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Zodiac Engine (ZEngine) — Documentation

Welcome to the Zodiac Engine wiki — the reference documentation for ZEngine's architecture, systems, and design decisions.

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Page	Description
Engine Architecture	Thread model, per-frame main/render loop, cross-thread communication channels, ECS, asset pipeline, VFS, init/shutdown order
Memory Management	Arena allocator design, allocation macros, scratch arenas, memory budget, GPU memory domains, Vulkan object teardown rules
Rendering Domain	GPU rendering pipeline, global geometry buffers, render graph and passes, RenderResourceManager, shutdown teardown
Asset Manager	CPU-side asset registry, ingest pipeline (mesh/texture/material), GPU material binding, thread safety, initialization contract
ZUI System	Native retained-mode UI — box model, layout solver, interaction system, docking, font atlas, Vulkan renderer
Containers	Arena-backed containers: Array, UnorderedHashMap, HashMap (ordered), String — capacity contract, pitfalls, usage patterns
Roadmap	Feature roadmap and status