lencripe / rust-renderer

A minimal renderer with Rust and Vulkan

rust-renderer (placeholder)

Developed to learn Rust and to have a framework for experimenting with modern rendering techniques

Features

• Path tracer based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend
• Basic PBR rendering
• Bindless GPU resources
• Experimental high level render graph
• Vulkan using ash
• Shader reflection
• Live shader recompilation

Building

You need Rust for building

Build and run the project with cargo run --release

Note: requires a GPU with raytracing support, e.g Nvidia RTX series

Note: only tested on Windows

Controls

• SPACE - toggle between path tracing and rasterization
• W/A/S/D - move the camera
• MOUSE + RMB - rotate the camera