Raytracer

Under development!

Features:

• OBJ model loading
  • using tinyobjloader: https://github.com/syoyo/tinyobjloader
• BVH acceleration
• Simple Shading
• Uses YAML format for configuration and scenes

TODO:

• Implement scenes
• Image file writing (PNG/TIFF/Something)
• Materials
• Support for multiple objects
• SAH KDTree implementation instead of BVH
• (In the far future Realtime Raytracing with a scene editor; extend this task to smaller ones when this comes closer)

Compiling instructions

The project is dependent on yaml-cpp. On OSX/Linux you need to install the yaml-cpp package first. On Windows the libraries are already included. Generate the project with CMake and compile.

Usage instructions

Non-BVH accelerated raytracing:

raytracer.exe obj_file_name.obj

With BVH acceleration:

raytracer.exe obj_file_name.obj -bvh

See the example_config.yaml