EDBR - Elias Daler's Bikeshed Renderer

This project initially started for learning Vulkan but quickly grew into a full-fledged game engine with which I write my games with.

This is a monorepo and contains both the engine (in edbr directory) and various games/test projects (in games directory).

Playable demo of cat adventure game: https://eliasdaler.itch.io/project-mtp-dev

Build dependencies

• Vulkan SDK
• CMake 3.21+
• Linux: whatever SDL2 needs

Current progress

gameplay_latest.mp4

Features

• glTF scene loading
• Basic PBR lighting (no IBL) - support for normal, metallic/roughness maps and emissive textures
• Frustum culling
• Compute skinning + skeletal animation
• Exponential fog
• MSAA
• Bindless textures and samplers (via descriptor indexing)
• Directional, point and spot lights
• Cascaded shadow maps
• Efficient sprite and rect drawing (using batching)
• Text drawing with UTF-8 support
• Custom Dear ImGui backend with sRGB and bindless texture support
• Sound via OpenAL-soft
• ogg music playback
• Jolt Physics integration
• UI system with auto-layout, auto-resize and pixel perfect drawing support

Vulkan usage

• Vulkan 1.3
• No render passes used, everything is dynamic rendering
• Bindless textures (aka descriptor indexing)
• Using Vulkan Memory Allocator and vk-bootstrap to make the code simpler

License

This is a "source available" repository and not open source. Feel free to look around and use code for inspiration. When the time comes, I might release this under a more friendly open source license.