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A Vulkan compute shader implementation of a fictional retro GPU

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# RetroWarp

This is a straight forward Vulkan compute shader implementation of a fictional retro GPU.
The GPU is implemented with "pure" software rendering,
no fixed function units (rasterizer, ROP, texture units) of the target Vulkan GPU is used.

## Build

Standard CMake build. Should build on GCC, Clang and MSVC 2015+.

### Update submodules

This implementation makes use of my Granite engine. Make shure this is checked out before building.

```
git submodule update --init --recursive
```

## `viewer`

A simple test program which renders a glTF 2.0 file in real-time.
Don't expect good compatibility as all the meshes have to be translated into a `SWRenderableComponent`,
which implements the bare minimum required to load some models.
Some test models I've used are Sponza, Suzanne or Lantern from KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models.

**NOTE: Most likely, the application will be CPU bound as all vertex processing is done with unoptimized CPU code unless the "freeze" feature is used.**

### Controls

- WASD: Move camera around
- Hold right-click and move mouse: Rotate camera
- U: Freeze the frame, no vertex processing on CPU is done, which is useful for testing GPU bound scenario.
- C: Dumps the current frame to `retrowarp.dump` along with textures. This can be replayed and benchmarked in `dump-bench`.
- Space: Toggle vsync.

### Options

- `--width`: Control resolution. Maximum is 2048.
- `--height`: Control resolution. Maximum is 2048.
- `--tile-size`: Tile size, use 8 or 16.
- `--ubershader`: Use ubershader rather than split shader architecture.
- `--nosubgroup`: Disable all subgroup support.
- `--async-compute`: Enable async compute support.

## `dump-bench`

Takes a `.dump` file created by the `viewer` application and replays that frame over and over.
At the end, performance metrics are reported in time / iteration (i.e. frame).

### Options

- `--tile-size`: Tile size, use 8 or 16.
- `--ubershader`: Use ubershader rather than split shader architecture.
- `--nosubgroup`: Disable all subgroup support.
- `--async-compute`: Enable async compute support.
- `--iterations`: Number of iterations.

Resolution is specified in the dump as it contains post-triangle setup data and cannot be rescaled.

### Dataset

There is a sample dataset for benchmarking in `dataset/`.

## Implementation

### Triangle processing

Triangle processing, clipping and setup is implemented in `triangle_converter.hpp` and `triangle_converter.cpp`.

The implementation is not designed to be fast, the focus here was on the rasterization part.

### Rasterization

`rasterizer_gpu.hpp` and `rasterizer_gpu.cpp` implement the Vulkan side of things.
Shaders are contained in `assets/shaders`.

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