VuMake: A Terrible Vulkan Renderer

This is a terrible vulkan renderer, barely functioning. This renderer is meant to be prototyping space for my purposes and I would not recommend to use on any project.

Some non-optimal things in this project, that should be avioded in normal circumstances:

• Only header files: to faster prorotyping
• A lot of third party library usage: Im just experimenting with them
• Excessive file count: because I like it
• Global, static variables global context: to make prototyping faster
• Unnecesary ECS: im just experimenting

Capabilites

• ✅ Bindless Resources (via Descriptor indexing)
• ✅ Imgui (docking branch)
• ✅ Textures
• ✅ Push Constants
• ✅ PBR (blinn-phong)
• ✅ ECS (via flecs)
• ✅ Normals / Tangents
• ✅ Normal - Bump Mappping
• ✅ Frame Profiling (via Tracy)

Incapabilities (there is only few)

• ❌ Deffered Rendering
• ❌ Vulkan Sync Abstraction
• ❌ Directional Ligths
• ❌ Point Ligths
• ❌ Spot Ligths
• ❌ Area Ligths
• ❌ Scene-Level Representation
• ❌ Ray Traced GI
• ❌ Path Traced Gi
• ❌ SSGI
• ❌ Voxel GI
• ❌ SDFGI
• ❌ Probe Based GI
• ❌ DDGI
• ❌ ReSTIR GI
• ❌ Surfels GI
• ❌ Radiance Cascades GI
• ❌ Skinned Geometry
• ❌ Animations
• ❌ Tiled Forward Rendering
• ❌ FXAA - TAA - SMAA - MSAA
• ❌ FSR - DLSS - XESS
• ❌ PSO Cache System
• ❌ Ligth Map Baking
• ❌ Compute Shaders
• ❌ Subdivison Surfaces
• ❌ Mesh Shaders
• ❌ Shadow Maps
• ❌ Occlusion Culling
• ❌ Screen Space Shadows
• ❌ LOD System
• ❌ HDR
• ❌ Cube Maps- Sky Maps
• ❌ Tonemapping
• ❌ Bloom
• ❌ Twenty Other Post Process Effects
• ❌ SDF - Volume Rendering
• ❌ Debug View
• ❌ Tessallation
• ❌ Geometry Shaders
• ❌ Shader Editor
• ❌ HLSL Support
• ❌ SSAO / HBAO
• ❌ SSR - SSSR
• ❌ RayTraycing
• ❌ Sub-Surface Scattering
• ❌ GPU Driven Rendering
• ❌ Work Graphs
• ❌ Visibility Buffer
• ❌ Compute Rasterizer
• ❌ FBX - OBJ Support
• ❌ Font Rendering
• ❌ Instanceing
• ❌ Batching
• ❌ Lens Flares
• ❌ Particles
• ❌ Hair Rendering
• ❌ Texture Streaming
• ❌ Variable Rate Shading
• ❌ Decals
• ❌ Frame Profiler - Debugger
• ❌ Displacement Mapping
• ❌ Morph Target
• ❌ Planar Reflections
• ❌ Volumetric Ligths
• ❌ Water Rendering
• ❌ Outline Shaders
• ❌ Contact SHadows
• ❌ Caustics
• ❌ Render Graph

It Uses:

• Vulkan Memory Allocator
• IMGUI
• FastGLTF
• SDL3
• GLM
• flecs
• SLang
• Tracy
• Volk

Vulkan Notes

• TODO

How to build and run

• have vulkan sdk
• have some IDE that CMAKE support
• clone the repo
• open the project as a CMAKE project
• hit the build button
• done