Engine Used?

[dustindps]

Did a search, sorry if repost. What engine was used to make Rimworld? What Language?

[GC13]

It uses the Unity engine. And from some guesses in the IRC channel today, it's assumed to be written in C#.

[Tynan]

Unity and C#.

I don't use most of the Unity gameplay object and component system, though, because it is too heavy for the thousands of objects in RimWorld. The object framework is custom-coded and fixed-timestep.

[dustindps]

Awesome! I didn't know that Unity was a good 2D engine.

[Ewan K]

Unity and C#.

I don't use most of the Unity gameplay object and component system, though, because it is too heavy for the thousands of objects in RimWorld. The object framework is custom-coded and fixed-timestep.

Interesting. Which parts of the component system do you use?

[Tynan]

Sound emitters. That's about it, really. The rest of the game is rendered out of a root object that calls every other method in my engine-within-an-engine.

[Noxmutagen]

Sound emitters. That's about it, really. The rest of the game is rendered out of a root object that calls every other method in my engine-within-an-engine.

What other games do this? Dwarf Fortress?

[Tynan]

No, DF is coded from scratch. I don't think it even has sound.

[Noxmutagen]

so is your engine the one calculating the shots and stuff in combat?

[Tynan]

Yes, of course. It took a long time to get all that stuff working.

[Noxmutagen]

Yes, of course. It took a long time to get all that stuff working.

so unity supports adding in your own custom engines? kinda like how nvidia PhysX engine doesnt come with sound, and you gotta actually buy their own sound engine on TOP of the physics engine, so you plugged your own engine in using C#? Did it support C++ or is there limitations to Unity? just wonderin.

[deadmeat3gaming]

Awesome! I didn't know that Unity was a good 2D engine.

Unity is probably better for the 2D than 3D games

[Tynan]

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[JuliaEllie]

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