Ravine

Ravine is a graphics framework built with Vulkan:

Used libraries:

• Vulkan
• GLFW
• ImGUI
• Volk
• GLM
• FMT
• Assimp
• EA's Stl
• Google's ShaderC
• SPIRV-Reflect

Features so far:

• Integrated UI with ImGUI
• Loading of 3D meshes and animations with Assimp
• Support for animation blending (WIP)
• Runtime Shader Compilation with ShaderC
• Vulkan wrapping structures for:
  • Logical Device
  • Swap Chain
  • Render Pass
  • Window
  • Virtual Camera
• Vulkan auxiliar functions for:
  • Dynamic (Host Visible/Coherent) Buffer creation
  • Persistent (Device Local) Buffer Creation
  • Texture 2D creation
  • Layout transition
  • MipMap creation
  • Window Resize Events
  • Animation Blending

Included pipeline(s):

• Skinned Phong with Texture
• Skinned Wireframe
• Static Phong with Texture
• Static Wireframe

Descriptor Set Frequencies:

• Global (frame related set)
• Material (material related set)
• Model (instance related set)

TODO(s):

• [ ] Integrate with Ravine ECS architecture
• [ ] Individual update rate for UI (render fixed in 60FPS, blit every other frames)
• [ ] Optimize animations performance
• [ ] Scene Graph (of sorts, ECS based)
• [ ] VkPipeline abstraction and boilerplate for ease of use
• [ ] Resource Manager (integrated with ECS)
• [ ] PBR default pipeline
• [ ] Render Pass with deferred renering
• [ ] Get rid of the 2K lines ravine.cpp file

• [ ] Project a layer of abstraction for DirectX 12.0

  Node Editor for:

  • [ ] Render Pass Graph

  • [ ] Animation State Machines

    Audio (duh)

  • [ ] 2D/3D Sound Sources
  • [ ] HRTF Support

  • [ ] Mixers and Audio Source Pools