Baal

A performant and customizable renderer built using the Vulkan API.

Goals

• To explore graphics programming and learn about the major topics in the medium.
• Develop a high-performance and customizable renderer, that could be used for game and simulation engines.

Practical Outcomes

These are the outcomes that I want from this renderer:

• Ability to load/unload 3d models
• Cubemaps
• Post-process effects
• Ability to load/unload Textures
• Create and use GLSL shaders
• MVP for the application/use-case of the Mjolnir Math Library
• Multi-sampling
• Double/Triple buffering
• Exploring PBR
• Lighting
• Simple implementation of ImGUI
• A go to resource for my Graphics explorations

Screenshots

Here are screenshots of meshes loaded into the renderer.

Note: Animated GIFs do no reflect the renderer's FPS.

Dependancies

Dependancies should be present in an adjascent directory to the parent directory of this project, I don't want to use submodules for this work flow, at this time.

External Libraries

• https://vulkan.lunarg.com/
• https://github.com/glfw/glfw
• https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang
• https://github.com/tinyobjloader/tinyobjloader
• https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/VulkanMemoryAllocator

My Libraries

• https://github.com/Malik-Allen/Mjolnir