Vulkan renderer
A bindless, clustered forward renderer with cascaded shadows, image-based lighting, volumetric fog, and a Slang shader pipeline.
Lumina Engine
A modern C++ game engine with a data-driven editor, Luau scripting, and a Vulkan renderer.
Why Lumina
Section titled “Why Lumina”Data-driven world
An EnTT entity-component world with a reflection system that powers the editor, serialization, and networking.
Luau scripting
Gameplay in typed Luau, with hot reload, an event bus, and editor tooling built around it.
Editor first
A full editor, the scene outliner, inspector, asset browser, and live tools, on the same runtime as the game.
Start here
Section titled “Start here” Installation Clone, run Setup.bat, and build the editor.
Your First Project Create a project from the editor and run it.
The Editor The viewport, panels, and asset editors.
Entities & Components Build scenes from entities and components.
Lua Scripting Write gameplay against a typed API.
Physics Rigid bodies, collisions, and raycasts.