{"id":89,"date":"2018-04-26T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-01-11T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:52:20","slug":"vulkan-renderer-progress-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/2018\/04\/vulkan-renderer-progress-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulkan Renderer Progress: Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started working on a Vulkan renderer for Virtual Paradise back in 2016. Halfway through 2017 it could render most static models without any materials or lighting<\/span><\/a>. Until recently I didn’t really put a lot of effort into actually getting it to work. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on it some more and have actually made some progress! ?<\/p>\n

Materials, world light and positional lights are working now:<\/p>\n

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Lighting working with Vulkan renderer<\/p><\/div>\n

And this is how it is supposed to look:<\/p>\n

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The same scene using the Direct3D 11 renderer<\/p><\/div>\n

So, there is still some work to do! A few things that are missing: textures, spot lights, sky rendering, anti-aliasing, normal mapping, particle systems, 2D elements like avatar name tags, shader based skeletal animation, selection bounding boxes, and probably more.<\/p>\n

I’m still getting used to how things work compared to APIs like OpenGL or Direct3D. It’s definitely a lot more difficult to get started (so I took two years to do so ?, although I rarely even looked at it during this time). To take better advantage of this API and use multiple threads for rendering, the main (non-Vulkan-specific) code will also need to be changed, but I think I will focus on functionality first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started working on a Vulkan renderer for Virtual Paradise back in 2016. Halfway through 2017 it could render most static models without any materials or lighting. Until recently I didn’t really put a lot of effort into actually getting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4,16],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-virtual-paradise","tag-vulkan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualparadise.org\/edwin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}