Vulkan Renderer application

Building on past projects, my aim here is to create an application for rendering to be used in a small game engine at some point in the future.

Current features:

• Deferred rendering
• shadow mapping (point light)
• skybox
• textured model loading
• physically based shading (cook-torrance brdf with a selection of distribution functions)

Before adding new features:

• sort out command buffers
• sort out render pass, make use of subpasses and subpass dependencies
• sort out attachments
• fix rotations

New features:

• improve shadows (shadow cascades, omni-directional and directional light sources)
• post processing of final image (High dynamic range lighting and bloom)
• basic material system (revise descriptor sets and pipelines)
• Screen space ambient occlusion

This is a long term project (like a lot of my projects). When I finish an important milestone on my other projects, I will return to this one. Conceptually, these features are not difficult to understand but adapting them to Vulkan adds some overhead to development time.

Libraries I am using:

Developing on windows visual studio 2019, C++ 17.

• ImGui
• GLM
• tinygltf and tinyobj
• stbimage

Links to helpful resources:

lear opengl and opengl tutorials Understanding conceprtually in OpenGL helps. Vulkan example, excellent examples of important graphics techniques in Vulkan Vulkan tutorial.