
• TinyXML2 11.0.0
• yyjson 0.13.0
• AES Sept-2020
• xxHash 0.8.4
• ltalloc 2.0.2

Audio formats

• libxmp 4.7.3
• stb_vorbis 1.22
• dr_flac 0.13.4
• dr_mp3 0.7.4

Video

• ffmpeg 8.1.3