DriftEngine

Examples

Every example in the engine's repository: a complete program for one capability, running in its page on WebGPU where your browser has it.

• Agents Villagers whose routines shelter from the rain and resume, and a crier who asks a model.
• Light in the air A sunbeam through a window, fire and smoke, and a medium that fills the room.
• Animation A figure walking a circle on a blend tree, reaching for a lantern, its pace set in DriftScript.
• Antialiasing sceneSamples at 1 and at 4, on the edges where the difference is visible.
• Audio A courtyard heard from the camera: a scripted bell, a muffled cart, lanterns on the kick.
• DriftCapture A synthesised clip of a room fused into a surface, proposed as entities, that balls land on.
• Characters A character controller in a valley of steps, a slab, a bridge and a pond.
• Chemistry A campfire where everything heats at its own rate, with rain, wind and green wood scripted.
• Cinematic A buggy and a jump, cut by a scripted director, a cinematic as data, and a keyed path.
• Display A video settings screen drawn from what the host says it can do, and why where it cannot.
• DriftLight Seven hundred candles, the sixteen nearest shaded exactly and the rest summed by DriftLight.
• DriftRay Bounced light traced on the GPU, following a wall that changes colour. WebGPU.
• DriftTexture Materials as programs decoded per pixel, one animated by the simulation's clock. WebGPU.
• DriftTR The scene drawn smaller and rebuilt to full size by temporal reconstruction. WebGPU.
• Entities Frogs catching fireflies over a pond, every rule a DriftScript system, with time that rewinds.
• Your first game A complete 3D game: physics, a character, shadows, sound, a HUD, and its rules in DriftScript.
• A 2D game A whole game — paddle, ball, bricks, score, lives, win and loss — laid out in the XY plane.
• A garment on a skeleton A figure walking a circle in a cape: skinned cloth on the device, and a finer mesh bound to it.
• GPU-driven pipeline 2,500 meshes culled and drawn by the GPU-driven pipeline. WebGPU.
• Hierarchical detail A city of 144 blocks drawn at the level of detail each one's distance deserves, crossfaded.
• Input A puck driven by keys, a gamepad or a thumb, a controls screen that rebinds, and rumble.
• Instancing Ten thousand rocks in culled batches, and a batch rewritten every frame.
• Interface A pause menu and options over a running scene: laid out, themed, clipped, in DriftScript.
• Joints A bridge of hinged planks, a door on a motor, a swinging lamp and a breakable chain.
• Worlds from a kit A street built from copies of three pieces, as placements and expanded, with rules in a script.
• A room lit by a lightmap A room lit by a bake: a page read at each surface's second coordinates, and a shadow in it.
• Lights Lamps that cast, a spot with a cookie, a photometric profile and a window that is an area light.
• World-space lines Strokes with width in metres, an antialiased edge, and a buffer rewritten in place.
• Colour and motion Exposure, a colour grade, vignette, grain, a fade, depth of field and motion blur.
• Materials Image maps built in code, metalness and roughness, and the per-draw surface dials.
• Models A turntable that reads glTF, OBJ and STL in a worker and streams them, or a model you drop.
• Navigation Villagers walking lanes in DriftScript, and dogs crossing a square on a mesh built from it.
• Netplay Two players in one match over a lossy link, rewinding when a guess was wrong, staying in step.
• 2D overlay and text Screen-space panels and the built-in font, a keycap prompt, and a portrait in a box of its own.
• Particles Sparks, smoke and motes from pools, emitted deterministically.
• Physics A wall of crates, a ramp of rolling shapes, and a cannon scripted in DriftScript.
• Picking Hover and click: what is under the pointer.
• Ambient occlusion and bloom Ambient occlusion, bloom, and the two settings bloom is useless without.
• Queries and colliders A laser casting rays, a sensor counting what stands on it, and a kinematic wall.
• Ragdolls and cloth A ragdoll shoved down the stairs, a flag in a gusting wind, and a sheet dropped over a crate.
• Recording A still, a clip recorded as it plays, and one rendered frame by frame with its score.
• Saves A garden bed that saves to a server that can fail, loads across a change, and keeps preferences.
• Writable textures A wall a scripted turret scorches, with a clock that runs backwards and burns the marks again.
• Sky and atmosphere A day in ninety seconds: sun, moon, stars, clouds, and lamps that come on at dusk.
• Procedural solids A gatehouse built from closed solids, with windows and a doorway cut by booleans.
• Gaussian splats A rock garden of Gaussian splats, sorted off the frame, with geometry standing in it.
• Sprites A tilemap garden and a gardener who picks its flowers, one sprite pass, in DriftScript.
• Hello world A lit cube turning at a rate a DriftScript rule sets. The one to copy out to start a game.
• Streaming a large world A town far from the origin, streamed in cells by prediction, with walkers that freeze and thaw.
• Terrain A valley drawn as a clipmap, painted and planted by rules in DriftScript.
• Tools An inspector, a console and a profiler over a running game, and edits that undo.
• Vehicles A raycast car on a ring of cones, driven by a DriftScript driver or by you, on tarmac or ice.
• Water The open sea under three winds, a planar reflection, and caustics under a pier.
• Fog and weather Fog, one wind, rain, lightning and puddles that mirror the street.
• XR A headset across a room: its head, controllers and hand read each frame, a lamp on the trigger.