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Project Aster

• Features (Current and Planned)

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
• 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