Minote

A work-in-progress experimental hobbyist renderer for personal videogame and digital art projects.

More details about current state and future plans on Trello!

Goals

• Performant rendering of models with high instance counts
• Artifact-free shading and post-processing, approaching path-tracing quality when possible
• Flexibility to rapidly iterate on interesting rendering techniques
• Compatibility with most of the modern gaming-grade hardware
• Portable code, open-source libraries and toolchain

Non-goals

• Texture mapping
• Vertex animation
• Being an engine

Building

Developed on Windows in a MSYS2 UCRT environment. Requires CMake and the Vulkan SDK installed; no other external dependencies. Standard CMake build process, the Ninja Multi-Config generator is recommended.

Libraries used

• volk (MIT)
• vuk (MIT)
• vk-bootstrap (MIT)
• PCG (Apache-2.0)
• SDL (Zlib)
• Dear ImGui (MIT)
• SQLite (Public Domain)
• cgltf (MIT)
• robin_hood (MIT)
• itlib (MIT)
• {fmt} (MIT)
• Quill (MIT)
• GCE-Math (Apache-2.0)
• MPack (MIT)
• meshoptimizer (MIT)
• bvh (MIT)
• Smaller code snippets are attributed inline