ZenRen

High performance DirectX11 viewer/renderer for Gothic assets (VDF or single files).
Attempts to closely recreate original G1/G2-AddOn look and lighting.

Download (Windows)

• https://github.com/Katharsas/ZenRen/releases/latest

Currently supports

• Worldmesh (ZEN)
  • Static Light
    • Indoor: Lightmaps
    • Outdoor: Per-Vertex Baked Brightness
• Static Objects (VOBs, MOBs)
  • Static Light
    • Indoor: Static Voblight Accumulation (Color & Direction, Visibility Ray Testing)
    • Outdoor: Per-Vob Color from Ground Face
• Sky
  • Time-Of-Day Skylight
  • Sky Layer Animation
• Asset File Formats
  • Level: VDF
  • Objects: VDF
  • Textures: VDF, TGA, PNG

Features

• Frame Limiter
• Forward Renderer
  • Linear Colors
  • MSAA
  • Transparency Multisampling (Alpha-To-Coverage with Sharpening)
  • Resolution Scaling (up to 4x SSAA equivalent)
• Postprocessing
  • Tonemapping
  • Gamma, Brightness, Contrast
• UI
  • High DPI Aware

TODO

• Effects
• Dynamic Lights
• Dynamic Objects
  • Light Updates
• Transparent Surfaces (Water)
• Distance Fog
• Sky Celestials (Sun, Moon)
• Asset File Formats
  • Level: ZEN (outside VDF), OBJ
  • Objects: 3DS, OBJ
• Loading single objects without level

Non-Goals

• Animations
  • Morph-Meshes
  • Skeletal Animations

Options

  --level     Level ZEN name.
                Example: "WORLD.ZEN"
				 
  --vdfDir    Root dir containing VDFs to be loaded (will check all subfolders).
                Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic"
				 
  --assetDir  Root dir containing additional assets (will check all subfolders).
                Currently supports .TGA files.
                Example: ".\my-mod-assets"

Screenshots

License

Copyright (c) 2024 - Jan Mothes

This project's first-party code is "source available" for now.

Third-Party

• lib/DirectXMath - MIT
• lib/DirectXTex - MIT
• lib/g3log - Public Domain / Unlicense
• lib/imgui - MIT
• lib/magic_enum - MIT
• lib/octree_attcs - MIT
• lib/tinyobj - MIT
• lib/ZenKit - MIT