vierkant

• vierkant is a Vulkan 1.3 based rendering library written in C++20.
• win64: linux:

rendering backends

• gpu-driven rasterizer with compute-based frustum/occlusion-culling
• optional support for meshlet-based pipelines (using VK_EXT_mesh_shader)
• pathtracer using VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline, useful for comparing against a groundtruth

features

• load .hdr panoramas as mip-mapped cubemaps
• utils for lambert- and GGX-convolutions used by rasterizer
• glTF 2.0 via tinygltf
  • supports the entire feature-set and all existing glTF2-extensions (transmittance, volumes, irridescence, ...)
• optional/additional support for: assimp
• pragmatic+easy interface, thanks imgui
• entity-component-system (registry/entity) provided by entt

submodules:

• https://github.com/crocdialer/crocore
• https://github.com/nothings/stb (stb_truetype.h)
• https://github.com/glfw/glfw
• https://github.com/syoyo/tinygltf
• https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
• https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer
• https://github.com/skypjack/entt