RasterIver

RasterIver, a Rendering Engine

Roadmap

By End of December, 2025

• [x] Basic texture support finished on November 26, 2025

  • using custom image parser, PitMap
  • objects can have at least 1 texture
  • no animated textures yet
  • only BMP files
  • no bumpmap, normalmap, distortionmap, et cetera

• [ ] Animated textures support

  • similar to Minecraft's where a texture repeats itself inside itself and you just offset the y coord based off the frame

By End of January, 2026

• Normal maps

By End of February, 2026

• MTL support

By End of March, 2026

• [ ] Rasterizer will use some sort of tree system for performance

  • quad tree, K-D tree, et cetera

• [ ] Custom TTF parser, SourParse, will be implemented

  • GPU font renderer

• [ ] Animated textures will support GIF

By End of April, 2026

• Font renderer will use more efficent method
  • maybe polygons?
  • anything but the last implementation of ray-line intersection

By End of June, 2026

• PNG support
• JPEG support