Hi,
I've started a project to port (/wrap) the Esenthel Engine to .Net via C++ CLI in order to use it in C# (and some other .Net languages).
I started this to get some more experience in C++ CLI and in writing a wrapper. But it's also usefull to use it in C# for writing tools in WPF or WinForms.
Currently I've only wrapped the very basic classes and functions, but if this projects succeeds hopefully all classes are ported
And happily the performance loss is also very small (up to now), in the ported 02 - Sky Sample the performance loss is around 1-3 FPS.

Not a very exciting screenshot, since it looks the same as the c++ sample, but nevertheless I'll post it



And here is some of the c# code:



Sorry if the images are too big, is there a maximum size for images in this forum?
Well, I hope it doesn't matter that I posted a non-game project in the showcase...

best regards,
Kevin

that is interesting

Like Esenthel; Interesting indeed.

But ill stick to C++ anyway

Will you release it in public?

Nice :]
Great job!

Thanks for the comments
I'll release it in public when it's finished (or at least most of it), but of course only if Esenthel agrees to it.

I don't think I would have anything against it

I kind of had it in the back of my mind to do this at some point. But honestly, I couldn't find a reason to need it. Would be really nice for making custom tools but I haven't had a specific need yet.

I'm sure there are a lot of people that desire something like this though.

@Esenthel: Okay, thank you

I'll also add the documentation of the EE header files, so that it can be seen via Intellisense like in C++ :

I think the Esenthel tool set should be rewritten using something like this so they can make use of a WinForms UI. One of the biggest limiting factors in the current toolset in my opinion is the UI as it is a bit clunky to use.

I love writing tools in WinForms C#. Great work!

With this you could make something like NeoAxis did, they wrapped Ogre3d, Physx and OpenAl in C# and all the game types are written in C# and their properties available from resource editor and map editor and about gameplay they have a lot of game type and very very easy to extend and create new ones (personaly Esenthel leaks this)

Great work Kevin. Later i need some custom editors and therefore this is perfect.

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Oliver

I LOVE IT!

Well, now I wrapped some classes completly (EE::Vec, EE::Matrix, EE::Display, EE::Application) and I also got a little Windows Forms application in C# with Esenthel working :