GitHub - ka-iden/hyper: Mini Vulkan Engine for testing

Caution

I have moved to Codeberg. Repo has moved here.
Repo has been archived not because I won't touch it, but this also does not
mean I will come back to this project any time soon, only that I want to
avoid GitHub unless I need it, such as for contributions to other's projects.

Making myself a little Vulkan Engine using C++.
I named it hyper because I want to make a fast-ish engine (probably not how it'll turn out haha).

Progress

I want to completely understand how the whole vulkan graphics pipeline works, so I will not be using any tools such as vk-bootstrap.

Vulkan Initialisation	The Interesting Stuff	Extras
Window Creation	ShaderEXT Creation	Deferred Rendering
Instance Creation	Eradication of Pipelines	Asset System
Extension Setup	Buffer Class	Multiple Shader Setup
Device Handling	Image Class	Post-Processing
Queues	Mesh Class	Material System
Swapchain	Compute Shaders	Raytracing (maybe)
Buffers	ImGUI Implementation	Meshlet Rendering (maybe)
Textures	Instancing
GLTF Loading	Multithreading
	Mipmaps

Building

You can build this on Windows using the included Visual Studio 2022 solution.
I plan to one day use CMake or Premake, but until then, VS2022 FTW
Builds may be found here sometimes, but I probably won't upload them too often until I am way later in development.

Tools

GLFW for window creation
Vulkan-Hpp as a C++ wrapper for the vulkan API
stb_image from stb for image loading
VulkanMemoryAllocator for memory management
ImGui for a simple GUI

Learning Resources

Vulkan Tutorial for in-depth Vulkan setup
Vulkan Guide for a more high-level look into Vulkan
Vulkan Registry for API usage/spec
- VkResult spec - Good to remember/check when finding errors
Vulkan Docs for more API use/spec
- VK_EXT_shader_object tutorial - Good, but only a 11% implementation rate on gpus
VMA Docs for API use/spec for VulkanMemoryAllocator
GIGD Vulkan Project for a more in-depth look into Vulkan
Sascha Willems' Vulkan Examples for examples of specific Vulkan features
Vulkan Minimal Example for an example of unique handles
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering tutorial - Used this extension early on, good stuff
Buffer device addersses in Vulkan and VMA - Another good extension
Managing bindless descriptors in Vulkan - Not used yet

Licenses

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
GLFW is licensed under the zlib/libpng license, and the license file is in here.
stb_image is both in the public domain (Unlicense) and underneath the MIT License. Their custom license file is found here.
ImGui is licensed under the MIT License.
Vulkan-Hpp is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
VulkanMemoryAllocator is licensed under the MIT License.
tinyobjloader is licensed under the MIT License, and the license file is in here.