When I decided it was time to work out a better engine, a couple of years ago, I imagined it could be used for my Animation Master's Degree Thesis project. This is why I named it Psyche.

At that time I was exploring multi-thread programming as well as NVidia PhysX API.
I planned to build a fully modular system based upon a multi-thread architecture and capable to run both on Linux and Windows.

I didn't want to spend too much time in writing things I had already done, so I used SDL for rendering context, NVidia PhysX for physics, AGAR for the GUI system and I reused several parts from the last engine Zenith.

• Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
• Multi-thread architecture (Core threads: Render, Physics, Animation, AI, Application Logic, Synchrnoziation Thread)
• NVidia PhysX integration
• AGAR GUI System integration
• Object Oriented: using resource management systems
• GLSL shading language integration
• Bone Animation System
• Ragdoll Subsystem
• Shadow Mapping
• HDR texture and rendering
• 3DStudio Max 9.0 exporter support
• C3D motion capture data conversion system
• Image filtering system mainly used for post-processing effects
• XML Logger system
• Math engine

Sources are available right below! To properly compile the project I wrote a tutorial to explain how to set up Visual Studio (Windows) and/or Eclipse (Linux).