My experiments with NVRHI, a rendering abstraction & convenience library for DirectX 11, 12 and Vulkan.
If you're trying to get started with NVRHI and the Donut examples are too overwhelming, this ain't a bad place to start! I'd also recommend looking at hello_nvrhi if you need an even more barebones example.
I started doing OpenGL stuff in late 2019 and by late 2021, I got bored of OpenGL, I wanted to use something newer. Learning one of these new APIs raw seemed pretty scary to me, so after a while of trying out BGFX, DiligentCore, Vookoo and others, a fella told me to try out NVRHI.
That happened roughly in April or May 2022, and it looked like this:
(you may find remnants of this wonderful little pentagon in the code)
Right now it looks like this:
We got glTF loading, texture loading with stb_image, and some basic exponential fog. ^w^
Functionality todo:
- figure out how to create a proper depth attachment for DirectX 11
- handle resizing windows
- test fullscreen
- test on my 2012 Linux laptop
Experimentation todo:
- load a BSP for benchmarking
- mesh-based fog
- skeletal animation
Cleanup todo:
- speed up compile times and separate more things into smaller headers
- simplify CMakeLists for this thing
Once some more things are done, I'll be using NVRHI as a render backend for my engine.
Licenced under MIT, with parts of code derived from Donut (DeviceManagerVK.cpp, DeviceManagerDX11.cpp, DeviceManagerDX12.cpp), licenced by nVidia under the MIT licence.