This page is used to showcase some software that I have developed in my spare time. They integrate some advanced real-time rendering algorithms for creating videos similar to miku-miku-dance.
These software are listed in chronological order from the latest development to the time when I started learning C++. The list will be continuously updated as time goes on. I hope you can find useful information from it.
2021/06 ~ 2023/03
project - flower: https://github.com/qiutangu/flower
This is a realtime miku fan-made free miku-miku-dance renderer, which render with vulkan api, implemented a simple engine architecture.
Features:
- GPU Dispatch Sample Distribution Shadow Maps.
- GPU Dispatch Rendering Pipeline.
- Bindless Material System.
- Deferred Shading Pipeline.
- PBS Shading System.
- Postprocessing effects.
- Precompute Atmosphere.
Some screenshot list in gallery, enjoy~
It also produced a series of video works, next, let's list the inventory.
- Done in 2022/01: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1HA411C7DG or https://youtu.be/8xkQ8aj9syg
- Done in 2021/12: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FL4y147DN or https://youtu.be/ciw8UOmaFaI
Reference：
- https://github.com/andy-thomason/Vookoo
- https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal
- https://vkguide.dev/docs/gpudriven/gpu_driven_engines
- https://vkguide.dev/docs/extra_chapter
2020/05 ~ 2021/07
project - simple vulkan renderer: https://github.com/qiutanguu/SimpleVulkanRenderer
video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14f4y1a7io
Features:
- Deferred shading.
- PCSS Soft Shadow.
This is the first Vulkan renderer that I wrote. I started learning from Alexander's Vulkan tutorial and went through it repeatedly. After around seven months, I completed his tutorial and began integrating some effects from SaschaWillems' sample projects into my renderer. Over the course of a year, I slowly tried and deepened my understanding of Vulkan.
Vulkan is a very complicated API that requires a lot of practice and hands-on experience to gradually master. However, as a reward, one can learn a lot of knowledge related to GPU hardware during this process.
Reference：
- SaschaWillems's vulkan samples: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan。
- https://vulkan-tutorial.com/
- https://github.com/ARM-software/vulkan-sdk/tree/master/samples
- https://gpuopen.com/learn/hellovulkan-introductory-vulkan-sample/
2019/11 ~ 2020/03
project - openGL graphics: https://github.com/qiutanguu/OpenGL-Graphics
Features:
- Shadow/PBR/IBL/SSAO/Bloom/Instance/Deffered/NormalMap...
By the end of 2019, TheCherno's GameEngine 2D series on Youtube was nearing completion.
Following his tutorials, I was able to build an engine framework and after completing it, I started writing an OpenGL graphics renderer and implemented common graphics rendering effects.
Reference：
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxIZbV_XjAs&t=5s
- https://learnopengl-cn.github.io/
- https://github.com/JoshuaSenouf/gl-engine
- https://github.com/Angelo1211/HybridRenderingEngine
- https://github.com/Nadrin/PBR
2019/03 ~ 2019/09
project - software renderer: https://github.com/qiutanguu/SoftwareRenderer
video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sJ411H7Hk
Features:
- pure win32, no dependency.
- scriptable shader function.
- z-buffer test.
- .obj mesh parser.
- interactive render scene.
- perspective correction lerp.
After learning C++ and linear algebra, it became possible for me to create a software rasterizer. The tiny series courses by ssloy are very suitable for beginners in programming.
After completing all the wiki courses of tiny Renderer, I referenced skywind3000's mini3d project and wrote a Win32 software rasterizer window program. It implements common operations such as rotation, scaling, and translation of models. Finally, I also made a simple Bezier surface editor.
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