Game Engine
I’ve pushed the Space Scavenger project to the backburner while I focus on learning (or is it re-learning?) some Engine, and Graphics programming.
I’m working currently working with the Vulkan Rendering API for my Game Engine with the hopes to aggregate the API to have compatibly with DirectX at some point in the very very .. very far future.
Now, I’ve rebooted a repository that I started in 2021 where I was attempting to learn how to use Vulkan back then; but for a few contributing reasons, the time and effort required to relearn how to use C++, and learn a brand new rendering API was off-putting so it was quickly abandoned. I’ve now rebooted it in the hopes to really grasp how to use Vulkan, and architect a Games Engine, this is what I’ve achieved in the last couple of weeks.
Here’s my active repository to the engine: https://github.com/remusjones/Engine
Now, the gif below is almost how I left the engine in my first attempts to learn VK.
With vertices, we can now render some Vertex lit monkeys.
Add a light direction
Add ImGui integration
Sprinkle in some textures
Add some vertex based lighting to the mesh
Add a texture normal
At this point, I’ve reworked the engine a bit so I can add an input layer from SDL and tidied up some of the rendering pipelines.
I found a repository called ImGuizmo which I added to the repository.
Added a Cubemap and Skybox
And the last thing I’ve added to the project is reloadable render pipelines (this is me modifying the shader, and reloading it without reopening the executable)