Point Light Shadows, Improved Texture Support, Mesh LODs, Anti-Aliasing, Improved Perf

• Real-time Point Light Shadows (up to 5)
• Mesh Level of Detail (LOD) System
• RenderPass Abstraction (rough)
• Mipped Textures
• PBR
  • Roughness, Metallic, Emissive texture support
  • Preset loading
• New Scenes
  • Light Test Scene (6)
  • LOD Test Scene (7)
  • PBR Scene (3)
• Supersample Anti-Aliasing

CPU & GPU Optimizations, Compute Shaders

• Compute Shader Pipeline
• Live Shader Editing (Launch Once - Edit Shader Source - Reload Shader)
• Compute-Optimized Blur Shaders
• View Frustum Culling
• Instanced Rendering
• Shader Permutations w/ Shader Binary Cache support

Data-Oriented Engine, Multi-threaded Tasking System, Model Loading w/ assimp, Loading Screen

• Refactored Scene, Engine and Renderer classes in favor of Data-Oriented Design
• Asynchronous Model Loading using assimp
• Sponza Scene & More Models
• Task-based Threading System
• Rendering: Directional Lights, Alpha Mask Textures
• Loading Screen & Multi-threaded Scene Loading
• App Icon
• Documentation Template / Bibliography

Automated Build, Logging, Text Rendering, CPU & GPU Profiler

• Text Rendering
• CPU Profiler
• GPU Profiler
• Build scripts (Python, Batch) & Automated Build (AppVeyor)
• Logging: Console and/or Log Files

PBR, Deferred Rendering & Multiple Scenes

• On-the-fly-switchable Forward/Deferred Rendering
• PBR: GGX-Smith BRDF
• Environment Mapping (Image-Based Lighting)
• PCF Soft Shadows
• Bloom
• SSAO w/ Gaussian Blur
• Custom Scene Files, Switchable/Reloadable Scenes

Simple Lighting, Texturing and Shader Reflection

• Vertex-Geometry-Pixel Shader Pipeline
• Shader Reflection
• Phong Lighting
• Simple Shadow Maping Algorithm
• Normal/Diffuse Maps
• Procedural Geometry: Cube, Sphere, Cylinder, Grid