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Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++

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101 points NormalExisting | 2 comments | 12 Mar 25 03:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source

Been making this rasterizer engine in C++ for the past few months, now also adding ray-tracing functionality to the system.

Simply load a model or generate a mesh, add some lights, and render.

1. tikotus ◴[12 Mar 25 07:09 UTC] No.43340607[source]▶
Well done!

You mention the point is to make it portable. Does the project have any other goals, like, what kind of games could be made with it, how fast does it need to be? Do you have any performance metrics to share?

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2. NormalExisting ◴[12 Mar 25 13:18 UTC] No.43342936[source]▶
Performance boosts and metrics I do intend to look into, in particular acceleration structures (probably a BVH?) for the ray tracer and more optimized methods (e.g. a better scanline triangle fill and some clipping algos) for the rasterizer.

As for portability, not sure yet, this is meant to more or less be a rendering/animation engine that is lightweight, probably portable to embedded processors like ESP32s?