Implementation Log

This is a personal project to build a rendering engine in WebGPU from scratch. After taking a few computer graphics courses in OpenGL, I wanted to learn a more modern graphics API and implement graphics techniques I was interested in.

So far I have implemented physically based lighting with point lights, and I plan to add:

• Environment maps/image based lighting
• Glass / transparent PBR material

BSDF / Physically based Rendering with Point Lights

Camera control with Mouse

Window Resizing

Tiny Obj Loading + Texturing

Basic Shading

2D to 3D

Buffers and Uniforms

Render Pipeline configuration

• Vertex pipeline, primitive pipeline, vertex/fragment shaders

Environment Setup

• Conigure with CMake, Visual Studio, and C++, Dawn.
• Set up adapter, device, command queue.
• Create a window with GLFW.
• Refactor with C++ Wrapper Configuration: https://github.com/eliemichel/WebGPU-Cpp

Dependencies

• wgpu
• glfw
• glm
• tiny_obj_loader
• stb

References

• https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/index.html
• https://learnopengl.com/PBR/Lighting

Models and textures

• https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lidded-ritual-ewer-guang-c2898500387d40678d26d15d12809608
• https://3d.si.edu/object/3d/triceratops-horridus-marsh-1889:d8c623be-4ebc-11ea-b77f-2e728ce88125
• https://3d.si.edu/object/3d/pair-blue-sneakers-worn-wellington-webb-while-campaigning:3ab80a3a-6099-48f7-9861-c454daa048ef