Ash is a tiny game engine based on Vulkan. I use it as a playground for learning modern rendering techniques, such as bindless, GPU driven rendering, multithreaded rendering, frame graph (render graph), mesh shader, ray tracing, etc.

Directory Structure

📦Ash
 ┣ 📂resources         -- texture, model, etc.
 ┣ 📂samples           -- sample source code
 ┣ 📂shaders           -- shaders
 ┣ 📂src
 ┃ ┣ 📂editor          -- editor source code 
 ┃ ┗ 📂runtime         -- ash library source code
 ┣ 📂tests             -- unit test soruce code
 ┗ 📜CMakeLists.txt

Dependencies

Ash uses the following open-source libraries:

• lightweightvk
• SDL3
• glm
• spdlog
• SG14
• stb
• simdjson
• fastgltf
• OffsetAllocator

Samples

Name	Screenshot	Description
Hello Window		Create and show a SDL window.
Hello Triangle		Render a triangle
Hello Cube		Render a number of self rotating cubes.
Hello Camera		Add fly and orbit camera controller.
Hello glTF		Load and render a glTF file.
Hello Renderer		Load and render a glTF file using renderer.

Roadmap

Take a look at the roadmap for planned and developed features!

Roadmap