VulkanRenderer

C++17 Game Engine built on top of the Vulkan Graphics API

Used as a testing ground for learning various software techniques and solutions for engineering problems.

Undergone heavy revision since July 2017 and is still under construction.

Major Features

• Terrain Renderer, Heightmap based with automatic level of detail adjustment using a Quadtree and memory pool for quick allocation.
• Procedural Noise Texture Generator, Visual node graph using the FastNoiseSIMD library. An easy to use tool for creating custom procedural terrain. Implements saving and loading with json files. Uses Dear-ImGUI
• Windows and Linux Support, Cross platform.
• Multitasking System, (WIP) Thread pool based tasking system that enables task based multithreading of various jobs.
• Frame Graph, (WIP) Takes all rendering operations and resources and abstracts into a single graph, enabling simpler code and reasoning about how a frame is rendered.

Build Process

Requirements: C++17 Compiler, CMake 3.11, Vulkan 1.1 SDK

git clone https://github.com/cdgiessen/VulkanRenderer
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../VulkanRenderer

Screenshots

General view from a landscape

Visual Node Graph Example

Terrain Renderer in wireframe mode to show LOD

Plans

I plan to include the aforementioned Multitasking system and Frame Graph as well as the following:

• Depth Prepass
• Forward+ lighting
• Shader creator - allowing easy shader creation
• glTF model loading
• Terrain scatter/futher terrain details
• Procedural Sky Shader
• Integrate Bullet Physics