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Rostkatze

An offspring of the gfx-rs project, implementing a C++ Vulkan driver on top of D3D12. Currently, lacks a lot functionality but can run quite a few Vulkan samples already.

Missing pieces

• Pipeline barriers
• RenderPasses
• Secondary command buffers
• Simultaneous command buffer submission
• Queries
• Validation of the current implementation(!)
• Resource Tier 1 support

... (100+ bullet points)

Running

To able to use it latest Windows 10 Update is required (atm) and a GPU with Resource Tier 2 hardware (no NVIDIA!).

The library can be built with VS 2017 (C++17 support). In order to use the rostkatze ICD set the VK_ICD_FILENAMES variable to the path of manifest/rostkatze.json. Adjust the library path field in the manifest to the absolute path of the rostkatze shared library.

Good luck!

"Working" samples (SaschaWillems)

• glTF-PBR
• triangle
• pipelines
• texture
• texturecubmap
• texturearray
• texturemipmapgen
• mesh
• specialization constants
• offscreen
• radialblur
• textoverlay
• particlefire (small particles only)
• scenerendering
• HDR
• instancing
• indirect drawing
• shadowmapping
• shadowmappingcascade
• shadowmappingomni
• skeletalanimation
• bloom
• deferred
• pbrbasic
• pbribl
• pbrtexture
• computeshaderparticles
• computeshader
• sphericalenvmapping
• gears
• distancefieldrendering
• vulkanscene
• imgui
• multisampling
• ssao
• parallaxmapping
• conservative rasterization

Partially working

• computecloth (bugs)
• pushconstants (push constant array members)

Almost/Not working

• multithreading (seconday buffers not implemented)

• dynamic uniform buffers (not implemented)

• occlusion queries (not implemented)

• deferred shadows (geometry shader support)

• n-body (bug in samples/UB/portability)

• raytracing (reading structs from byteaddressbuffer not supported)

• culllod (indirect drawing, num_workgroups builtin, ..)

• All tessellation and geometry samples