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# 第二节：引擎架构分层

Layered Architecture of Game Engine

* Sea of Code

## 游戏引擎分层简介

### Layers

* Tool Layer
* Function Layer
  * Physics
  * Animation
  * rendering
  * Camera HUD Input
  * Script FSM AI
* Resource Layer
  * Data and Files
* Core Layer
  * Swiss Knife of Game Engine
* Platform Layer
  * Launch on Different Platforms
  * Operation Systems
  * Platform File System
  * Platform SDK
* 3rd Party Libraries

5 + 1 层次涵盖了几乎所有引擎功能

### Resource Layer

* How to Access My Data
  * Resource -> asset
  * Offline Resource Importing
  * 引擎的核心功能之一是资源关联![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201728116.png)
* Rentime Asset Manager![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201733932.png)
* Manage Asset Life Cycle ![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201737502.png)
  * 生命周期管理
  * 延时加载

### Function Layer

* How to Make the world alive![image-20220330202503555](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201740550.png)
* 每个 Tick 进行一遍所有的系统执行
* 普朗克时间就是现实世界的 Tick

#### Dive into Tick

* tick main
  * tick logic 先世界模拟
  * tick render 再进行渲染 ![image-20220330202900803](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201745848.png)

#### Heavy - duty Hotchpotch

* Function Layer provides major function modules for the game engine
* Game Loop updates the systems periodically
* Blur the boundary between engine and game

#### Multi-Threading

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201751797.png)

难点在 Dependency 管理

### Core Layer

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201815930.png)

#### Math Library

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201756685.png)

* math efficiency
* 倒数平方根很慢，quake 3 有一个近似算的很快
* SIMD ：专门做向量运算的组件，可以同时进行 4 次相加

#### Data Structure and Container

![image-20220330204838371](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201808966.png)

* 需要重新写游戏引擎手动控制的容器数据结构，因为语言自带的托管内存的数据结构所占据的内存会产生很多空洞，内存的消耗是不可控的。
* 出现很多内存碎片，访问效率很低。

#### Memory Management 内存管理

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201812620.png)

* 现代计算机的内存数据读写还是图灵机方式
* 需要有高效的内存分配模式
  * Put data together 数据在一块
  * Access data in order 数据按顺序读写
  * Allocate and de-allocate as a block 按照块状分配内存

### Platform Layer

#### Target on Different Platform

需要做到平台无关性

* File system
* Graphic api , Render Hardware Interface (RHI) 重新定义一套渲染接口
  * Transparent different GPU architectures and SDK
  * Automatic optimization of target platforms
* Hardware Architecture 特定机器优化

### Tool Layer

#### Allow Anyone to Create Game

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201822798.png)

#### Manual Editors

* Level Editor
* Logical Editor
* Shader Editor
* Animation Editor
* UI Editor
* Flexible of coding languagesz

#### Digital Content Creation

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201825712.png)

* 数字资产生产工具
* Asset conditioning pipeline，把资产导入引擎
* tool chains，工具链

## Why Layered Architecture

* Decoupling and Reducing Complexity
  * Lower layers are independent from upper layers
  * Upper layers don't know how lower layers are implemented
* Response for Evolving Demands
  * Upper layers evolve fast, but lower layers are stable

![image.png](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202307201828040.png)

## Mini Engine : Pilot

![image-20220330211847914](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202508291959421.png)

### Simple ECS framework

![image-20220330212201585](https://image-1253155090.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/202508291959532.png)

### Takeaways

* Engine is designed with a layered architecture
* Lower levels are more stable and upper levels are more customizable
* Virtual world is composed by a set of clocks - ticks