Vulkan Rendering Engine

This project is a personal learning experience to deepen my understanding of the low-level intricacies of GPUs and graphics programming. It utilizes the Vulkan Graphics API and is written in C++.

Notable features

• Fully realtime lighting and object manipulation
• Cook-Torrance BRDF lighting model
• Efficient GPU utilization
• Skyboxes
• WBOIT
• glTF 2.0 support

Custom libraries

During the engine's development, I decided to create my own libraries for more control and to learn about various topics:

• dml.hpp: Custom math library for 3D mathematics
• dvl.hpp: Custom mesh processing library for gltf model loading (utilizes tinygltf.h)
• vkhelper.hpp: Custom Vulkan API wrapper featuring custom RAII wrappers, a function pointer manager, and more

Dependencies

• Vulkan SDK - 1.3.296.0

3rd Party Libraries used (libraries are in source code)

• GLFW
• ImGui
• TinyGLTF
• STB Image