Current Features

  • High-Performance Framework: Powered by Unity DOTS, Hewn Core is optimized for speed and efficiency, ensuring smooth gameplay even in vast block worlds.
  • Block Components: Blocks can be decorated with props, plants, rocks for infinite visual combinations.
  • Real-Time Grid Manipulation: Blocks and block components are entities that can be added, interacted with, modified, and removed on the fly.
  • Grid Mathematics & Management:Hewn Core is equipped with intuitive tools and methods to handle grid calculations for features like fog of war and pathfinding.
  • Flexible Coordinate Systems: Whether it’s hexagonal charm or the classic square grid, Hewn Core has you covered.
  • Layers: Hewn Core layers can help organize your world, display or hide regions, and quickly move large groups of blocks.
  • Voxel Mode: Hewn Core’s voxel mode unlocks 3D coordinates to more easily create overhangs and caves.
  • Extensibility: Visuals, grid properties, and other aspects of Hewn Core can be extended, modified, and toggled on and off to better adapt to your project.
  • Lots of Samples: Hewn Core comes packed with a dozen sample projects to guide and inspire.
  • Full Source Code Access: With full access to the source code, you have the freedom to tweak, modify, and truly make the framework your own. New to DOTS? Hewn Core is a great way to introduce yourself to ECS and DOD  concepts.