Vulkan GPU Particle System C++
Features
- Vulkan
- C++
- GPU programming
- Dynamic Lighting
- Different Models
This project was to get a particle system on the GPU using Vulkan with real time dynamic lighting. The particles move about and form different shapes using a signed distance function. This was used to get the closest triangle on the model and then barycentric coordinates were used to get a random point on the triangle. The particle system was passed as vertex inputs into the vertex shader but n used a storage buffer for the compute and fragment shader.
Dynamic lighting was implemented with the use of PBR. A roughness and metallic value was passed in and the colour value of the particles were used to illuminate the plane.
What I Learned
- Consolidated my understanding of C++
- Introduced me to Vulkan
- I learned a lot about the different aspects of GPU programming
- Improved my understanding of 3D maths
- Physically Based Rendering
- Forced me to learn about spatial data structures.
Gameplay
Links
This game was made for educational purposes, for me show my improvement as a games developer and so this was not made for any commercial purposes.
Project Details
Date: May 1, 2020
Author: Lewis Bond
Categories: project
Tagged: Vulkan, CTP, UWEGames, C++, University
Client:
Website: https://github.com/lbondi7
