Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

You can find all releases in our GitHub repository.

v0.1-alpha.3 (17 May 2020)

Changed

  • RAII in shader code

  • RAII in shaders, gpu memory buffers, staging buffers, mesh buffers and textures

  • RAII in descriptors

  • RAII VkInstance

  • RAII Swapchain

  • Removed manager classes entirely.

v0.1-alpha.2 (26 Apr 2020)

Added

  • Create a threadpool using C++17.

  • Added a simple C++17 implementation of an octree.

  • Added event system using boost::signals2.

  • Use boost::bitstream for data processing.

  • Convert octree data structure to vertex geometry (a mesh buffer).

  • Support arbitrary indentations of octree geometry.

  • Added a descriptor set layout for simple octree geometry.

  • Ported Vulkan Memory Allocator library (VMA) to Linux.

  • Added a simple camera movement class.

  • Write spdlog console output to a logfile.

Changed

  • Improvements considering C++ code quality standards.

  • Logging format and logger usage.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that would render every model twice.

v0.1-alpha.1 (12 Apr 2020)

Added

  • Create a CMake file with conan package manager setup.

  • Integrate Vulkan Memory Allocator library (VMA).

  • Integrate RenderDoc support.

  • Use spdlog as logger library.

  • Integrate tiny_gltf library.

  • Mesh buffer manager for vertex and index buffers based on VMA.

  • Texture manager based on stb_image and VMA.

  • Uniform buffer manager based on VMA.

  • Shader manager for loading SPIR-V shaders.

  • Load TOML configuration files using toml11. We deliberately won’t use JSON for this.

  • Vulkan fence manager.

  • Vulkan semaphore manager.

  • GPU info query functions.

  • Vulkan debug callbacks.

  • Vulkan standard validation layers.

  • C++11 std::chrono class.

  • Use glm.

  • Depth buffer.

  • Let VMA generate memory debug logs.

  • Associate internal resource names with memory regions to improve debugging.

  • Use separate data transfer queue for cpu to gpu memory copies if available.

  • Availability checks for Vulkan features.

  • Settings decision maker for Vulkan initialization.

  • Simple command line argument parser.

  • Automatic GPU selection mechanism and -gpu <N> command line argument for preferential GPU.

  • Create windows using glfw3.

  • Keyboard input based on glfw3.

  • Load geometry of glTF 2.0 files using tiny_gltf library.

  • Basic camera class.