VulkanFramework

Focused on multithreaded and distributed vulkan applications and LOD rendering. Development started as part of a semester project

• Framework

  3 level framework

  • wrap: RAI wrappers for all important Vulkan objects
  • util: convenience classes to allocate memory, load textures, wrap geometry etc.
  • app: hierarchical application and launcher classes to run the same high-level application in different modes

• Scenegraph

  simple scenegraph implementation supporting:

  • Transform Node: scale, translation, rotation, children
  • Shape Node: geometry
  • Light Node: color, intensity, location, radius
  • Camera Node: automatically created, not loaded from json

  the scene is described in a json file based on the JSON Scenegraph specification each model requires a name ($DEF)

Applications

• Minimal: drawing a triangle
• Simple: drawing sphere.obj and sponza.obj (external) with 1st person navigation
• Compute: calculating an animated texture usinga computer shader
• Clustered: drawing sponza.obj (external, PBR) using clustered shading
• Scenegraph drawing a Scenegraph based on the JSON Scenegraph format
• Scenegraph Clustered drawing a Scenegraph based on the JSON Scenegraph format with clustered PBR shading
• LOD MPI draws an xyz_rgb file with bvh with 3 processes. 1 presenter and 2 workers
• LOD draws an xyz_rgb file with bvh

Modes

each application can be run in different modes

• level 1 specified in the main function, worker mode currently only used in LOD MPI app
  • Window: a window is created and the application renders to the window
  • Worker: the application renders tp an image and tranmits it via MPI to a presenter
• level 2 can be chosen at runtime using the "-t 1 to 3" argument
  • Single: application runs in 1 thread
  • Threaded: application has a separate drawing thread in parallel to logic, recording and presenting
  • Threaded Transfer: application additionally has a thread for data transfer

Libraries

• SPIR-V Cross for shader compilation
• cmdline for argument parsing
• GLFW for window and context creation
• GLM for mathematics
• GLI for dds image loading
• stb_image for tga image loading
• tinyobjloader for obj model loading
• lamure (bvh) for bvh and xzy_rgb model loading
• jsoncpp for json scenegraph loading

License

this framework is licensed under the GPL v3

• SPIR-V Cross is licensed under Apache license 2.0
• cmdline is licensed under 3 clause BSD revised
• GLFW is licensed under the zlib/libpng license
• GLM is licensed under the Happy Bunny License (Modified MIT)
• GLI is licensed under the Happy Bunny License (Modified MIT)
• stb_image is public domain
• tinyobjloader is licensed under 2 clause BSD
• lamure is licensed under 3 clause BSD
• jsoncpp is public domain