Sigma

Sigma is first and foremost a rendering engine architecture pratice ground, and a rendering feature experiment engine second. Its goal is for me to practice tasks that are not usually part of my job.

For the moment, it is Windows 10 & D3D12 only.

Timeline

Basis

• VS project setup
• Command line arguments
• External configuration
• Initialize Window
• Initialize DirectX
  • Debug layer
• Swapchain management
  • Windowed/Bordless fullscreen support
  • 2 buffers, waitable object
  • resolution/adapter selection
• Error handling
• Pix integration
• File loading?
• Jobs/Multithreading
• CPU Memory management
• Console commands/IMGUI

Triangle/Quad

• Pipeline state object
  • Shader loading
  • Caching?
• Resource binding
  • Resource transitions
  • Descriptor management
• Frame graph?
• GPU Memory management
• Basic Triangle/Quad helpers

3D Engine

• Scene Description
  • Geometry (LOD)
  • Materials
  • Textures
• Passes Definitions/Frame graph?
• Culling
• Opaque Deferred Lighting
• Forward transparent lighting
• Shadows
• Post Filters