Features

• Vulkan 1.4 GPU-Driven renderer
• Opaque Visibility buffer deferred with meshlet culling through mesh shaders
• GPUAddress table enables a 100% bindless indirect buffer system
• GPU culling and draw building
• Clustered shading
• Descriptor indexing (bindless rendering)
• PBR + IBL: Cook–Torrance GGX with Disney diffuse; split-sum IBL (prefiltered spec + BRDF LUT, irradiance)
• Multithreaded job system (EnkiTS)
• Retained mode render graph
• Async compute with multithreaded secondary recording
• GLTF asset pipeline
• Debug draw view (OBBs, wireframe, etc)
• Forward+ transparent rendering
• Order-independent-transparency (OIT)
• ImGui debugging tools
• SMAA
• CMAA2 (Intel)
• FXAA
• Cascaded shadow mapping via atlas
• Flashlight with shadow map
• Screen space contact shadows (Bend Studios)
• Visibility bitmask ambient occlusion + bent normals (XeGTAO based)
• Ray marched directional volumetric lights
• Tonemapping (ACES Film)
• Push descriptors handling runtime render targets
• HI-Z Generation (Depth mip pyramid)
• Lens Flare
• Chromatic Aberration (Spartan Engine implementation)
• Bloom (Spartan Engine implementation)
• Mesh optimizer
• Tracy profiler

Future

-Ray traced reflections -Runtime asset loading and handling -Dynamic meshes, material and light interactions -KTX texture format -Auto Exposure -Grand Turismo 7 tonemapping -Physically based light units -Atmospheric scattering sky with sun -SSGI -SSR -Planar reflections -Parallax corrected cubemaps -Water shaders -Voxel volumetrics -Make TAA work well -Improvements to lens flare quality -RTGI

Screenshots

Controls

• W A S D ‐ Move forward, left, back, right
• Space ‐ Move up
• Ctrl ‐ Move down
• Mouse (Right Click + Move) ‐ Look around
• R ‐ Reset camera to spawn/origin
• Tab ‐ Toggle ImGui editor setting
• P ‐ Toggle ImGui stats profiling window
• F ‐ Toggle flashlight
• Esc ‐ Exit application

Requirements for build

• Windows 10/11
• Miniumum GPU 20 series+ or RDNA2+
• Vulkan SDK (1.4+)
• Visual Studio 2026

Build steps

Open project file in visual studio 2026 Cmake to be utilized in future, doesn't currently work.

For Bistro asset (tree is busted) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aozfte8k1aewhpl7omx3r/Bistro.glb?rlkey=wmy6ep2yezcs77bidxwqeeiec&st=ztk7qxun&dl=0