# Project Aster

A Vulkan based renderer created with Vulkan 1.3 in C++.

## Features (Current and Planned)

- [ ] glTF 2.0 Support
    - [X] Load Vertex Data
    - [X] Load Material Data
    - [ ] Load Animation Data
    - [ ] 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 (Depth Peeling)
- [ ] Shadows
    - [ ] Shadow Mapping
    - [ ] Omnidirectional Cubemap Shadows
    - [ ] SpotLight Shadows
    - [ ] Directional Shadows
    - [ ] Cascaded Shadows
    - [ ] PCF
    - [ ] Omnidirectional Dual Paraboloid Shadows
    - [ ] Shadow Masks
    - [ ] Perspective Shadow Mapping
    - [ ] RTX Shadows
- [ ] Rendering Techniques
    - [X] Forward Rendering
    - [ ] Deferred Rendering
    - [ ] Clustered-Forward Rendering
    - [ ] V-Buffer Rendering
    - [ ] Light Prepass
- [ ] Ambient Occlusion
    - [ ] SSAO
    - [ ] HBAO
    - [ ] VXAO
    - [ ] SDFAO
    - [ ] RTX AO
- [ ] Reflection
    - [ ] ScreenSpace Reflection (SSR)
    - [ ] Cubemap/Probe Reflection
    - [ ] Ray-Traced Reflection
- [ ] Global Illumination
    - [ ] Light Mapping 
    - [ ] Light Probes
    - [ ] Precomputed Radiance Transfer
    - [ ] Voxel Cone Tracing
    - [ ] SDFGI
    - [ ] RTXGI
- [ ] 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