VYB

The next-generation game creation environment for designers, developers, artists, worldbuilders, and AI-assisted creators.

What VYB is

VYB is designed to become an integrated creative operating environment for building games, simulations, interactive worlds, cinematic experiences, AI-driven environments, mixed reality applications, and future spatial computing projects.

This repository is an early, production-grade scaffold for a studio platform. It is intentionally honest about what is implemented now vs. what is planned next.

Long-term vision (high level)

VYB’s architecture targets an experience that can eventually exceed Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, Roblox Studio, and current proprietary studio tooling in:

• graphical fidelity (WebGPU-first + native renderer paths),
• interface quality and workflow intelligence,
• extensibility (plugins and integrations),
• asset/import ecosystems,
• and documentation/developer experience.

Current status

• Phase 0 complete: studio shell, typed architecture, docs, tests, plugin manifests.
• Phase 1 complete: real project I/O (Tauri), asset scanning, scene persistence, hierarchy/inspector editing.
• Phase 2 complete: WebGPU viewport renderer with canvas fallback, grid, mesh proxies, frame stats.
• Phase 3 complete: ECS runtime tick, TS/JS script bridges, play/pause/stop in editor.
• Phase 4 complete: Godot/raw import translators, .vybmat materials, import preview and Tauri import execution.
• Phase 5 complete: Visual scripting node editor, behavior graph runtime, shader graph WGSL compiler.
• Phase 6 complete: Physics/animation/audio/UI/network runtime + vibrant launcher/editor UI.
• Phase 7 complete: Build pipeline, staged exports, deployment manifests, CI artifacts.
• Phase 8 complete: Local AI assistant with import/build/scene/script task drafts.

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

   npm install

2. Run the studio UI (in dev web context):

   npm run dev

3. (Optional) Run the desktop shell when Rust toolchain is available:

   npm run tauri:dev

Development commands

• UI dev server: npm run dev
• Type check: npm run lint
• Tests: npm test

Documentation map

See:

• docs/01_VISION.md
• docs/02_ARCHITECTURE.md
• docs/03_PROJECT_FORMAT.md
• docs/04_IMPORT_COMPATIBILITY.md
• docs/05_RENDERING_PIPELINE.md
• docs/06_ASSET_PIPELINE.md
• docs/07_SCENE_SYSTEM.md
• docs/08_COMPONENT_SYSTEM.md
• docs/09_PLUGIN_SYSTEM.md
• docs/10_AI_ASSISTED_WORKFLOWS.md
• docs/11_BUILD_SYSTEM.md
• docs/12_HARDWARE_SUPPORT.md
• docs/13_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md
• docs/14_CONTRIBUTING.md
• docs/15_ROADMAP.md
• docs/16_SECURITY.md
• docs/17_TESTING.md
• docs/18_RELEASE_STRATEGY.md

Disclaimer

VYB is in early development. This repository is a foundation scaffold and does not yet claim full engine compatibility, import/runtime parity, or production feature completion compared to existing platforms.