RayRenderer

No it's not a renderer.

That's just an excuse for me to write a collection of utilities which "will be used for the renderer".

Maintaing and growing the project is much more fun than make it actually renderable. 😅

Changes from old project

The old preject is here

• fixed pipeline --> GLSL shader
• x64/AVX2 only RayTracing --> multi versions of acceleration RayTracing(may also include OpenCL)
• GLUT based GUI --> simple GUI with FreeGLUT, complex GUI with WPF
• coupling code --> reusable components

Component

Component	Description	Language	Platform
3rdParty	3rd party library	C,C++	N/A
common	Basic but useful things	Multi	N/A
SystemCommon	System-level common library	C++	Win & Linux & Android & iOS
Nailang	A customizable language	C++	Win & Linux & Android & iOS
ImageUtil	Image Read/Write Utility	C++	Win & Linux & Android & iOS
XComputeBase	Base Library for Cross-Compute	C++	Win & Linux & Android & iOS
OpenGLUtil	Wrapper of OpenGL things	C++	Win & Linux
OpenCLUtil	Wrapper of OpenCL things	C++	Win & Linux & Android
OpenCLInterop	OpenCL Interoperation utility	C++	Win & Linux
FontHelper	Helper for displaying font in OpenGL	C++	Win & Linux
TextureUtil	Texture Utility	C++	Win & Linux
WindowHost	Multi-threaded GUI host	C++	Win & Linux
ResourcePackager	Resource (de)serialize support	C++	Win & Linux
RenderCore	Core of DizzRenderer	C++	Win & Linux
RenderCoreWrap	C++/CLI Wrapper for RenderCore	C++/CLI	Win
CommonUtil	Basic utilities for C#	C#	Win
AnyDock	Flexible dock layout like AvalonDock for WPF	C#	Win
OpenGLView	Wrapper of OpenGL window in WinForm	C++/CLI	Win
DizzTest	Test Program(C++) (using WindowHost)	C++	Win & Linux
UtilTest	Utilities Test Program(C++)	C++	Win & Linux
WPFTest	Test Program(C#) in WPF (using OpenGLView)	C#	Win

Platform Requirements

Since C++/CLI is used for C# bindings, and multiple DLL hacks are token for DLL-embedding, it's Windows-only.

For Windows parts, Windows SDK Target is 10(latest). .Net Core 7.0 needed for C# components.

To use xzbuild, python3.7+ is required.

Build

To build C++ parts, a C++17 compiler is needed and C++20 is recommanded (defaultly used for gcc>=9 and clang>=9).

For Windows, project uses VisualStudio2022, VS2022(>17.6) is needed for the vcproj version.

For Linux, project uses xzbuild (need python3.7+) with make. Utilities that have xzbuild.proj.json inside are capable to be compiled on Linux, tested on gcc(9~11) and clang(9~12).

ICEs

• gcc7 has compatibility issue with SIMD.hpp
• clang8 has ICE with SystemCommon
• gcc8 has ICE with SystemCommonTest

Example usage of xzbuild

python3 xzbuild help
python3 xzbuild list
python3 xzbuild build all
python3 xzbuild buildall UtilTest

Additional Requirements

boost headers folder should be found inside include path. It can be added in SolutionInclude.props on Windows, or specified by environment variable CPP_DEPENDENCY_PATH on *nix.

gl.h and glu.h headers should be found inside include path\GL.

nasm needed for libjpeg-turbo --- add it to system environment path

ispc compiler needed for ispc_texcomp --- add it to system environment path.

Dependency

• gsl submodule 4.0.0

  MIT License

• Google Test submodule 1.14.0

  BSD 3-Clause License

• boost 1.83.0 (not included in this repo)

  Boost Software License

• fmt submodule 10.1.0

  MIT License

• ghc-filesystem submodule 1.5.12

  MIT License

• rapidjson submodule 1.1.0 master

  MIT License

• digestpp submodule master

  Public Domain

• FreeType submodule 2.13.2

  The FreeType License

• ISPCTextureCompressor submodule

  MIT License

• half 2.2.0

  MIT License

• cpuinfo submodule

  BSD 2-Clause License

License

RayRenderer (including its component) is licensed under the MIT license.