# Project Aster

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

## Features (Current and Planned)

- [ ] Forward Rendering
- [ ] glTF 2.0 Support
    - [ ] Load Vertex Data
    - [ ] Load Material Data
    - [ ] Load Animation Data
    - [ ] Load Camera
    - [ ] Load Lights
    - [ ] Support Specular Materials
- [ ] Bindless Descriptors
- [ ] PBR
- [ ] IBL
- [ ] Shadows v1
    - [ ] Omnidirectional Cubemap Shadows
    - [ ] Spot Lights
    - [ ] Directional Shadows
    - [ ] Cascaded Shadows
    - [ ] PCF
- [ ] Simplified Descriptor Creation Pipeline
- [ ] Deferred Rendering
- [ ] Ambient Occlusion
    - [ ] SSAO
    - [ ] HBAO
    - [ ] VXAO/SDFAO
    - [ ] RTX AO
- [ ] Reflection
    - [ ] ScreenSpace Reflection (SSR)
    - [ ] Cubemap/Probe Reflection
- [ ] Forward+ Rendering
    - [ ] Global Illumination
        - [ ] 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