MInor updates and TODOs in README.

README.md

@@ -8,30 +8,35 @@ A Vulkan based renderer created with Vulkan 1.3 in C++.
     - [X] Load Vertex Data
     - [X] Load Material Data
     - [ ] Load Animation Data
-    - [ ] Load Camera
     - [ ] Support Specular Materials
 - [X] Bindless Descriptors
 - [X] Simplified Descriptor Creation Pipeline
+- [X] Lighting Equations
+    - [X] Blinn-Phong
+    - [X] PBR / IBL
 - [ ] Debugging
     - [ ] Tracy Integration
     - [X] Dear ImGui Integration
 - [ ] Transparency
     - [ ] Sorted
-    - [ ] Order Independent
-- [ ] Shadows v1
+    - [ ] Order Independent (Depth Peeling)
+- [ ] Shadows
+    - [ ] Shadow Mapping
     - [ ] Omnidirectional Cubemap Shadows
     - [ ] SpotLight Shadows
     - [ ] Directional Shadows
     - [ ] Cascaded Shadows
     - [ ] PCF
-- [ ] Lighting / Shading Pipelines
-    - [ ] Blinn-Phong
-    - [ ] PBR
-    - [ ] IBL
+    - [ ] Omnidirectional Dual Paraboloid Shadows
+    - [ ] Shadow Masks
+    - [ ] Perspective Shadow Mapping
+    - [ ] RTX Shadows
 - [ ] Rendering Techniques
-    - [ ] Forward Rendering
+    - [X] Forward Rendering
     - [ ] Deferred Rendering
     - [ ] Clustered-Forward Rendering
+    - [ ] V-Buffer Rendering
+    - [ ] Light Prepass
 - [ ] Ambient Occlusion
     - [ ] SSAO
     - [ ] HBAO
@@ -43,16 +48,29 @@ A Vulkan based renderer created with Vulkan 1.3 in C++.
     - [ ] Cubemap/Probe Reflection
     - [ ] Ray-Traced Reflection
 - [ ] Global Illumination
+    - [ ] Light Mapping 
+    - [ ] Light Probes
     - [ ] Precomputed Radiance Transfer
     - [ ] Voxel Cone Tracing
     - [ ] SDFGI
     - [ ] RTXGI
-- [ ] Shadows v2
-    - [ ] Omnidirectional Dual Paraboloid Shadows
-    - [ ] Perspective Shadow Mapping
-    - [ ] RTX Shadows
 - [ ] Animation
     - [ ] Skeletal Animation
     - [ ] TBD
 - [ ] Particle Effects
 - [ ] Full Path Tracing
+- [ ] Culling
+    - [ ] Frustrum Culling
+    - [ ] Depth based Occlusion Culling
+    - [ ] TBD
+- [ ] Performance Techniques
+    - [ ] Instancing
+    - [ ] Batching
+    - [ ] Depth Prepass
+    - [ ] Level of Detail
+    - [ ] Shadow Atlases
+    - [X] Buffer sub-division
+    - [ ] Resource streaming
+- [ ] Light Effects
+    - [ ] Volumetric Lighting
+    - [ ] Depth based Fog

samples/04_scenes/main.cpp

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ main(int, char *[])
         for (int j = -1; j <= 1; ++j)
         {
             INFO("{}, {}", i, j);
-            auto &model = models.emplace_back(std::move(assetLoader.LoadModelToGpu(MODEL_FILE, "Main Model")));
+            auto &model = models.emplace_back(assetLoader.LoadModelToGpu(MODEL_FILE, "Main Model"));
             registry.get<CDynamicTransform>(model.m_RootEntity).m_Position = vec3(2 * i, 0, 2 * j);
         }
     }
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ main(int, char *[])
         DepthImage *currentDepthImage = &depthImages[currentFrame->m_FrameIdx];
         AttachmentImage *currentAttachment = &attachmentImages[currentFrame->m_FrameIdx];
 
+        // Resize outdated attachments
         if (currentAttachment->m_Extent.width != internalResolution.width ||
             currentAttachment->m_Extent.height != internalResolution.height)
         {
@@ -388,14 +389,17 @@ main(int, char *[])
         vk::Image currentImage = currentAttachment->m_Image;
         vk::ImageView currentImageView = currentAttachment->m_View;
 
+        // Ready the barrier structs
         preRenderBarrier.image = currentImage;
         postRenderBarriers[0].image = currentImage;
         postRenderBarriers[1].image = currentSwapchainImage;
         transferDstToGuiRenderBarrier.image = currentSwapchainImage;
         prePresentBarrier.image = currentSwapchainImage;
 
+        // Write Camera
         ubo.Write(&device, 0, sizeof cameraController.m_Camera, &cameraController.m_Camera);
 
+        // Update all root dynamic object transforms.
         for (auto [entity, dynTransform, globalTransform] : rootNodeUpdateView.each())
         {
             auto scale = glm::scale(mat4{1.0f}, dynTransform.m_Scale);
@@ -406,6 +410,7 @@ main(int, char *[])
         }
 
         // Has been sorted and ordered by parent.
+        // Update all dynamic object transforms.
         for (auto [entity, dynTransform, parent, globalTransform] : nodeWithParentsUpdateView.each())
         {
             auto scale = glm::scale(mat4{1.0f}, dynTransform.m_Scale);
@@ -421,6 +426,8 @@ main(int, char *[])
         nodeDrawInfo.clear();
         nodeData.reserve(objectCount);
         nodeDrawInfo.reserve(objectCount);
+
+        // Write all objects into the node data to be pushed.
         for (auto [entity, globalTransform, mesh, material] : renderableObjectsGroup.each())
         {
             nodeData.push_back({