VQEngine - DirectX12 Renderer

VQEngine (GitHub) is an open source DirectX12 renderer for prototyping of rendering techniques and experimenting with cutting edge technology that I develop on the weekends.

See Releases to download the source & pre-built executables.

Data-driven (XML) Scenes & glTF Model Loading, HDRI Environment Maps, UE4's PBR model w/ IBL, ImGui UI & debug drawing, AMD FidelityFX CACAO, CAS, FSR1

Features, as of release v0.8.0 (November 2021) :

Graphics

• Physically-based Rendering (PBR)
  • BRDF
    • NDF : Trowbridge-Reitz GGX
    • G : Smith
    • F : Fresnel_Schlick / Fresnel_Gaussian
  • Image-based Lighting (IBL) w/ prefiltered environment cubemaps
    • Load-time diffuse & specular irradiance cubemap convolution
• Lighting & Shadow maps
  • Point Lights
  • Spot Lights
  • Directional Light
  • PCF Shadow Maps for Point/Spot/Directional lights
• HDR Environment Maps from HDRI Haven
• Ambient Occlusion
  • FidelityFX - Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO)
• Anti Aliasing
  • MSAA x4
• PostProcess
  • Tonemapping & Gamma correction
  • FidelityFX - Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS)
  • FidelityFX - Super Resolution 1.0

Display

• HDR display support with scRGB HDR pipeline
• Multiple window & monitor support
• Refresh Rate
  • Custom
  • Auto (1.33 x monitor refresh rate)
  • Unlocked
• VSync
• Alt+Enter Borderless Fullscreen

Engine

• Multi-threading
  • Worker threads
    • Parallel command list recording
    • Culling
    • Asset loading
  • Main + Simulation threads to decouple OS events from the update loop
• glTF 2.0 model loading using assimp
• Shader system
  • Shader cache
  • Multi-threaded shader compilation
  • Shader Model 5.0 (DXBC) & 6.0 (DXIL)
• Automated build & testing scripts

DigiPen Institute of Technology - Computer Graphics Projects

Path Tracing algorithm with Physically-Based Rendering with metallic and dialectric materials

Environment Mapping (Image-based Lighting), Tonemapping - Hamarikyu Bridge B, Tokyo

Deferred Rendering, Screen-space Ambient Occlusion - Shushanna: Player character model used in platformer game Unlit

Hard vs Soft Shadows (PCF w/ 19x19 Kernel)