Task List

[Timothyoung97]

Pending

• [ ] Space Partitioning

  • Quad/Oct tree scene partitioning
  • Initial Support for static objects only
  • Leaf Node Broad-Phase culling per view-proj
  • Per Instance fine-grained frustum culling after

• [ ] Spherical Environment Mapping

  • Essentially a non-hardcoded ambient term contribution
  • https://www.clicktorelease.com/blog/creating-spherical-environment-mapping-shader/

• [ ] PBR Rendering

  • Energy conserving for Diffuse
  • Microfacet surface model for Specular
  • Physically based BRDF (Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function)

• [ ] Shadows for Point Lights

• [ ] Height-map-based terrain rendering

  • Start with high detail CPU-generated mesh
  • Render with multiple TriangleStrip draw calls
  • Optimize with a single Indirect Draw Call
  • Move on to Tesselated GPU-Driven terrain rendering
  • Biome/Height/Steepness based Terrain Albedo

• [ ] Image Based Lighting

  • Physically correct variant of Spherical Environment Mapping

• [ ] Extend Space Partition to dynamic objects

• [ ] Static Animations

• [ ] Skinning