Features

• Vulkan 1.4 Hybrid CPU/GPU-Driven forward renderer
• GPUAddress table enables a 100% bindless indirect buffer system
• Batched indirect instancing via vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect
• Descriptor indexing (bindless rendering)
• PBR + IBL: Cook–Torrance GGX with Disney diffuse; split-sum IBL (prefiltered spec + BRDF LUT, irradiance)
• GLTF asset pipeline enabled (kinda) with multithreading (EnkiTS)
• AABB BVH culling and OBB visual debug
• Transparent depth sorting
• ImGui debugging tools
• MSAA (up to 8x)
• Cascaded shadow mapping
• GTAO
• SSAO
• Ray marched volumetric lights
• Tonemapping (ACES Film)
• Push descriptors
• HI-Z Generation (Depth mip pyramid)
• Lens Flare
• Chromatic Aberration
• Mesh optimizer

Future

-Render graph -SDL2 integration and platform layer -Better asset management (dynamic asset loading, resource handling) -KTX texture format -Full compute async -Proper multithreading (texture loading, cmd recording) -Occlusion culling -GPU frustum culling -GPU batching and sorting -Clustered/Forward+ shading

Screenshots

Controls

• W A S D ‐ Move forward, left, back, right
• Space ‐ Move up
• Ctrl ‐ Move down
• Mouse (Left Click + Move) ‐ Look around
• R ‐ Reset camera to spawn/origin
• Tab ‐ Toggle ImGui editor setting
• P ‐ Toggle rendering stats
• Esc ‐ Exit application

Requirements for build

• Windows 10+
• Vulkan SDK (1.4+)
• Visual Studio 2022

Build steps

Open project file in visual studio 2022 Cmake to be utilized in future, doesn't currently work.

For Bistro asset https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aozfte8k1aewhpl7omx3r/Bistro.glb?rlkey=wmy6ep2yezcs77bidxwqeeiec&e=1&st=pxnwxvpe&dl=0