Features

• Vulkan 1.4 Hybrid CPU/GPU-Driven forward+ renderer
• GPUAddress table enables a 100% bindless indirect buffer system
• Batched indirect instancing via vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect
• Clustered shading
• 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
• Order-independent-transparency (OIT)
• ImGui debugging tools
• SMAA
• CMAA2 (Intel)
• FXAA
• Cascaded shadow mapping via atlas
• Flashlight with shadow map
• Screen space contact shadows (Bend Studios)
• XeGTAO + bent normals
• Ray marched directional volumetric lights
• Tonemapping (ACES Film)
• Push descriptors
• HI-Z Generation (Depth mip pyramid)
• Lens Flare
• Chromatic Aberration (Spartan Engine implementation)
• Mesh optimizer
• Tracy profiler

Future

-A True Render Graph -Full GPU culling with draw building -Runtime asset loading and handling -Dynamic meshes, material and light interactions -Async compute (compute passes during shadow depth) -KTX texture format -Deeper multithreading (texture loading, cmd recording) -Auto Exposure -Grand Turismo 7 tonemapping -Physically based light units -Atmospheric scattering sky with sun -Bloom -SSGI -SSR -Planar reflections -Parallax corrected cubemaps -HBAO+? -Water shaders -Voxel volumetrics -Make TAA work -Improvements to lens flare quality -Ray traced reflections

Screenshots

Controls

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

Requirements for build

• Windows 10+
• Discrete GPU with 6gb+ vram
• Vulkan SDK (1.4+)
• Visual Studio 2026

Build steps

Open project file in visual studio 2026 Cmake to be utilized in future, doesn't currently work.

For Bistro asset (tree is busted) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aozfte8k1aewhpl7omx3r/Bistro.glb?rlkey=wmy6ep2yezcs77bidxwqeeiec&st=ztk7qxun&dl=0