Moonshine

A spectral path tracer built with Zig + Vulkan

Salle de bain by nacimus, rendered with Moonshine

Features

Binaries
- offline -- a headless offline renderer
- online -- a real-time windowed renderer
- hydra -- a hydra render delegate
Light Transport
- Full spectral path tracing
- Direct light sampling with multiple importance sampling for all lights and materials
Lights
- 360° environment maps
  - Sampled via hierarchical warping
- Emissive meshes
  - Sampled according to power via 1D hierarchical warping
Materials
- Standard PBR with metallic + roughness
- Mirror
- Glass with dispersion
Homogeneous volumes

Dependencies

Build

zig (see version in CI)
DirectXShaderCompiler
For the online (real-time) renderer:
- For Linux (Ubuntu, similar on others):
  - For Wayland: wayland-protocols libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev
  - For X11: libxcursor-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev

Run

A GPU supporting Vulkan ray tracing

License

This project is licensed under the AGPL.