hengle / cactusengine

A tiny ECS engine based on Vulkan and OpenGL

Cactus Engine

A tiny ECS rendering engine based on Vulkan and OpenGL. (You will feel like grabbing a cactus when using this engine.)



This project is working in progress.

Completed parts include:

• Fundamental ECS
• Multi-pass forward rendering (Vulkan/OpenGL)
• Multi-thread rendering (Vulkan)
• Render Graph (Basic)
• Scene saving and reading with JSON file

Currently working on:

• Ray tracing pipeline (Vulkan)
• Render Graph (Advanced)
• ImGui support under Vulkan

Available in heterogeneous branch:

• Heterogeneous-GPU rendering (Vulkan)

Dependencies

• Vulkan 1.2
• OpenGL 4.6
• GLFW 3, GLAD
• GLM
• Dear ImGui
• Assimp 5.0
• Eigen
• stb_image
• jsoncpp
• VMA
• SPIRV-Cross
• Visual Studio 2019

Sample

Model Copyright:

• Crytek Sponza & Serapis Bust from Morgan McGuire's Computer Graphics Archive
• Unity-Chan from Unity-Chan Official Website
• Lucy from Stanford 3D Scanning Repository