VkCV-0.2.0

0.2.0 (2021-12-16)

** New modules:**

• Algorithm: A VkCV module to use optimized compute algorithms accelerating projects
• Effects: A VkCV module to use pre-built post-processing effects in your projects
• Geometry: A VkCV module to generate basic geometry for rendering without loading a mesh from files
• Tone-Mapping: A VkCV module providing multiple pre-defined options for tone mapping

** New features:**

• Compile shaders from memory with defined headers
• Hardware accelerated ray tracing pipelines
• Dynamic geometry generation
• Interpolation
• Tesselation
• Cube maps
• Temporal upscaling
• Automated camera paths

** Improvements **

• Much more documentation
• Fully refactored API to ease usage
• More consistency
• Less duplicate code

VkCV-0.1.0

0.1.0 (2021-12-07)

** Platform support:**

• Linux support (GCC and CLang)
• MacOS support (Apple CLang)
• Windows support (MSVC and MinGW-GCC experimentally)

** New modules:**

• Asset-Loader: A VkCV module to load basic assets like models, materials and images
• Camera: A VkCV module to manage cameras and their handle view and projection matrices
• GUI: A VkCV module to integrate GUI rendering to your application as additional pass
• Material: A VkCV module to abstract typical kinds of materials for rendering
• Meshlet: A VkCV module to divide vertex data of a mesh into meshlets
• Scene: A VkCV module to load and manage a scene, simplify its rendering and potentially optimize it
• Shader-Compiler: A VkCV module to compile shaders at runtime
• Upscaling: A VkCV module to upscale images in realtime

** New features:**

• Resizable windows
• Multiple windows and multiple swapchains (window management)
• Dynamically requesting Vulkan features and extensions
• Shader reflection and runtime shader compilation (various shader stages)
• Realtime ray tracing
• Mesh shaders
• Indirect dispatch
• Compute pipelines and compute shaders
• Multiple queues and graphic pipelines
• Bindless textures
• ImGUI support
• Mipmapping
• Logging
• Command buffer synchronization
• Doxygen source code documentation
• Buffer, sampler and image management
• Camera management with gamepad support
• Input event synchronization
• Resource management with handles